Epsom Station Traditional Cache
fossunited: Sorry folks, having found time to go back out to it, it is gone. Because I know I can't upkeep this, and odds are that it going when people come to clean, I thought it was best to archive it. Its a shame, because it's an excellent little area and fits my favorite requirements for needing stealth, but it just won't last in the long run I am guessing, so wiht much regret it is now gone.
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Part of the Epsom Urban series, this is a micro hidden in what can be a high pedestrian area near the train station. There is a busy road, and often many people so be careful in assessing where muggles may be.
The initial plan for this cache was to sit almost directly outside the station entrance, and I had designed a special cache to hide, but it turns out that the metal I wanted to attach it to wasn't magnetic, so instead you will get a slightly less difficult cache
This is the site of the second railway to open for Epsom, on 4 April 1859. It was the London and South Western Railway's (LSWR) line from Raynes Park to a station on the site of the present Epsom station, with trains from Waterloo. the first one opened in 1847, and ran from Victoria or london Bridge station, and finished near upper high street (the LBSCR line)
In 1860 a line opened from Epsom to Dorking and Effingham Junction (via Leatherhead), with a link line built from Epsom's LBSCR station to the LSWR station. However the LBSCR trains ran through the LSWR station without stopping. The line from Epsom to Leatherhead was owned jointly by both railway companies. The line continuing from Leatherhead to Dorking (and eventually to Horsham) was owned by the LBSCR, and the line from Leatherhead to Effingham Junction (which joined the line from Surbiton to Guildford via Claygate) was owned by the LSWR. This is distinction still applies today, and you will normally find Southern Rail services travelling to Dorking, and the Southwestern Services travelling through to Guildford on that Effingham junction line.
On 1 January 1923, the LBSCR and LSWR companies were absorbed (along with other railways in Kent) into Southern Railway. This new railway company was split into three divisions: - Central (the ex-LBSCR lines); South Eastern (the Kent lines); and South Western (the ex-LSWR lines), with the ex-LBSCR station being renamed Epsom Town.
In 1925, the lines were electified, and on the 3 March 1929 a new combined station was opened at Epsom on the site of the former LSWR station. The former LBSCR station closed, and the services that had called there, called at the new station instead.
Since then, not a lot has changed, When the railways were privatised, two of the newly created Train Operating Companies served Epsom: Network South Central for the ex LBSCR lines (which has had various names, but is now called Southern) and South West Trains for the ex LSWR lines.
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