New Cross Gate Station
New Cross Gate is a train station in the London Borough of Lewisham . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2 at the intersection of New Cross Road and Hatcham Park Road, about 600 meters west of New Cross train station .
One of the branches of the East London Line , a line of the London Overground , runs through New Cross Gate . Southern railroad trains operate on the Brighton Main Line between London Bridge and Brighton . In 2013, 4.369 million passengers used the station.
railroad
During the British railway boom in the late 1830s, two different companies built lines in the area. The London and Croydon Railway (L&CR) opened a station on June 5, 1839 at the junction of New Cross Road and Hatcham Park Road. The South Eastern Railway (SER) followed on October 1, 1850 with a station at the junction of New Cross Road and Amersham Way. Both companies named their stations New Cross .
This confusing situation persisted until 1923 when both companies were absorbed by the Southern Railway . To avoid further confusion, the station on the route to Brighton was renamed New Cross Gate .
East London Line
On December 1, 1884, the Metropolitan Railway (MR, now Metropolitan Line ) and the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, now District Line ) began operating. At the beginning, the MDR platforms were a few dozen meters away, but were moved to the actual station on August 31, 1886 in order to create better transfer options. The MDR ceased operations on July 31, 1905, the MR on December 2, 1906, so that the line was temporarily only used for freight traffic. From March 31, 1913, trains of the MR ran again on the now electrified East London Line. Since the closure of the St Mary's Curve at Whitechapel on October 5, 1941, the East London Line was operationally independent.
Between March 25, 1995 and March 25, 1998, the entire route was closed to all traffic due to renovation and modernization work. On December 22, 2007, the East London Line was closed again to modernize and extend it at both ends. After two and a half years of construction, it has been open again since April 27, 2010 and is now part of London Overground. New Cross Gate was initially the southern terminus for four weeks, and since May 23, 2010 the trains have continued to Crystal Palace and West Croydon .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on July 28, 2014 (English).
- ↑ a b East London Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 7, 2013 .
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| London Bridge |
Southern Brighton Main Line |
Norwood Junction | ||
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Southern Brighton Main Line |
Brockley | |||
| Surrey Quays |
London Overground East London Line |
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Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 31 ″ N , 0 ° 2 ′ 25.4 ″ W.