"Peter Masson" wrote in message


This sounds like Kingston-upon-Thames, though the dates don't appear to fit.
The branch from Twickenham to the Low Level station opened in 1863, and the
extension to New Malden, involving the building of a new high level station
opened in 1869. There were through trains from the North London Line, but
these were diverted from Fenchurch Street to Broad Street in 1865.
A Kingston to Ludgate Hill service (via Twickenham, Clapham Junction and
Factory Junction) appears to have run from 1866 to the end of 1868, when it
was replaced by a Richmond to Ludgate Hill service (via Gunnersbury,
Hammersmith Grove Road, Kensington Addison Road and Factory Junction) and a
Wimbledon to Ludgate Hill service (via Tooting, Tulse Hill and Herne Hill).

Peter

I stand corrected on the dates. According to June Sampson's "All Change"
(1985) the first Eastbound route ran "...through Norbiton and passed
under the Southampton main line at Malden, running parallel with its
south side to Wimbledon. From there it ran direct to Ludgate Hill,
passengers for Waterloo being obliged to change at Wimbledon".

Is that right? If so what did the Wimbledon to Ludgate Hill route go
via?

She also mentions the remains of a line from Kingston to Putney Bridge
(through the fields at Coombe near New Malden) which was started in
around 1886-88 but never completed, which "are still visible today, on
territory north of Kingston By-Pass"






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