On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 14:39:22 -0800 (PST) wrote :
nd 40, around the same time as the Chessington Branch was constructed.
(Keeping in on a railway topic). The bridge was built at the same time,
as its visible on the 1945 rollback on Google Earth. It looks like it
would have met up with what is now the access road to the garden centre
at the junction of the A240 and Jubilee Way. I would think WW2 put an
end to further development. Strangely in the 1945 photo the road ends
roughly at where the school gates are, maybe when the school was built
postwar, the idea was still about and they added a bit of road to suit.

I left RBK in 1984 so my memory on this is failing but between the wars
there was a planned road from (IIRC) Chessington to Carshalton and parts
of it were built - Sheephouse Way and the very wide bit of South Lane
joining Malden Road, then on to what is now labelled as Risborough Green
on http://goo.gl/maps/xoty8 and Green Lane, Worcester Park and then it
would have run through to Morden and beyond. The route was subject to
safeguarding until c.1980 when various parts were sold off for development
- I remember one in Chessington (Cox Lane?). It's why you get bits of dual
carriageway or very wide roads in places where you would not expect them.

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Tony Bryer