Editing Reigate (section)

===Utilities===
Reigate Water Works Company was established in 1858.<ref name=Crocker_p75>{{harvnb|Crocker|1999|p=75}}</ref> It opened a plant on Littleton Lane the following year, to supply drinking water to the town from the Wallace Brook.<ref name=Hooper_1979_p176>{{harvnb|Hooper|1979|p=176}}</ref> It was purchased by the East Surrey Water Company in 1896,<ref name=Crocker_p75/> which closed the Reigate works after extending its mains network to the town from [[Caterham]].<ref name=Hooper_1979_p176/>{{refn|The Colley Hill Water Tower was built in 1911 by the Sutton District Water Company, following its acquisition of the Kingswood and District Water Company.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1143528 |title= Colley Hill Water Tower |last= Capper |first= Ian |date= 1 February 2009 |publisher= Geograph |access-date= 12 April 2022 |archive-date= 17 September 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190917050441/https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1143528 |url-status= live }}</ref>|group=note}} The first [[sewerage]] system in Reigate was installed in 1876 and included a main outfall sewer running under Bell Street via Woodhatch to the [[sewage treatment|treatment works]] at Earlswood Common.<ref name=Hooper_1979_pp181-182>{{harvnb|Hooper|1979|pp=181–182}}</ref>

Reigate Gas Company was formed in 1838 and opened a gasworks on London Road a year later.<ref name=Hooper_1979_p176/><ref name=Tarplee_Gas_Electricity>{{cite journal |last1= Tarplee |first1= Peter |year= 2007 |title= Some public utilities in Surrey: Electricity and gas |url= https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/Surrey%20History%207-5.pdf |journal= Surrey History |volume=7 |issue= 5 |pages= 262–272 |access-date= 10 January 2021 |archive-date= 5 February 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210205224313/https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/sites/default/files/Surrey%20History%207-5.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> Initially it was contracted to supply gas for 28 street lights in the town centre, but by 1860, increasing domestic demand necessitated the opening of a larger facility at the north end of Nutley Lane. In 1921, the Reigate company was taken over by the Redhill Gas Company, which had been formed in 1865.<ref name=Hooper_1979_p176/>

[[File:Former Reigate Corporation Electricity Works.jpg|thumb|right|The former Reigate Corporation electricity works, Wray Common Road]]
An electricity generating station was authorised by the Reigate Electric Lighting Order 1897 and constructed in a former sand quarry next to the railway line off Wray Common Road.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6811289 |title= TQ2650: Former Reigate Corporation Electricity Works |last= Capper |first= Ian |date= 12 April 2021 |publisher= UK Geograph |access-date= 22 September 2021 |archive-date= 13 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210913160353/https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6811289 |url-status= live }}</ref> On opening it had an [[nameplate capacity|installed capacity]] of 230&nbsp;kW, but by the time of its closure in 1936, the maximum power output had risen to 2.7&nbsp;MW.<ref name=Tarplee_Gas_Electricity/> Under the [[Electricity (Supply) Act 1926]], Reigate was connected to the [[National Grid (Great Britain)|National Grid]], initially to a 33&nbsp;kV [[electric power transmission|supply ring]], which linked the town to [[Croydon]], Dorking, [[Epsom]] and Leatherhead. In 1939, the ring was connected to the [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]]-[[Woking]] main via a 132&nbsp;kV [[electrical substation|substation]] at Leatherhead.<ref name=Crocker_1999_p118>{{harvnb|Crocker|1999|p=118}}</ref><ref name=Tarplee_Gas_Electricity/>