Great Cockcrow Railway, Chertsey

Great Cockcrow Railway 7 ¼ inch 

Construction began in mid-1965 and the first piece of the railway, between Hardwick Central and Phillips Bridge, opened on 14th September 1968. Within a year, however, the original ‘Circuit’ from Hardwick to Everglades Junction and back had been completed. Doubling of most of the line was undertaken in the early years together with some subsequent alterations and additions to the original layout as experience of operation grew and as rising passenger
numbers made it necessary to increase line capacity. Following purchase of additional land the branch from Everglades Junction to Cockcrow Hill opened in 1979, the return line via Greywood Tunnel coming into operation five years later. At first this line made a junction with the Down Main at Bishop’s Bridge but was run through independently to Everglades in 1989. Other subsequent extensions took the Jubilee Line (opened 1997) round the lower car park, this project also including a spur to provide rail access to the increasingly well-equipped workshop. The Millennium Line, opened in 2000, extended the branch to form a ½ mile long loop below Cockcrow Hill.