Catford Loop Line

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Catford Loop Line
Legend Inner South London Line to London Victoria and Thameslink line to Blackfriars and the North Nunhead railway station Nunhead to Lewisham link CP & SL JR To Crystal Palace BML London Bridge branch Crofton Park Catford Hayes Line Bellingham Bellingham carriage sidings Beckenham Hill Ravensbourne Chatham Main Line Shortlands Chatham Main Line

The Catford Loop line was opened by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway on 1 July 1892; it had been incorporated as the Shortlands and Nunhead Railway in 1889. The line provides a relief route for trains from London Victoria for the Kent coast (see Chatham Main Line); suburban services for Sevenoaks also use the line.

The line leaves the former Crystal Palace branch and the link to Lewisham (the former Greenwich Park branch) at a junction to the east of Nunhead; however, in current railway usage the section from the main line at Brixton to Nunhead, with stations at Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye, is also included.

There are five stations on the original route, all opened in 1892. They are as follows:

• Crofton Park
• Catford
• Bellingham
  • here are carriage sidings
• Beckenham Hill
• Ravensbourne

The line joins the main line at Shortlands Junction, west of Shortlands station. The total length from Nunhead of the Catford Loop is almost five miles (8km), and from Brixton nearly eight miles (12.5km).

The line was electrified with the other SECR urban routes on 12th July 1925 by Southern Railway.

edit Railway lines in London:
North London:	Dudding Hill Line   Hertford Loop Line   Gospel Oak-Barking Line   North London Line   Northern City Line   Lea Valley Lines    St Albans Branch Line   Thameslink   Watford DC Line
East London:	Romford-Upminster Line
South London:	Bexleyheath Line   Bromley North Line   Catford Loop Line   Greenwich Line   Dartford Loop Line  Hayes Line    Hounslow Loop Line   Kingston Loop Line   Nunhead to Lewisham link   South London Lines    Tattenham Corner Line   Thameslink
West London:	West London Line
Proposed network:	London Overground