Mitcham railway station

UK stations
name = Mitcham


manager = Railtrack
zone = 4
locale = Mitcham
borough = London Borough of Merton
start = 1803 (SIR)
Closed 1846 (SIR)
Opened 1855 (W&CR)
Closed 1997 (Railtrack)
platforms = 2
exits =

Mitcham railway station is a railway station that closed in 1997 and is a former railway station. It is now to the adjacent Mitcham tram stop.

History

The station was first opened by the Surrey Iron Railway (SIR) in 1803, the world's first long distance railway, with trains pulled by horses. After the SIR went out of business in 1846, the Wimbledon & Croydon Railway (W&CR) took over the route and the station in 1855 and the route was operated as a conventional railway until closed by Railtrack in 1997 for conversion to tram operation. Station Court, on the north of the tram line and east of London Road A217, was one of the SIR's original station buildings, used as a merchant's home, making it one of the oldest railway buildings in the world.