Abbey Wood train station
The Abbey Wood railway station is a station on the border of London boroughs Royal Borough of Greenwich and London Borough of Bexley . It is located in tariff zone 4 on Harrow Manorway. It is served by express trains on the North Kent Line and local trains on the Greenwich Line . From autumn 2019, Abbey Wood will be the southeastern terminus of the Crossrail route towards Heathrow Airport and Reading . In 2016, 2.989 million passengers used the station; it is expected that this number will increase significantly.
history
The South Eastern Railway opened the station on July 30, 1849, along with the Lewisham - Gravesend section of the North Kent Line . In 1899 it was transferred to the South Eastern and Chatham Railway , in 1923 to the Southern Railway and in 1948 to British Rail . Since the renewed privatization in the mid-1990s, the Southeastern railway company has been responsible.
In the 1860s, the artist William Morris often drove with his eccentric guests in an ornate horse-drawn carriage from the Red House to Abbey Wood Station, where they boarded the train to London. In 1987, after almost 140 years of operation, the station was completely rebuilt. Linked to this was the lifting of the level crossing immediately to the east and its replacement by a road bridge.
Expansion to a hub
After Abbey Wood had been set as the southeastern terminus of the future Crossrail route, the station building, which had only been built almost three decades earlier, was demolished in May 2015 as it would have been too small for the additional passengers to be handled. By October 2017, a 130 million pound new building was built, the shape of which is reminiscent of a manta ray . A second platform was added to the existing central platform. The architectural office responsible was Fereday Pollard, the construction work was carried out by a consortium led by Balfour Beatty . Crossrail trains are scheduled to run from December 2019.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Estimates of station usage, 2016/17 data. (Excel) Office of Rail and Road , 2017, accessed April 1, 2018 .
- ^ William Morris and the Red House. Broadway Bexleyheath 1912, October 28, 2012, accessed April 1, 2018 .
- ^ A history of south-east London suburbs. Ideal Homes, 2002, accessed April 1, 2018 .
- ^ Former Abbey Wood station demolished to make way for Crossrail. New Civil Engineer, May 26, 2015, accessed April 1, 2018 .
- ^ A silver ray of regeneration in Abbey Wood - Abbey Wood Crossrail Station, London. Architects Datafile, May 3, 2017, accessed April 1, 2018 .
| Previous station | National Rail | Next train station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woolwich Arsenal |
Southeastern North Kent Line |
Dartford | ||
| Plumstead |
Southeastern Greenwich Line |
Belvedere | ||
| Previous station | Crossrail | Next train station | ||
| Woolwich | Elizabeth Line (from 2018) |
final destination | ||
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 28 ″ N , 0 ° 7 ′ 16.5 ″ E