 On 9 May 2011 Network Rail applied to the local planning authority to extend the platforms at , , and to take 10-car trains as part of a 2012/13 Network Rail plan that included Effingham Junction, , and .The New Line was opened on 2 February 1885 by the London and South Western Railway.Successor companies to run the line were the Southern Railway, British Rail Southern Region, later Network SouthEast, South West Trains, and currently South Western Railway.