Former station building at Tadworth - now a restaurant

Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 18 Jan 2018

The South Eastern & Chatham Railway reached Tadworth quite late in railway history, in 1900. The line runs in a deep cutting, and this building stands on a bridge that crosses it. The structure seems of a generous size for this location in the outermost suburbs. Plainly it housed more than just the booking hall - perhaps a refreshment room, perhaps a parcels office. Waiting rooms - I imagine - would be at platform level, a good many feet below. Current access to the platforms is by means of long ramps (to accommodate e.g. push-chairs and wheelchairs) - and these by-pass the old station building. As built in 1900, the platforms were most likely reached by way of steep staircases descending directly from the booking hall. Anyway, after years of disuse http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3623434 the building now looks quite spruce and is occupied by a restaurant - the 'bridge grill&meze&bar' (yes, all lower case). Customers were coming and going, even on a quiet January afternoon.

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