Dorking West railway station is in Dorking, Surrey, England. It is from , via , and is one of three stations serving the town, the others being and . Dorking West is on the North Downs Line between Dorking Deepdene and Gomshall. The station is managed by Great Western Railway, which also operates all trains serving it.

History The Reading, Guildford and Reigate Railway opened the station on 4 July 1849 as Dorking. From the outset it was leased and worked by the South Eastern Railway, which absorbed the RG&RR in 1852.

In 1867 the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway opened a line from to Dorking, with its own Dorking railway station. The new Southern Railway renamed both stations in 1923, with the original Dorking station becoming Dorking Town. In 1987, Network SouthEast renamed it to the current Dorking West.

Facilities The station has two platforms, which can each accommodate a five-coach train. It is unstaffed. The station has help points, live departure screens and cycle storage.

Passenger volume Although it is the least used of the three Dorking stations (as low as 16 passengers/year in 2011–12), the official rail passenger usage data is misleading because most tickets are issued to/from "Dorking Stations", rather than Dorking West specifically. The figures for that year were widely rejected by local residents; First Great Western, then-operator of services at the station, blamed an anomaly on the ticket recording system. +Passenger volume at Dorking West2004–052005–062006–072007–082008–092009–102010–112011–122012–132013–142014–152015–162016–172017–182018–192019–202020–212021–222022–232023–242024–25Entries and exits294079521041,810221655,77456,94862,30858,87755,99562,07161,92857,06612,64833,27833,45236,78240,162Interchanges00000000001,6391,0707444824793641002052491150 The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

All services at Dorking West are operated by Great Western Railway using and DMUs.

The typical off-peak service is one train every two hours in each direction between via and . During the peak hours, the service is increased to one train per hour in each direction.

On Sundays, eastbound services at the station run only as far as .

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