SideTracked - Motspur Park Traditional Geocache

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Motspur Park railway station is a suburban station in the London Borough of Merton in South London. The station is served by South West Trains, and is part of the Mole Valley Line. It is also a “change here” for the Chessington Branch. The station stands atop a railway embankment off a service road behind the parade of shops on West Barnes Lane. The shops and surrounding streets on both sides of the line are known as Motspur Park. The station is a single island platform reached by footbridge from either side of the track. The station retains its original London and South Western Railway buildings in the centre of the platform. The railway itself was constructed through the locality in 1859 but the Motspur Park station was not added until 1925. On the 6 November 1947, there was a train crash at Motspur Park station which killed 4 and injured 12. A signal box once stood at the western trackside approximately 50 yards from the southern end of the platform but this was also demolished (1992) when the level crossing changed to automatic lifting barrier type in the 1980s.

The cache is a magnetic Film Canister and has a log book and small pencil.