Surbiton Escorts

Surbiton railway station is a National Rail station in Surbiton, south west London, in theKingston upon Thames. The station is managed and served by South West Trains, and is inTravelcard Zone 6. It is considered to be one of the finest modernist stations in Great Britain[2]and is a Grade II listed building .
The London and Southampton Railway intended its line to go via Kingston but Kingston Corporationobjected, fearing a deleterious impact on their coaching trade, and the railway passed about 1½ miles south of the town with the first Kingstonstation opening in 1838 on the east side of King Charles Road. In 1845 it was resited half a mile west to Surbiton, then little more than a farm. TheHampton Court Branch was built in 1849, the New Guildford Line which diverges at the same point opened in 1885.