The Route
Despite its name the line does not run along the top of the North Downs, but loosely shadows the main chalk ridge of the North Downs between Redhill and Ash at a lower level. Between Reigate and Gomshall the line runs along the foot of the North Downs escarpment in the Vale of Holmesdale. At Guildford it runs through the gap in the Downs carved by the river Wey, with a short tunnel just south of Guildford station, and further west between Guildford and Ash the line runs to the north of the Hog's Back. It then follows the Blackwater valley as far as Sandhurst, before continuing to Reading.
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