Chessington South
View from road overbridge at Chessington South with 455s 5718 and 5872 departing with the 14.36 service to Waterloo, on 22nd October 2022. The station, originally to have been called Chessington Grange, was opened on 28th May 1939 and intended as a through station and the never used platform meant for up trains from the uncompleted Leatherhead extension (with never built stations at Malden Rushett and Leatherhead North) is on the left. An intended footbridge was never built. The tracks continue beyond the south side of the road bridge on the projected Leatherhead extension but only a few yards were built. Other stations on this branch are on embankments but the terminus is in a cutting. NB: This is not and never has been part of the LPTB, it was the last line in the UK to be opened by the post-Grouping Southern Railway immediately before the start of World War Two.
Location: Chessington South
Original line: Chessington South Branch (London Passenger Transport Board)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Class 455 units, SouthWest Trains, 2013-2022
Date: 22/10/2022
Image number: 83089
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