- Hayes Line
The Hayes Line is the
railway service in south eastLondon ,United Kingdom operated by Southeastern between Charing Cross or Cannon Street and Hayes in theLondon Borough of Bromley . Part of its route follows theMid-Kent Railway .The line was electrified with the other SECR urban routes during the interwar years by Southern Railway.
During the planning of the Fleet line, now the
Jubilee line it was intended that the line would continue on from Charing Cross and then travel through Central London with stations at Aldwych, Ludgate Circus (City Thameslink), Canon Street and Fenchurch Street then taking over theEast London line continuing to Lewisham; a further extension envisiged from Lewisham to Hayes and Addiscombe was planned by taking over theHayes line from theNational Rail network. However, after many changes, the Fleet line was renamed the current Jubilee line and eventually took a completely new alignment from Green Park and today the Jubilee platforms at Charing Cross are no longer in use.Description of the route
*Services commence at either Charing Cross via Waterloo East, or Cannon Street.
*London Bridge - North Kent Junction,Bermondsey : The pioneerLondon and Greenwich Railway opened its line on8 February 1836. This section is built on a brick viaduct
*North Kent Junction - Lewisham: opened30 July 1849 as the North Kent Railway, now called theNorth Kent line . Most of the railway here is in cutting with the four tracks passing throughSt Johns railway station , the two northernmost leading into Lewisham station.
*Lewisham - New Beckenham: opened1 January 1857 as theMid-Kent line . This opening created a junction at Lewisham.
*New Beckenham - Elmers End: opened on1 April 1864 as part of an extension of the Mid-Kent line to Addiscombe
*Elmers End - Hayes: this section was built by the West Wickham & Hayes Railway, but was sold to the South Eastern Railway on opening day,29 May 1882The
Strategic Rail Authority had proposed replacing the Charing Cross services with Cannon Street services Specify|date=December 2006. Following pressure from local groups it is understood that trains will still run both to Charing Cross and Cannon Street.There is a limited service to Beckenham Junction.
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