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Whytecliffe Road South, PURLEY, CR8 2AZ

Route 127 from Tooting Broadway terminates at Purley, and Whytecliffe Road South is used as a stand for buses before they begin the return journey. Here Metrobus Omnidekkers 919 and 920 wait.

The car park is opposite the railway station Image on Whytecliffe Road South.

Metrobus Omnidekker 919 pulls in to the stop at Purley Station ready to begin its journey on Route 127 to Tooting Broadway

To what exact religion this small church subscribes is not clear from the outside, where a notice merely informs us that 'The Word of God will be preached here on the Lord's Day each week at 7.00 p.m.'

Whytecliffe Road is now divided into two sections with the suffix 'North' and 'South'. There is no through route for motor traffic but the two are linked by this short cycle path.

Route 411 which ran from West Croydon to Earlswood (Whitebushes) was one of the long London Country routes which used this road, but many, including the 411, have now disappeared, or been grievously truncated. The bus is opposite the then new Downlands Precint, a small group of shops around a passage that leads through to Purley High Street, and is also a short-cut to the station.

Purley Leisure Centre, the old J Sainsbury building to the left and multi storey car park behind.

Purley station was opened by the London & Brighton Railway on 12 July 1841 as Godstone Road. This was closed on 1 October 1847 by the London Brighton & South Coast Railway which had opened the Stoat's Nest station one mile away at Coulsdon. On 5 August 1856 the Caterham branch opened, joining the main line near the site of Godstone Road station. Three months later the LB&SCR reopened its station, this time calling it Caterham Junction. The station was renamed Purley on 1 October 1888 and was rebuilt in 1896 during the widening of the main line between Croydon and Coulsdon. It obtained its name from the Pirelea family who once owned the district. The change followed pressure from the Post Office who complained that mail for Caterham Junction was finishing up at Caterham. This view looks up the line towards East Croydon. A cement works is between the station and the steep cliff next to Warren Road. The lines immediately on the right are for trains on the Caterham and Tattenham Corner branches. Those on the left are for stopping trains. The fast lines are out of sight to the left. The weather was as miserable as it looks.