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Leatherhead railway station is in Surrey, England. It is managed by Southern which provides certain train services and South West Trains provides services to other destinations. The long-standing reason for Leatherhead's two train operating companies is that its station is at the junction of the Victoria or London Bridge-terminating ''Horsham via Dorking'' Line with the Waterloo-terminating ''via Epsom'' route of the New Guildford Line. Both lines are only briefly combined corollaries to the main lines to major towns however were from 1923 until 1996 in the same ownership. ==History== The first station in Leatherhead was the terminus of the short-lived Epsom and Leatherhead Railway Company (ELR), opened on 1 February 1859, a company which was bought by the London and South Western Railway. In 1867 the somewhat winding route from London by Epsom, Dorking, and Horsham to Portsmouth was completed by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company (LBSCR) rendering redundant its running rights over part of the London and South Western Railway line (that is from Epsom to Leatherhead) by jointly acquiring a section of the line, but with a separate station at 'Letherhead'.〔('Parishes: Leatherhead' ) in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H E Malden (London, 1911), pp. 293-301 accessed 15 November 2015.〕 Leatherhead being due south-south-west from London, both companies, the LSWR and LBSCR, built their own Leatherhead station a few hundred yards apart from each other in the same way as Epsom to the north. The two stations were very close but south of the original junction and joint section of track which as in the present day leads towards Epsom. The first LSWR station was replaced by one to the near south-west of the LBSCR station, on 2 February 1885 enabling its trains to terminate there if the company so chose. It is now demolished and its spur redirected in 1927 (see below).〔 In 1887 the LSWR linked up to its New Guildford Line () west. Under the grouping of 1923, the LBSCR and LSWR became part of (the) Southern Railway and thereby the rivalry of two stations within a few hundred metres made historic. The duplication of stops in the town centre ended in 1927 when the line from Guildford was diverted to join the LBSCR line to the south of the LBSCR station, entailing a new bridge across the River Mole but releasing some land. The LBSCR station, opened on 1 March 1867 is the one that survives〔〔(britishlistedbuildings.co.uk Leatherhead Station ) British Listed Buildings (british listed buildings.co.uk)〕 The stationmaster's house, an integral part of the main building, is boarded up along with the building on platform 2. The LSWR station closed on 10 July 1927,〔 and fell into greater and greater disrepair, and the old line was finally removed in the 1980s. All that remains are part of the steps up from road level to platform level. In the 1930s, it was planned to extend the new line to Chessington to Leatherhead. However, World War II caused this to be put on hold, and a subsequent protection order on Ashtead Common meant that this was never built. The land reserved through North Leatherhead for the railway has become part of the course of the M25 motorway. Ticket barriers were installed in 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leatherhead railway station is in Surrey, England. It is managed by Southern which provides certain train services and South West Trains provides services to other destinations. The long-standing reason for Leatherhead's two train operating companies is that its station is at the junction of the Victoria or London Bridge-terminating ''Horsham via Dorking'' Line with the Waterloo-terminating ''via Epsom'' route of the New Guildford Line. Both lines are only briefly combined corollaries to the main lines to major towns however were from 1923 until 1996 in the same ownership.==History==The first station in Leatherhead was the terminus of the short-lived Epsom and Leatherhead Railway Company (ELR), opened on 1 February 1859, a company which was bought by the London and South Western Railway. In 1867 the somewhat winding route from London by Epsom, Dorking, and Horsham to Portsmouth was completed by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company (LBSCR) rendering redundant its running rights over part of the London and South Western Railway line (that is from Epsom to Leatherhead) by jointly acquiring a section of the line, but with a separate station at 'Letherhead'.('Parishes: Leatherhead' ) in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H E Malden (London, 1911), pp. 293-301 accessed 15 November 2015. Leatherhead being due south-south-west from London, both companies, the LSWR and LBSCR, built their own Leatherhead station a few hundred yards apart from each other in the same way as Epsom to the north. The two stations were very close but south of the original junction and joint section of track which as in the present day leads towards Epsom. The first LSWR station was replaced by one to the near south-west of the LBSCR station, on 2 February 1885 enabling its trains to terminate there if the company so chose. It is now demolished and its spur redirected in 1927 (see below). In 1887 the LSWR linked up to its New Guildford Line () west.Under the grouping of 1923, the LBSCR and LSWR became part of (the) Southern Railway and thereby the rivalry of two stations within a few hundred metres made historic. The duplication of stops in the town centre ended in 1927 when the line from Guildford was diverted to join the LBSCR line to the south of the LBSCR station, entailing a new bridge across the River Mole but releasing some land.The LBSCR station, opened on 1 March 1867 is the one that survives(britishlistedbuildings.co.uk Leatherhead Station ) British Listed Buildings (british listed buildings.co.uk) The stationmaster's house, an integral part of the main building, is boarded up along with the building on platform 2. The LSWR station closed on 10 July 1927, and fell into greater and greater disrepair, and the old line was finally removed in the 1980s. All that remains are part of the steps up from road level to platform level.In the 1930s, it was planned to extend the new line to Chessington to Leatherhead. However, World War II caused this to be put on hold, and a subsequent protection order on Ashtead Common meant that this was never built. The land reserved through North Leatherhead for the railway has become part of the course of the M25 motorway.Ticket barriers were installed in 2011.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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