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Balcombe Road, HORLEY, RH6 9AA

Cottages to the south of the Station Road/Smallfield Road/Balcombe Road crossroads.

Viewed from the footbridge in Image, this eastern section of the original much longer Station Road has retained its name, unlike the western section, now High Street (see Image). The shops on the right can be seen to have originally been houses (built in the late 1890s/early 1900s), with shop fronts added later.

Looking along Station Road from where it meets Balcombe Road.

Former Lloyds Bank at the junction of Station Road and Balcombe Road.

This footbridge crosses the London to Brighton railway line and links Station Road (in the foreground, turning into Station Approach on the left) and High Street (beyond the bridge). 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 (the entrance to which can be seen to the left of the photo), 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

Looking south from the footbridge in Image On the left can be seen the subway built to replace the level crossing at this site after Station Road was severed when the London to Brighton railway was quadrupled in 1903. The original 1841 Horley Station was here, before being replaced in 1905 by the current one, seen in the background. A Southern Class 377 Electrostar is approaching on the up fast line on a London bound service. In the background, another London bound Class 377 waits in the station on the up slow line, while a Gatwick Airport bound Class 460 Gatwick Express can just be seen having passed through the station on the down fast line (the left hand track).