Earlsfield
Earlsfield Location of Earlsfield in Greater London
Location	Earlsfield
Local authority	London Borough of Wandsworth
Managed by	South Western Railway
Station code	EAD
DfT category	D
Number of platforms	3 (facing 4 tracks)
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	3
National Rail annual entry and exit
2018–19	6.879 million[1]
2019–20	6.519 million[1]
2020–21	1.784 million[1]
2021–22	4.184 million[1]
2022–23	4.734 million[1]
Key dates
1 April 1884	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°26′33″N 0°11′16″W / 51.4424°N 0.1877°W / 51.4424; -0.1877
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Earlsfield railway station is on the South West Main Line serving Earlsfield in the London Borough of Wandsworth, South London. The station is in Travelcard Zone 3, 5 miles 46 chains (9.0 km) from London Waterloo and situated between Clapham Junction and Wimbledon. It is operated by South Western Railway, as are all the trains serving it.

History

The station was named after a large nearby Victorian residence, Earlsfield, now demolished. This was owned by the Davis family, who also owned the land required for the station, and one of the conditions of sale was that the station would be named after their house.^[2]

Opened by the London and South Western Railway on 1 April 1884, it became part of the Southern Railway during the grouping of 1923. The station then passed 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 Rail.

In 2012 Network Rail undertook a major revamp of the station. The main entrance was reconstructed and lifts were installed for each platform as part of a £5.6 million scheme to improve facilities and accessibility, including the provision of step-free access.^[3][4]

Services

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

• 12 tph (trains per hour) to London Waterloo via Clapham Junction
• 3 tph to Guildford, 2 via Surbiton and Cobham and 1 via Epsom and Leatherhead
• 2 tph to Chessington South
• 1 tph to Dorking via Epsom
• 2 tph to Hampton Court
• 2 tph to Woking
• 2 tph to London Waterloo via Kingston and Richmond

Trains to Clapham Junction, Vauxhall and London Waterloo depart from platform 2; trains going away from London depart from platform 3.

Platform 1 is adjacent to the fast down line out of London, but none of the fast services operated by South Western Railway call at Earlsfield, so this platform is only used occasionally when the line served by platform 3 is unavailable. As a safety measure, access to this platform is only possible through sliding gates in the security fencing installed in 2014.^[5]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Clapham Junction		South Western Railway South West Main Line		Wimbledon

Connections

London Buses Routes 44, 77, 270 and Night Route N44 serve the station.^[6]