History
The railway itself was constructed through the locality in 1859 but the Motspur Park station was not added until 1925.
On 6 November 1947, there was a train crash at Motspur Park station which killed 4 and injured 12. In foggy conditions, a train was incorrectly authorized to pass a danger signal, and collided with another train that was crossing the line in front of it.
A small newspaper kiosk once stood on the West Barnes Lane side on the approach road, but this was demolished in the 1970s and has been replaced by a prefabricated travel agency office that later became a minicab office.
A signal box once stood at the western trackside approximately 50 yards from the southern end of the platform but this was also demolished (1992) when the level crossing changed to CCTV type controlled from Wimbledon Area Signalling Centre. The earlier manually operated gates were operated by a wheel turned by the signalman from within the box.
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