Effingham Junction  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Effingham,Borough of Guildford England | ||||
| Grid reference | TQ102558 | ||||
| Managed by | South Western Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | EFF | ||||
| Classification | DfT category D | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1888 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2020/21 |  47,852 | ||||
| Interchange | 2,232 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.150 million | ||||
| Interchange | 6,366 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.185 million | ||||
| Interchange | 10,515 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.211 million | ||||
| Interchange | 12,918 | ||||
| 2024/25 | 0.243 million | ||||
| Interchange | 13,969 | ||||
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Effingham Junction railway station is just north of the far northern border of the village ofEffingham, closer to the centre ofEast Horsley, homes of which it borders, inSurrey,England. Although the station takes its name from the former settlement, and the immediate vicinity has itself become known as Effingham Junction, it is actually in the latter. Effingham Junction is at the junction of theNew Guildford Line, fromLondon Waterloo toGuildford, and the line fromLeatherhead, which carries trains from Waterloo viaEpsom. It is 21 miles 10 chains (34.0 km) down the line from Waterloo.
TheLondon and South Western Railway opened the station on 2 July 1888,[1] three years after completing the two routes that serve it.[2] Both routes were subsequently electrified by theSouthern Railway in 1925 and for many years it served as the terminus for trains from the Epsom direction, with a seven-road carriage shed south of the station provided by the SR to allow empty EMU sets to be reversed and stabled clear of the main running lines.[3] This still stands, though it ceased to be used for carriage storage in 1993 – it is now used byColas Rail as a maintenance base for Network Rail MPVs and track machines.[citation needed]
The station is managed and primarily serviced bySouth Western Railway, thoughSouthern also provided some peak period services. The latter are a holdover from theBritish Rail-era timetables of the 1970s and 1980s, when the Epsom line had regular services to London Victoria as well as to Waterloo.[4] It was also served in the late 1980s/early 1990s byThameslink services betweenLuton and Guildford viaHerne Hill andWest Croydon, but these ended in 1994 shortly before theprivatisation of the UK railway network.[5]
The station has aticket office which is open during weekday and Saturday mornings only. At other times, there are self-serviceticket machines available for ticket purchases. There are also toilets at the station which are open when the station is staffed. Both platforms have covered seating areas,information screens andhelp points.[6]
There is a chargeablecar park and largebicycle storage facility located at the station. Step-free access is available to theGuildford bound platform only.
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All services at Effingham Junction are operated bySouth Western Railway using a mix ofClass 455,Class 450, andClass 701EMUs.[7]
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[8]
Additional services run via Epsom during the peak hours, increasing the service to 4 tph in each direction.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Cobham & Stoke d'Abernon | South Western Railway | Horsley | ||
| Bookham | South Western Railway | |||
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