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Oxshott Rail Crash
Oxshott railway station serves the village of Oxshott, in Surrey, England. It is down the line from . The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South Western Railway (train operating company), South Western Railway. The station is on the New Guildford Line, and is served by trains from Waterloo to Guildford (Surrey) railway station, Guildford via Cobham & Stoke D'Abernon railway station, Cobham. History The station opened on 2 February 1885 as Oxshott and Fairmile. At that time the village was, as Fairmile remains, just a hamlet without place of worship. The brickfields here were served by a short siding from the station. These supplied bricks for many London buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Incidents On 5 November 2010, at about 3:30 pm, a Concrete mixer#Concrete mixing transport trucks, concrete mixer lorry fell off the bridge over the railway 50 metres north-east of the station, and landed on carriages of a train accelerating away f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxshott
Oxshott is a suburban village in the borough of Elmbridge in Surrey, England. Oxshott includes hilly acidic heath which is partly wooded (see Esher Commons and Prince's Coverts) and occupies the land between the large towns of Esher and Leatherhead. The Oxshott section of the single carriageway north-south A244 road (Great Britain), A244 runs through its middle and briefly forms its high street, centred from the A3 (Portsmouth Road) and the M25 (London Orbital motorway). A survey in 2010 by the ''Daily Telegraph'' asserted it was "the village with most footballers" in England and mentioned other celebrities who chose to live in the village — Chelsea F.C. have their main training ground in Stoke D'Abernon, which, together with Oxshott, makes up an electoral ward of Surrey County Council. Before about 1912, there was an equally-used alternative spelling, Ockshot. Oxshott was part of Stoke D'Abernon parish until 1912, when Oxshott gained its first place of worship. The Prince's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
