Tattenham Corner railway station section coinciding with the opening of the station on 4 June that year (by which time the SER had absorbed the independent company). The station closed in September 1914 and was used occasionally for race specials from 1920 until full public service restored (upon electrification) on 25 March 1928. In its heyday, the station had seven platforms (to handle the sizeable amounts of racecourse traffic) but today only three remain in use. Epsom Downs station is nearby as the terminus of the Epsom Downs branch line from Sutton, also served by Southern services. On 1 December 1993, an approaching train
Turf Paradise Race Course Turf Paradise Race Course Turf Paradise is a thoroughbred and quarter horse racetrack in the Deer Valley section of Phoenix, Arizona in the United States. During the off-season it hosts American Flat Track motorcycle racing. In 1954 businessman Walter Cluer, a successful millwork company founder and manufacturer from Phoenix, purchased of barren desert at what is now Bell Road and 19th Avenue. Cluer, who was also a horse owner, dreamt of building a first-class race track in Phoenix. Many locals thought Cluer's ambitious project was ill-timed and destined to fail, given that the property was from downtown Phoenix, and that