Earlsfield railway station (Earlsfield) is in the
London Borough of Wandsworth in south London. The station, which is in
Travelcard Zone 3, is operated by South West Trains, as are all the trains
serving it. The name 'Earlsfield' originates from the name of the large
Victorian residence formerly on the present site of the station. When the
site was sold by the Davis family to the railway company one of the
conditions of sale was that the station would be called 'Earlsfield'.
Opened by the London and South Western Railway it became part of the
Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to
the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by
Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways.
The typical off-peak service from the station is:
16tph (trains per hour) to London Waterloo (~12 mins)
via Clapham Junction
4tph to Guildford, 2 via Cobham and 2 via Epsom
2tph to Chessington South
2tph to Dorking
2tph to Hampton Court
2tph to Shepperton
2tph to Woking
2tph to Waterloo via Kingston and Richmond
Trains to Clapham Junction/Waterloo depart from
platform 2; trains going away from London depart from platform 3. Platform 1
is adjacent to the fast, generally non-stopping, down line out of London, so
is only used occasionally when the line served by platform 3 is unavailable.
On Monday 21 June 2010, Sadiq Khan, MP for Tooting, welcomed plans for a
major refurbishment for the station. Network Rail released more details on
Monday 20 June 2011.
The station underwent major refurbishment, which was largely complete by the
end of 2012. The main entrance was thoroughly reconstructed and there are
now lifts for each platform.