Popular Culture References
The station was used as the filming location from which the title character caught his train each morning (with decreasing punctuality) in the British sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Although Reggie's home town in the series was called Climthorpe, a panning shot of the front of the station in the first episode shows him walking into Norbiton station. (The area remains largely unchanged, with the Frederick W. Paine funeral parlour and the zebra crossing across Coombe Road still in place, although a small number of buildings in front of the main station entrance have since been demolished.) David Nobbs may have thought of Climthorpe as near Norbiton, since various other stations between New Malden and London are named in Reggie's various excuses to explain his poor punctuality .
The station also appeared briefly in a 1971 episode of the Rodney Bewes sitcom Dear Mother...Love Albert.
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Malden | South West Trains |
Kingston | ||
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