Wandsworth Common railway station

Wandsworth Common railway station is in the London Borough of Wandsworth in south London. It is 4 miles 5 chains down the line from London Victoria.

The West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway opened the first station as Wandsworth slightly to the north of the present station on 1 December 1856. From the outset the line was worked by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway , and then only ran to and from Crystal Palace. There were plans to extend it to join with the London and South Western Railway main line nearby, thereby providing access to London Waterloo station, but these were rejected by that railway. It was renamed Wandsworth Common on 1 January 1858 before closing later that year on 1 June 1858. It was replaced by a station named New Wandsworth which had opened on 29 March 1858 when the extended its line to Pimlico, and it was purchased by the LB&SCR.

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