St Helier railway station
St Helier railway station is in the London Borough of Merton in South London. The station is served by Thameslink, and is on the Sutton Loop Line. It is in London fare zone 4.
History
Parliamentary approval for a line from Wimbledon to Sutton was obtained by the Sutton Railway">Sutton, London">Sutton Railway in 1910 but work was delayed by the First World War. From the W&SR's inception, the District Railway was a shareholder of the company and had rights to run trains over the line when it was built. In the 1920s, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London planned, through its ownership of the DR and the City and South London Railway, to use part of the W&SR's route for an extension of the C&SLR to Sutton. The Southern Railway objected, and an agreement was reached that enabled the C&SLR to extend as far as Morden in exchange for the UERL giving up its rights over the W&SR route. The SR subsequently built the line, one of the last to be built in the London area. The station opened on 5 January 1930 when full services on the line were extended from South Merton.The original concrete station building has been demolished.
Services
All services at St Helier are operated by Thameslink using EMUs.The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
- 2 tph to
- 2 tph to