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The Chessington Branch Line is a short National Rail railway line in England, mostly in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, from Motspur Park to Chessington South. ==History== The branch, double track and electrified on the DC third rail system (660V at the time of its construction) was the last line built by the Southern Railway. It was to serve housing development south of Surbiton and to form a duplicate line to . It was opened on 29 May 1938 from Motspur Park to , with an intermediate station at , and extended on 28 May 1939 to and . All the stations on the line were of concrete in an Art Deco style, typical of the period. Work to extend beyond Chessington was halted by the outbreak of World War II, with track laid beyond Chessington South as far as Chalky Lane, and preparatory works continuing further south. This included an embankment built by the Royal Engineers as a military exercise from Chalky Lane as far south as Chessington Wood, close to where the next station at Malden Rushett would have been built. A further station at Ashtead was also planned. After the war green belt legislation put a stop to any resumption. A goods yard south of Chessington South was used as a coal concentration depot from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1980s. The goods yard and the of trackbed towards Malden Rushett are overgrown by trees. As a result of the truncation, only one platform at Chessington South has ever seen regular use. It was originally intended to name Chessington North station ''Chessington Court'' and Chessington South station ''Chessington Grange''.〔Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, ''Wimbledon to Epsom'', Middleton Press, Midhurst, 1995, ISBN 1 873 793 62 6〕 The line was mainly constructed on embankment with short distances in cuttings and several bridges. A viaduct crosses the Hogsmill River near Malden Manor. 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「Chessington Branch Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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