"N Cook" wrote in message ...
"Peter Lawrence" wrote in message
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On 7 Nov 2004 00:35:21 -0800, (Matthew
Church) wrote:

[ukls and uktl added]

It is still standing. You can't see it easily from the road but you
can see it from the train, used nowadays as stores for shops in Upper
High Street PKA Station Road.

Click:

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/gazetteer/...urr341gazA.htm

...then click "Epsom" then "Enlarge map" to bring up the 1879 map of
Epsom with the two old stations before they merged. I had one of my
very first pints in the Railway Hotel (Youngs) and would love to see a
picture of it. Likewise the goods yard to the east of the old station,
now houses, don't seem to be shown on the 1879 map, they seemed to my
youthful eyes to have a station building in them, what was that?

Anyone got any links to any pictures?

The Middleton Press book 'West Croydon to Epsom' has a fine
collection of pictures of the old station and its surroundings.

The goods yard is shown on the old maps; the building therein was a
goods shed but seems to have been built after the map was published.
Incidentally there was also a loco shed, on the other side of the
line, which survived as a store (in Longhursts timber yard) until the
1970s.

Interesting that the name 'Station Road' apparently survives about 80
years after it was renamed!


--
Peter Lawrence

Anything about the branch-line ? that served the ring of mental hospitals
West Park,Longrove,St Ebba's etc.
Still there 10 years ago the only remainder I'm aware of, at the end of Hook
Rd near
the Danetree Rd end farthest from Epsom in the fields unless now built on is
a pair of bridge parrapets for this long filled in railway cutting.

Some W. Eweell , Danetree Rd School recollections
http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/danetree.htm

Not a lot to see. Highway House is situated where the junction was.
The right-of-way behind Chessington Rd has mainly been sold off (and
forms part of people's back gardens). The bridge at Hook Rd is of
course still there, and carrying on for a fair bit beyond that is a
footpath on the former line through Horton Country Park (it's pretty,
but it's not really the interesting bit). All the hospitals except for
West Park and St Ebba's are now naff housing estates.