Bookham railway station

Bookham railway station was opened on 2 February 1885; the line at the time was owned by the London and South Western Railway. Initially the London and South Western Railway wanted to build the line into the centre of Great Bookham village itself, but as often happened in those early days of rail expansion from London, the key landowners (and villagers) were strongly opposed to that idea and forced the company to adopt a much more northerly route, resulting in the station being built nearly 1 mi from the village high street in open country. It effectively remained in an open-field setting until the later 1950s/early 1960s when there was a massive expansion of the village, with new estates…