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Box Hill & Westhumble railway station, the Glossary

Box Hill & Westhumble is a railway station in the village of Westhumble in Surrey, England, approximately north of Dorking town centre.^[1]

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Box Hill, Surrey

Box Hill is a summit of the North Downs in Surrey, approximately south-west of London.

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Charles Henry Driver FRIBA (23 March 1832 – 27 October 1900) was a significant British architect of the Victorian era, with a reputation for pioneering use of ornamental iron work for which he was seen as a leading authority.

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Châteauesque

Châteauesque (or Francis I style,Whiffen, Marcus, American Architecture Since 1780: A guide to the styles, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1969, p. 142. or in Canada, the Château Style) is a revivalist architectural style based on the French Renaissance architecture of the monumental châteaux of the Loire Valley from the late fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century. Box Hill & Westhumble railway station and Châteauesque are Châteauesque architecture.

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Dorking

Dorking is a market town in Surrey in South East England about south of London.

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Electric multiple unit

An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages using electricity as the motive power.

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Kingston upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames, colloquially known as Kingston, is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, England.

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LB&SCR A1 class

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) A1 class is a class of British steam locomotive.

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Leatherhead

Leatherhead is a town in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England, about south of Central London.

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Leopold Salomons

Leopold Salomons (14 May 1841 – 23 September 1915) was a city financier and company director active in the City of London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR (known also as the Brighton line, the Brighton Railway or the Brighton)) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922.

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Mole Gap Trail

The Mole Gap Trail is a official walking route alongside the River Mole, linking the Surrey towns of Dorking and Leatherhead.

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Mole Valley

Mole Valley is a local government district in Surrey, England.

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National Railway Museum

The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York, England, forming part of the Science Museum Group.

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Norbury Park

Norbury Park is an area of mixed wooded and agricultural land surrounding a privately owned its Georgian manor house near Leatherhead and Dorking, Surrey.

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North Downs Way

The North Downs Way National Trail is a long-distance path in southern England, opened in 1978.

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Office of Rail and Road

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the economic and safety regulation of Britain's railways, and the economic monitoring of National Highways.

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Ordnance Survey National Grid

The Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system (OSGB), also known as British National Grid (BNG), is a system of geographic grid references, distinct from latitude and longitude, whereby any location in Great Britain can be described in terms of its distance from the origin (0, 0), which lies to the west of the Isles of Scilly.

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South Western Railway

South Western Railway (SWR; legal name First MTR South Western Trains Limited) is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup (70%) and MTR Corporation (30%) that operates the South Western franchise.

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Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway)

Southern is the brand name used by the Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) train operating company on the Southern routes of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise in England.

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Southern Railway (UK)

The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping.

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Surrey

Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Sutton and Mole Valley lines

The Sutton and Mole Valley lines were constructed between 1847 and 1868 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, the London and South Western Railway and the LBSCR-sponsored Horsham, Dorking and Leatherhead Railway.

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Thames Down Link

The Thames Down Link is a official walking route linking the Thames Path and the North Downs Way.

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Thomas Grissell

Thomas Grissell (4 October 1801 – 26 May 1874) was an English public works contractor who was responsible for constructing a number of buildings in England.

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Train station

A train station, railroad station, or railroad depot (mainly North American terminology) and railway station (mainly UK and other Anglophone countries) is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both.

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Transport Act 1962

The Transport Act 1962 (10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 46) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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United Kingdom railway station categories

The 2,579 railway stations on the National Rail network in Great Britain are classified into six categories (two of which are each divided into two subcategories) by the Department for Transport.

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Westhumble

Westhumble is a village in south east England, approximately north of Dorking, Surrey.

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William Stroudley

William Stroudley (6 March 1833 – 20 December 1889) was an English railway engineer, and was one of the most famous steam locomotive engineers of the nineteenth century, working principally for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR).

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York

York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Hill_%26_Westhumble_railway_station

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