Off Peak Service
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
- 8 direct to Waterloo (South West Trains)
- 2 fast to Clapham Junction
- 2 fast to Putney, Clapham Junction and Vauxhall
- 4 all stations
- 8 direct from Waterloo (South West Trains)
- 2 to Reading
- 2 to Windsor & Eton Riverside
- 2 indirectly returning to Waterloo via Hounslow & Brentford
- 2 indirectly returning to Waterloo via Kingston
- 1 Peak service an hour to Ascot/Camberley and Aldershot.
- 4 to Stratford (London Overground)
- 6 to Upminster via Tower Hill (District Line)
The Heathrow Airtrack proposal of the October 2008 consultation, would have two more fast trains per hour to Waterloo and two trains per hour to Heathrow Terminal 5 station from 2014. Although vociferous objection arises about possible level-crossing congestion on the Chertsey line, the effect of 20 trains per hour through the four crossings between Richmond and Barnes, where even now five trains may pass at one closure, is muted
Read more about this topic: Richmond Station (London)
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