- Chertsey Branch Line
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Chertsey Branch Line Overview Type Suburban rail, Heavy rail System National Rail Status Operational Locale South East England Operation Opened 1849 Owner Network Rail Technical Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Standard gauge The Chertsey Branch Line, opened in 1848, connects the Waterloo to Reading Line at Virginia Water to the South Western Main Line at Weybridge. It is also referred to as the Weybridge Line.
The line was electrified (660v DC third rail) in the late 1930s by the Southern Railway.
Stations on the line are:
Services
On weekdays an half hourly all-stations service to London Waterloo station runs via Staines and the Hounslow Loop Line. Travel time may be shortened by a few minutes by changing to a fast train at Staines or Weybridge. On Sundays there is an hourly all-stations service which, instead of going to Weybridge, takes the west curve at Byfleet Junction and terminates at Woking. That curve is little used although from 2000 to 2002 the London Crosslink service of Anglia Railways from Colchester and Ipswich to Basingstoke via north London and Staines, which used Class 170 DMUs, took it.
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