Disused Stations: Epsom Downs Station

Epsom Downs Station Gallery 3: July 1979 - December 2007

Looking south-west along platform 2 (formerly platform 5) in July 1979. A 4-SUB awaits departure for Victoria from platform 1.
Photo by Neil Clifton. Reproduced from Geograph under creative commons licence

A 4-SUB awaits departure for Victoria from platform 1 at Epsom Downs station in July 1979.
Photo by Neil Clifton. Reproduced from Geograph under creative commons licence

Epsom Down station looking north-east on a cold 23 December 1981. The burnt out shell of the signal box which was destroyed in a fire a few weeks earlier is seen in the distance on the left. As a result of the fire only a shuttle service now runs between Epsom Downs and Sutton.
Photo by Alan Young

Epsom Downs station looking south-west towards the station concourse in December 1981. The BR Southern Region signage has now been replaced by bland Corporate Identity signage fitted in the Southern Region’s favoured ‘goalpost’ style.

Photo by Alan Young

Looking north-east from the end of platforms 1 and 2 at Epsom Downs station in June 1983. Colour light signals have now reached Epsom Downs although the semaphore signal post at the end of the platform is still standing. The signal box has now been demolished. The box was sited beyond the brick structure seen on the left. The brick base of the water tower is partially hidden by trees on the right.
Photo by Martin Snow

The brick base of the SB&SCR water tower was still standing on the approach to the station in June 1983. The tower was built to a standard LB&SCR design; a similar tower stood at Sutton.
Photo by Martin Snow

Epsom Downs station forecourt in June 1983. The stationmaster's house, painted white and seen on the right, was empty and boarded up in the 1970s. It now has a tenant: Crandyke Services Ltd moved into the building in November 1977.
Photo by Martin Snow

British Rail Class 415 (4EPB) EMU no. 5351 is seen at Epsom Downs station in April 1984 with the 17:39 service to Victoria.

Photo by Phil Richards, reproduced from Wikipedia under creative commons licence

4-EPB EMU 5405 waits at Epsom Downs station in July 1985.
Photo by Jonathan Hazan from his Flickr photostream

A class 455 EMU is seen at Epsom Downs station on 30 December 1988, six weeks before closure. By this time only platform 2 was in use, the track into platform 1 having been lifted. A surveyor’s post is noted on the trackbed. The station would be demolished within days of closure.
Photo by Alan Young

Looking south-west at the new single platform at Epsom Downs station in May 2004.
Photo by Nick Catford

Looking south-west along the new single platform at Epsom Downs station in May 2004.

Photo by Nick Catford

A class 455 EMU 455832 wait to depart from Epsom Downs station in December 2007. The Epsom Downs line is now self-contained in that there are no junctions between here and the platforms that it uses at Sutton; the line could be easily worked with trams.

Photo by Neil Clifton. Reproduced from Geograph under creative commons licence

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