St Helier railway station

This article is about the station in London. For the former stations on Jersey in the Channel Islands, see St Helier (Weighbridge) railway station and St Helier (Snow Hill) railway station.

St Helier
St Helier Location of St Helier in Greater London
Location	St Helier
Local authority	London Borough of Merton
Managed by	Thameslink
Station code	SIH
DfT category	F1
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2020–21	70,548 [1]
2021–22	0.129 million [1]
2022–23	0.140 million [1]
2023–24	0.146 million [1]
2024–25	0.157 million [1]
Key dates
5 January 1930	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°23′24″N0°11′55″W / 51.3901°N 0.1985°W / 51.3901; -0.1985
London transportportal

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 Wimbledon and Sutton Railway (W&SR) in 1910 but work was delayed by the First World War. ^[2] From the W&SR's inception, the District Railway (DR) 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 (UERL, precursor of London Underground) planned, through its ownership of the DR and the City and South London Railway (C&SLR, now the Northern line), to use part of the W&SR's route for an extension of the C&SLR to Sutton. ^[2] The Southern Railway (SR) 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. ^[2]

The original concrete station building has been demolished.^{[ citation needed ]}

Services

All services at St Helier are operated by Thameslink using Class 700 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: ^[3]

• 2 tph to St Albans City
• 2 tph to Sutton

A small number of late evening services are extended beyond St Albans City to Bedford, and daytime services on Sundays are extended to Luton.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Morden South		Thameslink Sutton Loop Line		Sutton Common

Connections

London Buses routes 154 and S2 serve the station.

References

1. "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Archived from the original on 19 June 2025. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
2. Jackson, Alan A. (December 1966). "The Wimbledon & Sutton Railway – A late arrival on the South London suburban scene" (PDF). The Railway Magazine. pp. 675–680. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
3. Table 173, 179 National Rail timetable, May 2022

External links

• Train times and station information for St Helier railway station from National Rail