Virginia Water (VIR)

Virginia Water in Surrey is the junction of the London Waterloo to Reading and Chertsey Branch Lines.

Information
Type:	National Rail (London Waterloo-Reading & Chertsey Branch Lines)
Station code:	VIR
Opened:	1856
Platforms:	4

The station was opened by the London & South Western Railway in 1856 on it's line from Staines to Ascot. The station was rebuilt in the early 1970s in the common British Rail prefab concrete style.

A new footbridge including lifts was opened in 2017 replacing an older footbridge that did not offer step-free access.

Virginia Water has two sets of platforms, platforms two and three are joined in a V-shape to allow for easy interchange. The station is managed by South Western Railway.

SWR 450 548 arrives with a Reading bound train

A SWR 700 departs under the new footbridge

A SWR 700 stands at the station

Platform side of the main station building

View down the platform

Waiting to depart

Vauxhall (VXH)

Information
Type:	National Rail (South Western Main Line)
Station code:	VXH
Opened:	1848
Platforms:	8

Vauxhall is a station in Central London on the approach to London Waterloo in the Vauxhall district of South West London. The station was opened as Vauxhall Bridge by the London & South West Railway in 1848. Although a through station Vauxhall is ticketed as a London terminus.

It is a busy station (over 20 million passengers a year) with services along the South Western Main Line passing through to and from Waterloo. A tube station was built next to it on the Victoria Line in 1971.

The station is a major interchange station also with buses, the adjacent Vauxhall bus station is the second busiest in London.

SWT 455 712 heads off to conclude its journey at Waterloo

View across the platforms

A SWT 458 on the far platform

Platform  6 canopy