Footbridge near site of former Horley Station
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Footbridge near site of former Horley Station
Image: © Ian Capper Taken: 25 Jul 2009
This footbridge crosses the London to Brighton railway line and links High Street (in the foreground, with Yattendon Road off to the left) and Station Road. Until 1903, the road (then called Station Road throughout) crossed the railway at a level crossing, with the 1841 Horley Station immediately to the south. The quadrupling of the railway in 1905 led to the crossing being severed and replaced by a subway, with this footbridge being added later. At the same time the station was moved around 300 metres to the south, with a station building on a new Victoria Road overbridge (this too had previously crossed the railway at a level crossing), as seen in the background in Image
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Image Location
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51.173297
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