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Elder Close, EPSOM, KT17 3DD

Pretty typical of the many residential streets in this outer suburban area - though this links the A240 at Drift Bridge with Epsom Downs, and thus carries a certain amount of through traffic. The view is NNE from a point not many yards north of Mimosa Close (newly built, and not yet plotted by the OS at the time of writing).

c1930s housing in Fir Tree Road, although the road itself significantly predates any development, being shown on the 1871 1:10,000 map.

c1930s housing in Fir Tree Road, although the road itself significantly predates any development, being shown on the 1871 1:10,000 map.

Cul-de-sac off Fir Tree Road, completed in 2017.

Originally opened in 1865. At one time, the station had nine platforms; now there is just one, with Tattenham Corner station being closer to the race course.

Pathfinders Tours' Buffer Puffer 11.1 charter which used Direct Rail Services' Class 20/3 diesel locomotives numbers 20303 and 20304 (top and tailed) prepares to return to Sutton (Surrey) with Mark 1 coach number W4998 in the image.

Epsom Downs station is just a shadow of what it once was. Opened in 1865, it had nine platform faces, most of which were only used on race days. Tattenham Corner station is more convenient as it is much closer to the racecourse at Epsom Downs and consequently, as race traffic declined, there was no need for all the platforms at Epsom Downs station. Eventually only one island platform remained and then in 1989 the station was demolished to make way for a new housing estate and a new single platform station was built some 300 yards to the north-east. For more information and photographs see http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/e/epsom_downs/index.shtml During the day now there is an hourly service along the single track branch to Sutton and then onwards via West Croydon to Victoria.

This shows the single platform looking back in the London direction. The Epsom Downs line is self-contained in that there are no junctions between here and the platforms it uses at Sutton. So the line could be easily worked with trams.

Now the booking office is gone this is the way in.

The original Epsom Downs station (see Image) was situated several hundred yards west of this one, nearer to the racecourse which it was intended to serve, and had generous accommodation for the expected crowds of racegoers. But in 1989 the tracks were cut back about a quarter of a mile to this new single-platform station With the track now singled almost all the way back to Sutton, only an hourly service is provided. Race traffic has now entirely gone, and very few passengers use the station.