Chessington South railway station

The station was built to a design of Southern Railway architect James Robb Scott and opened on 28 May 1939. It was intended as a through station on the line being built to Leatherhead. However, construction of the line stopped, never to be resumed, upon the outbreak of World War II and the up platform was never used for passenger trains, although the track was used for stabling out of service trains during off-peak times. There was a goods yard beyond the passenger station. After the continuation to Leatherhead was abandoned, part of line south of the station was used from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1980s for a coal concentration depot. The line and the sidings to the coal depot were unused and hidden by trees for many years, but in 2021 the land was cleared and tracks relaid for an aggregates depot.

The ticket office is at track level. There are two automated ticket machine at street level.

In 2019 a ramp was added to the station, providing step-free access to the single platform from street level.[2]

The disused platform is inaccessible, given there is no footbridge connecting the platforms. It remains abandoned as surplus to requirements, as only two trains depart each hour.

South Western Railway operates all services. The service interval is 30 minutes during both peak and off-peak hours. All trains run to or from London Waterloo, calling at all intermediate stations (except Queenstown Road which has platforms on only the Waterloo-Reading line).[3] The journey to Waterloo takes 37 minutes.

Services typically use Class 455 EMUs, although a Class 450 or Class 707 is used on occasion.
Until 2022, Class 456 trains were often attached to Class 455 units to form ten carriage trains, but these were withdrawn on 17 January with the introduction of a new timetable.[4]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Chessington North		South Western Railway Chessington Branch Line		Terminus
Future development
Preceding station	Crossrail			Following station
Terminus		Crossrail 2		Chessington North towards New Southgate or Broxbourne

London Buses routes 71 and 467 serve the station during the day, and route N65 at night.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chessington South railway station.

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  Looking north, with unit 5734 awaiting return to London. The up (London-bound) platform on the left has never seen passenger use.
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  Looking south, with unit 5734 awaiting return to London
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  Looking towards the abandoned extension to Leatherhead
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  Platform signage in South West Trains colours
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  Looking north from the road bridge

• Train times and station information for Chessington South railway station from National Rail