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Facing South
On p212 you identified the bottom picture as Wimbledon Chase. I believe it is the next station in the direction of Sutton, South Merton. The photograph is looking back up the line, in the direction of Wimbledon Chase, so not far out. In fact Wimbledon Chase platforms are distinctly on a curve as the line runs around to the junction with the South Western main line and Wimbledon Weyard; in the published photograph the platforms are straight. The only reason I able to identify it is that I’ve lived all my life in the neighbourhood, SW20.
Ian Lewcock, by email
Princetown branch
Readers might like to look on YouTube for a film entitled made by the BBC in 1954. It tells of two sailors on shore leave from Plymouth who travel to Looe for shark fishing but one also visits farming friends on Dartmoor, travelling by train from North Road to Yelverton and Yelverton to King Tor Halt from
