Leatherhead station

Leatherhead railway station is in Surrey, England. It is managed by Southern, which provides train services along with South West Trains.It is at the junction of the Sutton & Mole Valley Line with the branch to Effingham Junction on the New Guildford Line.HistoryThe present station, a grade II listed building, is one of three that have served Leatherhead. Both the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) and the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) had plans to build a railway line into Leatherhead, and an agreement was reached that one would build the line on condition that the other was granted equal running rights over it. However, each company built its own station a few hundred yards apart from each other: the LBSCR on its line to Dorking and Horsham and the LSWR on its line to Guildford. The lines through the two stations met a short distance to the north, and the joint line continued towards Epsom.Following the Grouping of 1923, the LBSCR and LSWR both became part of the Southern Railway, and having two stations was deemed unnecessary, so in 1927 the LSWR line from Guildford was diverted to join the LBSCR line to the south of the LBSCR station.