Full Journey on SWR Class 455 From London Waterloo To Chessington South | Gabriel Chu

This is a special episode of the London Transport Series on this channel. In today's video, we will take the Class 455/7 (5739) from London Waterloo to Chessington South.

This train calls at London Waterloo, Vaxuhall, Clapham Junction, Earlsfield, Wimbledon, Rayners Park, Motspur Park, Malden Manor, Tolworth, Chessington North and Chessington South.

The Chessington branch line is a short National Rail railway line in England, mostly in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, from Motspur Park to Chessington South.

The branch was intended as a secondary main line to relieve congestion from Leatherhead to Motspur Park, and was thus built as electrified double track from the start. However, the line only got to Chessington before green belt legislation put a stop to completing the line.

The line was the last line built by the Southern Railway. It was to serve the housing, industrial, engineering and storage developments south of Surbiton.

It was opened on 29 May 1938 from Motspur Park to Tolworth, with an intermediate station at Malden Manor, and extended on 28 May 1939 to Chessington North and Chessington South.

All the stations on the line were of concrete in an Art Deco style, typical of the period.

Work to extend beyond Chessington was halted by the outbreak of World War II, with track laid beyond Chessington South as far as Chalky Lane, and preparatory works continuing further south. This included an embankment built by the Royal Engineers as a military exercise from Chalky Lane as far south as Chessington Wood, close to where the next station at Malden Rushett would have been built. A second station to serve Ashtead, namely at its northern extreme, was also planned. After the war green belt legislation put a stop to any resumption because Ashtead Common was given protective status. A goods yard south of Chessington South was used as a coal concentration depot from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1980s. The goods yard and the 0.5 miles (0.80 km) of trackbed towards Malden Rushett are overgrown by trees. Two platforms were built at Chessington South but since the extension south was never built only one platform has ever been in public use.

It was originally intended to name Chessington North station Chessington Court and Chessington South station Chessington Grange.

The line was mainly constructed on embankment with short distances in cuttings and several bridges. A 140-foot (43 m) viaduct crosses the Hogsmill River near Malden Manor.

Demand and population in the area increased after the railway's relatively late introduction. Malden Manor station is the line's busiest with 0.60 million journeys made in the 2014-2015 financial year. Its recorded use was 0.58 million ten years before. The total of journeys per year of the four stations on the line has reached 2.219 million recorded journeys. Malden Manor station has formally been assigned E (small staffed) status as its station category.

這是本頻道倫敦交通系列的特別節目。在今天的影片中，我們將搭乘455/7型列車（5739次），從倫敦滑鐵盧車站前往切辛頓南站。

列車停靠倫敦滑鐵盧車站、瓦克蘇霍爾車站、克拉珀姆樞紐站、厄爾斯菲爾德車站、溫布頓車站、雷納斯公園車站、莫茨珀公園車站、莫爾登莊園車站、托爾沃思車站、切辛頓北站和切辛頓南站。

切辛頓支線是英國國家鐵路的一條短途線路，大部分位於泰晤士河畔金斯頓皇家自治市鎮內，從莫茨珀公園站延伸至切辛頓南站。

這條支線最初是作為一條輔助幹線，旨在緩解萊瑟黑德至莫茨珀公園之間的交通擁堵，因此從一開始就建成了電氣化雙軌線路。然而，由於綠帶法規的限制，線路只延伸到了切辛頓站，未能完工。

這條路線是南方鐵路公司興建的最後一條路線。這條鐵路旨在服務瑟比頓南部地區的住宅、工業、工程和倉儲發展。

它於1938年5月29日開通，從莫茨珀公園站到托爾沃思站，中間設有馬爾登莊園站。 1939年5月28日，鐵路延伸至切辛頓北站和切辛頓南站。

沿線所有車站均為混凝土結構，採用裝飾藝術風格，是當時的典型建築風格。

第二次世界大戰爆發後，切辛頓以南的延伸工程被迫中止。當時，鐵路已鋪設至切辛頓南站以南的查基巷站，並繼續向南進行前期準備工作。其中包括皇家工程兵為進行軍事演習而建造的路堤，從查基巷一直延伸到切辛頓伍德，靠近原計劃建造的下一個車站馬爾登拉什特站的位置。此外，還計劃在阿什泰德北端建造第二個車站。戰後，由於阿什泰德公共用地被劃為保護區，綠帶立法阻止了任何徵用計畫的實施。從1960年代中期到1980年代末，切辛頓南站以南的貨場曾被用作煤炭集中站。該貨場以及通往馬爾登拉什特方向的0.5英里（0.80公里）長的路基如今已被樹木覆蓋。切辛頓南站曾建有兩個月台，但由於向南延伸的線路從未建成，因此至今只有其中一個站台投入使用。

最初計劃將切辛頓北站命名為切辛頓苑站，將切辛頓南站命名為切辛頓莊園站。

該線路主要建於路堤上，僅有短距離的路塹和幾座橋樑。一座140英尺（43公尺）長的橋樑橫跨馬爾登莊園附近的霍格斯米爾河。

鐵路開通時間相對較晚，但該地區的交通需求和人口卻增加。馬爾登莊園站是該線路最繁忙的車站，2014-2015財年客流量達60萬人次。十年前，該站的客流量記錄為58萬人次。該線路四個車站的年總客流量已達221.9萬人次。馬爾登莊園站已被正式評定為E級（小型人員配備）車站。

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Gabriel Chu 是一位來自香港的交通愛好者。我從 2019 年開始拍攝香港的交通影像，其中一些作品受到了世界各地人們的喜愛！自 2023 年香港交通恢復正常以來，我開始拍攝高鐵系列，足跡遍佈香港以外地區。

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Gabriel Chu is a traffic enthusiast from Hong Kong. I started filming Hong Kong traffic footage in 2019, and some of my footage has been loved by people around the world! Since the resumption of normal traffic in 2023, I've started filming the High Speed ​​Rail series, traveling beyond Hong Kong.

I hope to build this channel into a global traffic channel. You can find me anytime, anywhere with an internet connection and join me on my journey!

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