page_title: Kingswood railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kingswood railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Kingswood station: remarkable architecture, 1995Seen from the road, exactly as TQ2456&#160;: Kingswood railway station: buildings but 18 years earlier: ex-SE&amp;CR Purley - Tattenham Corner branch.
context_page_description: Kingswood railway station serves Kingswood in the county of Surrey. It is a late-Victorian station on the Tattenham Corner Line, 20 miles 72 chains from London Charing Cross. Train services and the station are operated by Southern.
  The station has a building on the up side only, with just a metal shelter on the down side. Part of the building is still used by Southern, with a large waiting area and ticket office on the ground floor, though this is only open during weekday morning peak travel. The upper floors and part of the ground floor are used as offices, the Tudor Business Centre. There is a small forecourt available for car parking on both sides of the station, cyclists are provided with a small shelter. The two platforms are connected by a new steel over bridge.
  There is a self-serve ticket machine located on each platform and Oyster smart card readers are installed at the entrance/exits on both sides of the station.
context_section_description: Kingswood station originally opened in 1897 as Kingswood and Burgh Heath. It was the original terminus of the single-track Tattenham Corner Line before it was extended to Tadworth & Walton-on-the-Hill in 1900 (now Tadworth) and Tattenham Corner a year later.
  An open air terrace was once provided on top of the station's platform canopy for afternoon tea. However, this only lasted until 1920 as the steam and soot from the trains beneath rendered it unprofitable.
caption: Kingswood station exterior 1995 (geograph 5448190).jpg
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