Lewisham station
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| Place | Lewisham | ||
| Local authority | Lewisham | ||
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| Managed by | Southeastern (Pl. 1-4) Docklands Light Railway (Pl. 5&6) |
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| Platforms in use | 6 | ||
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| Station code | LEW | ||
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| Zone | 2 and 3 | ||
| History | |||
| Key dates | Opened 1849 DLR extension 1999 |
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Lewisham station is a main-line railway and Docklands Light Railway station in Lewisham, south east London.
The main-line station serves the North Kent and Mid-Kent lines. The Docklands Light Railway station opened in 1999, a southward extension from Island Gardens.
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[edit] Station layout
There are four platforms for Southeastern train services: 1 and 2 on the North Kent Line, and 3 and 4 serving the Mid-Kent Line. The former, the original part of the station, opened on 30 July 1849, the Mid-Kent Line on 1 January 1857. In 1929 large-scale remodelling of the junction was undertaken to enable cross-London freight traffic to be routed via Nunhead and Loughborough Junction. The new route utilised part of the former Greenwich Park branch and included a flyover. Some trains heading to/from London use the flyover and then descend via Tanners Hill Junction to rejoin the main line, using a reversible line which opened in 1976. Mid-Kent trains from London, having passed through the station, curve round under the main line to Hither Green en route to Ladywell.
Platforms 5 and 6 are served by Docklands Light Railway trains to Bank Station and Stratford station
[edit] Services
Trains go to London Bridge, Charing Cross, Cannon Street and Victoria, and to Hayes, Dartford, Orpington and the Medway Towns. Lewisham is also the southern terminus of the DLR, the previous station being Elverson Road. Lewisham is on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 2 and Zone 3 and is a major transport hub, with many buses either passing through or terminating here.
[edit] Destinations
Southeastern rail services operate from Lewisham station to:
- St Johns, New Cross, London Bridge, Waterloo East, Charing Cross and Cannon Street.
- Nunhead, Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill and Victoria
- Charlton, Woolwich Dockyard, Woolwich Arsenal, Plumstead, Abbey Wood, Belvedere, Erith, Slade Green, Dartford, Stone Crossing, Greenhithe (for Bluewater), Swanscombe, Northfleet, Gravesend, Higham, Strood, Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham.
- Blackheath, Kidbrooke, Eltham, Falconwood, Welling, Bexleyehath and Barnehurst
- Hither Green, Lee, Mottingham, New Eltham, Sidcup, Albany Park, Bexley, Crayford
- Ladywell, Catford Bridge, Lower Sydenham, New Beckenham, Clock House, Elmers End, Eden Park, West Wickham and Hayes (Kent)
Docklands Light Railway rail services operate from Lewisham station to:
- Elverson Road, Greewnich, Cutty Sark, Island Gardens, Mudchute, Crossharbour, South Quay, Heron Quays, Canary Wharf, West India Quay, Poplar, Deveons Road, Bow Church, Pudding Mill Lane and Stratford
- Westferry, Limehouse, Shadwell, Tower Gateway and Bank
[edit] Trivia
- The second episode of the 1979 LWT comedy series End of Part One includes the main characters watching a film called "The Life of Christopher Columbus". In the film, Columbus goes to a tube station and asks for a train to America, but is told he can only go as far as Catford. Part of a modified tube map is shown which shows the fictitious tube stations Lewisham, Ladywell, Edge of the World and Catford on the East London Section of the Metropolitan Line south from New Cross tube station. There is an actual part of the mainline Mid-Kent Railway that interchanges with New Cross tube station, and the stations are, southwards in order: St. John's, Lewisham, Ladywell and Catford Bridge (Catford on a different line interchanges with the latter).
- The train station is twinned with Lewisham railway station, Sydney.
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Lewisham station from National Rail
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