The snap above was taken from a large wall board in the Wetherspoons at Raynes Park. It was certainly not the first time that I had seen it and I persisted in wondering how the line to Epsom - having rightly worked out that it was the line to Epsom depicted - could possibly have been single track as recently as 1900.
The penny eventually dropped when we got back onto the Epsom platform for ourselves, snapped above from the other end, facing the other way. The line at this point is indeed single track, with the other half having been routed under the main line to Woking (and beyond that Portsmouth Harbour, a destination scheduled for a few weeks' time), to join that main line from the west. This half having left it from the east and with the two halves being joined together a few hundreds yards down the track in the snap above. A few hundred yards to the southwest. All of which can be easily seen in the screen scrape from gmaps (reference 51.4075584,-0.2326263) which follows.
Alarming that I should make such a blunder about a junction which I must have crossed thousands of times in the last twenty five years or so and about a station at which I must have spent thousands of late night minutes waiting for trains home. Even the odd smoke at the far end of the platform.
Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/blunder.html.
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