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Dorking Deepdene Railway Control Centre - Surrey - January 2018

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Another local one that I've been wanting to do for ages, but never got round to it until now.
It's filled full of asbestos, so I made sure to bring my good PP3 mask, but even that wasn't enough probably.


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During World War 2, the Southern Railway took over the Deepdene Hotel near Dorking in Surrey for its wartime emergency headquarters. In the grounds they excavated an underground control centre taking advantage of a network of existing natural caves that had been...

Dorking Deepdene Railway Control Centre - Surrey - January 2018

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