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PHOTO WEST BROMPTON STATION THE MILDMAY LINE AND SOUTHERN STATION THE PLATFORMS BEING OPENED IN 1999 (DISTRICT LINE OVERGROUND MILDMAY LINE AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY) WEST BROMPTON STATION (DISTRICT LINE OVERGROUND MILDMAY LINE AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY) 7 MARCH 2026. THE STATION WAS BUILT BY THE WEST LONDON EXTENSION JOINT RAILWAY (WLEJR) JOINTLY OWNED BY THE GWR LNWR LBSCR AND LSWR WHICH JOINED THE WEST LONDON RAILWAY AT KENSINGTON (OLYMPIA) TO THE LSWR/LBSCR STATION AT CLAPHAM JUNCTION. ALTHOUGH THE WLEJR OPENED IN MARCH 1863 WEST BROMPTON STATION DID NOT OPEN UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1866. IN APRIL 1869 THE DISTRICT RAILWAY (DR) OPENED AN EXTENSION OF ITS LINE FROM GLOUCESTER ROAD TO A NEW TERMINUS AT WEST BROMPTON ADJACENT BUT SEPARATE FROM THE WLEJR STATION ALTHOUGH ORIGINALLY IT HAD BEEN INTENDED THAT THE DR CONNECT TO THE WLEJR. THE DR STATION WAS DESIGNED BY SIR JOHN FOWLER ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF OF THE DISTRICT RAILWAY (DR) IN CLASSICAL STYLE. THERE IS A PAIR OF STAIRS ON EACH PLATFORM ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO SEPARATE THE FLOW OF ARRIVING AND DEPARTING PASSENGERS WHICH SEEMED A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME BUT IS NO LONGER IN SUCH USE. IN MARCH 1880 THE DR OPENED AN EXTENSION FROM WEST BROMPTON TO PUTNEY BRIDGE. IN JUNE 1889 DR SERVICES WERE EXTENDED TO WIMBLEDON OVER NEW LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY (LSWR) TRACKS. FOLLOWING BOMB DAMAGE IN WWII THE WLEJR STATION CLOSED IN OCTOBER 1940 AND THE PASSENGER SERVICES WERE WITHDRAWN (ALTHOUGH THE LINE WAS STILL USED FOR FREIGHT). THE STATION WAS SUBSEQUENTLY DEMOLISHED. IN 1994 PASSENGER SERVICES BY BR RESUMED ON THE WEST LONDON LINE BUT THEY DID NOT STOP AT WEST BROMPTON UNTIL NEW PLATFORMS WERE PROVIDED IN JUNE 1999. WEST LONDON LINE PASSENGERS USED THE DISTRICT STATION TICKET HALL TO GAIN ACCESS TO THEIR PLATFORMS. A NEW LIFT TOWER WAS PROVIDED AT THE SAME TIME. WHAT HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN THE BR SERVICES ARE NOW PROVIDED BY SOUTHERN AND OVERGROUND (MILDMAY LINE). THE DR-BUILT STATION IS A GRADE II LISTED BUILDING. PICTURED IS THE MILDMAY LINE AND SOUTHERN STATION THE PLATFORMS BEING OPENED IN 1999. NOTE THE ENTRANCE TO THE DISTRICT STATION KNOCKED THROUGH THE WALL AT HIGH LEVEL.   

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