Morden South railway station
Morden South 
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 Morden South
Location of Morden South in Greater London
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| Location | Morden |
| Local authority | London Borough of Merton |
| Managed by | Thameslink |
| Station code | MDS |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Fare zone | 4 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
 85,238 |
| 2012–13 |
87,638 |
| 2013–14 |
0.107 million |
| 2014–15 |
 0.088 million |
| 2015–16 |
0.120 million |
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| 1930 | Opened |
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| WGS84 | 51°23′47″N 0°11′56″W / 51.3965°N 0.199°WCoordinates: 51°23′47″N 0°11′56″W / 51.3965°N 0.199°W |
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Morden South railway station is in Morden in the London Borough of Merton. The station is served by Thameslink trains on the Sutton Loop Line. It is in Travelcard Zone 4.
The station is very close to the Bait-ul-Futuh Mosque.
Parliamentary approval for a line from Wimbledon to Sutton had been obtained by the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway (W&SR) in 1910 but work had been delayed by World War I. From the W&SR's inception, the District Railway (DR) was a shareholder of the company and had rights to run trains over the line when built. In the 1920s, the London Electric Railway (LER, precursor of London Underground) planned, through its ownership of the DR, to use part of the route for an extension of the City and South London Railway (C&SLR, now the Northern line) to Sutton. The SR objected and an agreement was reached that enabled the C&SLR to extend as far as Morden in exchange for the LER giving up its rights over the W&SR route. The SR subsequently built the line, one of the last to be built in the London area. The station opened on 5 January 1930 when full services on the line were extended from South Merton.
Formerly, a siding served an Express Dairies bottling plant adjacent to the station. Until closure in 1992 milk trains delivered milk to the plant for bottling and distribution. The station staff were responsible for handling the switching points to enable these trains to depart from the main line. Shunting was latterly undertaken by Hunslet Engine Company "Yardmaster" locomotive No.HE5308/60 named David. The bottling plant closed in 1992.
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