Closest railway stations are Surbiton or Kingston plus moderate walks

It was only renamed Surbiton to distinguish it from the new Kingston railway station on the Shepperton branch line, which opened on 1 January 1869.

Surbiton railway station at night

Image: SomewhereinSurbiton. JPG | The roundabout outside Surbiton railway station

Image: Surbitonbus. JPG | The bus shelter outside Surbiton railway station.

The traffic from Surbiton grew to such an extent that the L & SWR soon provided a branch into Kingston itself, thus forming Britain's first suburban railway network on a mainline railway.

The underground railway would run between Brent Cross and Surbiton.

Coaching interests in Kingston were opposed to having a railway in the town and consequently the London and South Western Railway built its line to Southampton further south through Surbiton.

* Surbiton railway station, South London ( Railway and cafe scene at the start of Half-Blood Prince )

The underground railway would run between Brent Cross and Surbiton.

Surbiton railway station is a National Rail station in Surbiton, south west London, in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

Successive renamings of the station were Kingston Junction in late 1852, Surbiton and Kingston in 1863 when the present Kingston railway station opened on the branch line, and Surbiton in 1867.

Surbiton station is located within Zone 6 of the London Transport Zones.

Surbiton station features in the 2009 film version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Blood Prince with actors Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter and Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore.

* Kingston ; on the east side of King Charles Road, about half a mile east of the present Surbiton station ;

This taught me how to drink cider and vomit it up on Surbiton station, and other life-altering lessons.

Surbiton is an Art Deco station

The former goods yard site at Surbiton ultimately became the main station car park although some land was also subsequently developed into residential flats.

The ticket office at Surbiton is open seven days a week, unlike some stations, and so commuters from surrounding areas go to the station to buy and renew tickets.

The station has two platforms and it predominantly served by stopping trains on the Woking to London Waterloo via Surbiton service.

The borough was formed in 1965 by the merger and the transfer from Surrey to Greater London of the Municipal boroughs of Kingston-upon-Thames ( which itself was a Royal Borough ), Malden and Coombe and Surbiton.

This minority administration was weakened in 1999 by the expulsion of Tim Brown for expressing concerns about the leadership of the local Kingston & Surbiton Conservative Association.

The only neighbourhood where the Liberal Democrats increased their majority was Surbiton, where they took control of Berrylands ward, ousting Kevin Davis the leader of the Conservative Group on the Council.

Kevin Davis was subsequently replaced as the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Kingston & Surbiton by Helen Whately.

Its name was originally Norberton ( e ), the Old English north buritum ' or granary, as it was named in a similar way to Surbiton on the opposite side of the Hogsmill River.

Surbiton was formerly within the County of Surrey, but became part of Greater London in 1965 following the London Government Act 1963, together with many areas including neighbouring Kingston and Richmond.

The writer Enid Blyton ( 1897 – 1968 ) was governess to a Surbiton family for four years from 1920, at a house called ' Southernhay ', also on the Hook Road.

The Surbiton Trophy was part of the ATP Challenger Series and in 2009 the venue was moved to Nottingham as part of a reorganisation by the LTA.

Surbiton is most famous for Surbiton Hockey Club, which was established in 1874, and is regarded as one of the best hockey clubs in the country with its colts, men and ladies teams all regularly being in the top leagues.

Surbiton Caledonian Society was formed in 1948, by Scots for the benefit of Scots living in the area, and the first dance took place on the 11th of March 1948 to the music of a band called Jock and his Blue Kittens.

Image: SurbitonClockTower. JPG | The clock tower at Surbiton was built to celebrate the 1902 coronation of King Edward VII.

Nash developed the assymmetry of his castles in his Italinate villas, his first such exercise was Cronkhill ( 1802 ), others included Sandridge Park ( 1805 ) and Southborough Place, Surbiton, ( 1808 ).

The location filming was in the North London suburb of Northwood, although the series was set in Surbiton, southwest London.

The new settlement was named Surbiton ( after a farm that had previously been in the area ) after a brief period of being known as Kingston-on-Railway.

On 1 April 1985, an attempt was made to film Cardiacs at a live concert at the Surbiton Assembly Rooms.

Edward Davey was elected to the House of Commons at his first attempt at the 1997 General Election where he defeated the sitting Conservative MP for the former constituency of Surbiton Richard Tracey with a majority of just 56 votes and has remained the MP there since.

It wasn't until 15 April 1978 that the society staged a show entirely on its own ; this show ( in Surbiton, Surrey ) was the very first all-rats show ever staged.

In a spoof of epic journeys, the Norrises ( Michael Palin as Brian Norris and Graham Chapman in drag as Betty Norris ) set out to see if the journey from Surbiton to Hounslow was possible ; they were thwarted by the Thames and had to finish the trek by rail.

She taught for five years at Bickley, Surbiton and Chessington, writing in her spare time.

An ICL Anthology, Chapter 6: LEO, Laidlaw Hicks, Surbiton, UK.

Nearby towns are Kingston upon Thames, Raynes Park, Surbiton, Berrylands, Tolworth and Worcester Park.

In 1965, the London Government Act 1963 came into force merging the boroughs of Malden & Coombe and Surbiton with Kingston upon Thames to form the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

( No Names ) Club ( Kilburn ), the original Crystal Palace, Blackheath, Kensington School, Perceval House ( Blackheath ), Surbiton and Blackheath Proprietary School ; Charterhouse sent their captain, B. F. Hartshorne, but declined the offer to join.

Abigail and Roger, The Airbase, As Good Cooks Go, the 1960 adaptation of The Citadel, the 1956 adaptation of David Copperfield, The Dark Island, The Gnomes of Dulwich, Hurricane, For Richer ... For Poorer, Hereward the Wake, The Naked Lady, Night Train To Surbiton, Outbreak of Murder, Where do I Sit ?, and Witch Hunt have all been wiped with no footage surviving while four out of seven episodes of the paranormal anthology series Dead of Night were wiped.

Neighbouring settlements include: Tolworth, Ewell, Surbiton, Claygate, Epsom, Oxshott, Leatherhead, Esher, Kingston upon Thames and Worcester Park.

The main town is Kingston upon Thames and it includes Surbiton, Chessington, New Malden and Tolworth.

The borough includes the whole of the Kingston and Surbiton Westminster Parliamentary Constituency and part of the Richmond Park Constituency, both constituencies were created in 1997.

Edward Davey overturned the previous Conservative majority of more than 10, 000 in Kingston and Surbiton, to win by 56 votes after three recounts.

Councillors unseated included the veteran Steve Mama ( Labour ), Kingston's longest serving Councillor ; the Conservative election campaign co-ordinator Nick Kilby from his previously safe Surbiton Hill ward ; and Paul Johnston, the former local Conservative Association chairman and trustee.

* Thames Riverside-Flowing beside Kingston and Surbiton.

Surbiton, is a suburban area of south west London ( historically in Surrey ) within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

Surbiton is a commuter town, with a mixture of Art-Deco courts, more recent residential blocks and grand 19th century townhouses blending into a sea of semi-detached 20th century housing estates.

This resulted in the line being routed further south, through a cutting in the hill south of Surbiton.