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Hampton Court railway station is a Railway Station in the Elmbridge district of Surrey .

The station also serves Hampton Court Palace in the London Borough Of Richmond Upon Thames , and for the purposes of fare charging it is included in Travelcard Zone 6 despite being beyond the Greater London boundary; the station lies just across the River Thames from Hampton Court Park .

It is the terminus of a short branch line with a junction on the South Western Main Line west of Surbiton . The only other station on the branch is Thames Ditton . The branch was opened on 1 February 1849 and today it is operated by South West Trains ,

The typical off-peak service from the station is two trains per hour to London Waterloo : trains take 35 minutes for the 13.3 miles (21km) from there. Trains use both faces of the former Down platform. The station buildings, in "Jacobean" style, have ornately-decorated windows and doors. The branch has speed restrictions of 40mph on the Up line and 45 mph on the Down.


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