Leatherhead railway station

Leatherhead railway station is in Surrey, England. It is jointly managed by Southern and South Western Railway, both of which provide train services at the station.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.HistoryThe first station in Leatherhead was the terminus of the short-lived Epsom and Leatherhead Railway Company, 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 rendering redundant its running rights over part of the London and South Western Railway line by jointly acquiring a section of the line, but with a separate station at 'Letherhead'. 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 805m to the near south-west of the LBSCR station, on 2 February 1885 with the opening of the line to Bookham and Effingham Junction and the Guildford New Line from Surbiton via Cobham, linking Leatherhead and Guildford by rail for the first time. It is now demolished and its spur redirected in 1927 .