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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 Line, Bexleyheath Line, South Eastern Main Line, Dartford Loop Line and Hayes Line. The Docklands Light Railway station opened in 1999, a southward extension from Island Gardens.

Contents

Station layout

Services

Destinations

Trivia

External links

Station layout

There are four platforms for Southeastern train services: 1 and 2 on the North Kent Line, and 3 and 4 serving the South Eastern Main Line. The former, the original part of the station, opened on 30 July 1849, the South Eastern Main 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. 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

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.

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, Devons Road, Bow Church, Pudding Mill Lane and Stratford

★ Westferry, Limehouse, Shadwell, Tower Gateway and Bank

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.

★ Unusually, the Docklands Light Railway extension was completed ahead of time and under budget.

External links

★ Docklands Light Railway website - Lewisham station page