Sanderstead railway station
Sanderstead 
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Sanderstead Station
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 Sanderstead
Location of Sanderstead in Greater London
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| Location | Sanderstead |
| Local authority | London Borough of Croydon |
| Managed by | Southern |
| Station code | SNR |
| DfT category | D |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Fare zone | 6 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
 1.042 million |
| 2012–13 |
 1.050 million |
| 2013–14 |
1.141 million |
| 2014–15 |
1.226 million |
| 2015–16 |
1.102 million |
| Key dates | |
| 10 March 1884 | Opened |
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| WGS84 | 51°20′54″N 0°05′38″W / 51.3484°N 0.094°WCoordinates: 51°20′54″N 0°05′38″W / 51.3484°N 0.094°W |
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Sanderstead railway station is in the London Borough of Croydon, 1 mile (1.6 km) from Sanderstead village. It is in Travelcard Zone 6. The station is operated by Southern, is served by Oxted Line trains from East Grinstead and Uckfield to London Bridge and Victoria.
On the up (London-bound) platform is a ticket office, staffed for most of the day, and a self-service ticket machine is outside the station on the up side: there is no PERTIS (Permit to travel) machine. Purley Oaks, also in Travelcard Zone 6, is nearby.
The station was opened on 10 March 1884 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and the South Eastern Railway with their line between Croydon and East Grinstead. The population was around 300, rising to 534 by 1901. In the mid-1920s, the Southern Heights Light Railway was proposed, which would have left the Oxted line south east of the station and finished at Orpington. An extensive bookstall was on the up platform, and a signal box on the down platform.
The building was weather-boarded, cheap to construct but requiring regular maintenance. It was destroyed by fire in June 1986 and a new brick building opened in September 1987. The signal box closed on 2 November 1985 and was demolished in August 1987. The line from Selsdon to Sanderstead was electrified on 30 September 1935, and electrification of the South Croydon-Selsdon and Sanderstead-East Grinstead sections of line was approved by BR in the early 1980s: South Croydon-Selsdon was electrified in 1984 using some redundant materials from the closed Woodside-Selsdon line, to East Grinstead in October 1987.
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