"Troy Steadman" wrote:

Yes Peter you were right the first time, Epsom Downs is the station I
was thinking of, cut down from 9 platforms plus 8 or so sidings,
and a turntable when it was built to the current single line. I was
shown round the huge signal box by a bored signalman thirty years ago
and couldn't believe its magnitude, levers everywhere.

The new 'station house' didn't survive long in railway use - it's a nursery
(as in little kiddies not plants) now.

Chris