Greenwich Park branch

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The Greenwich Park branch was a railway line in southern London, built by London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) from Nunhead to Greenwich Park.

[edit] LCDR line

It ran from a junction at Nunhead, in a generally north-east direction, to a terminus on the Greenwich High Road, close to the north-west corner of Greenwich Park. The line was approximately 3 miles (4.8km) in length.

There were four stations:

• Brockley Lane
• Lewisham Road
• Blackheath Hill
• Greenwich Park

All the stations were closed on 1 January 1917, during WWI, and the line was abandoned on 1 January 1926 by Southern Railway.

[edit] Nunhead to Lewisham link

Southern Railway having absorbed the previously separate LCDR and South Eastern Railway (SER) sought to link its two networks to enable cross London freight. The section of the "Greenwich Park branch" as far as Lewisham station was reopened, connecting to the SER lines at Lewisham. The line was electrified in September 1935 ^[1], allowing passenger trains from Dartford to access Victoria.

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