Nunhead railway station

Nunhead

The entrance to Nunhead station
Nunhead Location of Nunhead in Greater London
Location	Nunhead
Local authority	Southwark
Managed by	Southeastern
Station code	NHD
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
National Rail annual entry and exit
2004-05	0.444 million[1]
2005-06	0.425 million[1]
2006-07	0.800 million[1]
2007-08	0.896 million[1]
2008-09	0.925 million[1]
2009-10	0.927 million[1]
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
1 September 1871	Opened
3 May 1925	Resited north
List of stations	Underground · National Rail
External links	Departures • Layout
	Facilities • Buses
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Coordinates: 51°28′02″N 0°03′10″W / 51.4671°N 0.0527°W / 51.4671; -0.0527

Nunhead railway station is a railway station in the Nunhead area of the London Borough of Southwark. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern.^[2] It is in Travelcard Zone 2.

Services

The typical off-peak service is:

• 2 trains per hour (tph) to Kentish Town via Peckham Rye (Monday to Saturday)
• 2 tph to London Victoria via Peckham Rye

• 2 tph to Sevenoaks via Bromley South
• 2 tph to Dartford via Bexleyheath (Monday to Saturday)

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Peckham Rye		First Capital Connect Sevenoaks Line Limited service		Crofton Park
Peckham Rye		Southeastern Nunhead to Lewisham link		Lewisham
		Southeastern Catford Loop Line		Crofton Park

History

A 1908 Railway Clearing House map showing railways in the vicinity of Nunhead (upper right)

The Crystal Palace and South London Junction Railway line from Canterbury Road Junction, near Brixton to Crystal Palace (High Level) opened by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) on 1 August 1865; the line was built to take passengers to the Crystal Palace exhibition site. Train services on the line ceased from 1917–1919 and from 1944-1946 for wartime economies. The line closed to all traffic on 20 September 1954.

The Catford Loop line was opened on 1 July 1892. It gave a second route out of London for the LCDR, and Nunhead became a three way junction. The Nunhead to Greenwich Park line was opened 1871 as far Blackheath Hill with the final stretch to Greenwich park opening in 1888. The branch was closed on 1 January 1917 for wartime economies.

In 1925, the lines in the area were electrified, and a new station at Nunhead was built on the London side of the original site. In 1929 the Greenwich Park branch was reopened as far as the site of Lewisham Road where a new connecting line was built to Lewisham to enable cross-London freight services to be re-routed to Hither Green. The line was electrified in 1935 when peak hour passenger trains began to use the link. There is now frequent service of passenger trains using the line.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Peckham Rye		London, Chatham and Dover Railway Greenwich Park branch		Brockley Lane
		London, Chatham and Dover Railway Crystal Palace Branch		Honor Oak

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "Station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. 30 April 2010. http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1529. Retrieved 17 January 2011.  Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
2. ^ Southeastern - Station facilities: Nunhead

Further reading

• Crystal Palace (High Level) and Catford Loop by V Mitchell & K Smith, Middleton Press, 1991
• The Railway through Sydenham Hill Wood, From the Nun's Head to the Screaming Alice by Mathew Frith, The Friends of the Great North Wood and London Wildlife Trust leaflet 1995
• London's Local Railways by A A Jackson, David & Charles, 1978
• The Crystal Palace (High Level) Branch by W Smith, British Railway Journal 28, 1989

External links

• Train times and station information for Nunhead railway station from National Rail
• Photographs of original station