East Croydon Railway Station
| East Croydon | |
|---|---|
 The platforms of the station
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 6 railroad
3 Tramlink |
| abbreviation | ECR |
| IBNR | 7000763 |
| opening | 1841 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect |
David Mocatta old train station
Alan Brooke's new train station |
| location | |
| City / municipality | London |
| London Borough | London Borough of Croydon |
| Part of the country | England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 22 ′ 31 " N , 0 ° 5 ′ 32" W |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in the United Kingdom | |
The East Croydon station is a rail transport hub in the London Borough of Croydon in Travelcard Zone 5. It is the largest train station in London outside the Travelcard Zone 1 and is in the property of Network Rail is, however, of Southern managed. In addition to Southern trains, Thameslink also operates the station, and until 2009 Cross Country and Southeastern trains also stopped . The Gatwick Express goes through without stopping.
history
London and Brighton Railway
In 1841 the station was opened under the name Croydon by the London and Brighton Railway when they opened the London Bridge - Haywards Heath section of today's Brighton Main Line . When the South Eastern Railway (SER) began using the BML to Redhill in 1842 , it also took part in the operation of the station. By means of a contract, the two railways agreed the same tariffs on the shared route.
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
In 1846 the L&BR merged with the London and Croydon Railway to form the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway , which led to the renaming of the station in Croydon East , as the L&CR also owned a Croydon station , which was then renamed Croydon West (now West Croydon ). From 1860 to 1862 LB & SCR built the access routes to London Victoria station . To this end, they built two new platforms right next to Croydon East station, which is now called East Croydon . These were given the name New Croydon and were an independent train station in themselves, with their own ticket offices. Only LB & SCR trains ran on it, which allowed the company to bypass the contract with SER and introduce cheaper prices for the journey to Victoria. However, there were space problems for terminating trains, the locomotives had too little space to get to the other end of the train, so that the LB & SCR extended their local trains by means of parliamentary approval in 1863 by 1.6 kilometers to the new, still existing South Croydon station, where enough Space was available to turn. In 1868, after four years of construction and planning, LB & SCR opened an 800-meter-long branch line to Croydon town center because East Croydon station was too far away. However, the line was not very popular, so it was closed in 1871. It was reopened in 1886, but only four years later, in 1890, after pressure from the city administration, it was finally closed. The site of the former terminus, called Croydon Central , was built over with today's Croydons Town Hall.
Tramlink
In May 2000, the first tram line in London since it was closed in 1952 , which was then still called Croydon Tramlink , opened. It touches East Croydon station with all three lines and also enables a connection to West Croydon station , which is not available by rail.
Conversions
- 1894-1898
The original station was unable to cope with the rapidly increasing traffic volume, including on the Brighton Main Line. Furthermore, a railway line from East Croydon to Oxted and further in two branches to East Grinstead and Uckfield was built, which although it branches off from the BML after South Croydon station, but whose trains also passed East Croydon station. The local transport network in south London was also greatly expanded, so a new line was created from South Croydon to Coulsdon, where it merged into the Quarry Line , the BML bypass of Redhill station. By 1898, East Croydon and New Croydon stations were also built into a single station with the three central platforms that still exist today, but they continued to have two different names. From East Croydon is East Croydon Main and from New Croydon was East Croydon Local . They definitely became a single station in 1924 when they merged into what is now East Croydon Station .
- 1990-1992
In 1990 the more than ninety-year-old reception building was demolished and replaced by a new building planned by the Alan Brookes Associates architecture association , the steel and glass structure of which is connected to a likewise new steel and glass structure that spans the platforms. Four steel masts hold the glass hall above the platforms, like a suspension bridge.
future
- In September 2010 it was announced that the station would be expanded to include another entrance and a new bridge to the center of Croydon for £ 6 million .
Track system
All six tracks on the three central platforms are still used for the railway, in 2000 three more tracks were added for the Tramlink, which are located in front of the main entrance.
- Track 1: Express trains north to London Victoria
- Track 2: Thameslink express trains north to Bedford and express trains south to Brighton and Eastbourne and to other stations on the south coast
- Track 3: Express trains south to Brighton and Eastbourne and to other stations on the south coast
- Track 4: Express and regional trains to London Bridge and occasionally to Victoria
- Track 5: Ending trains, mostly from Milton Keynes
- Track 6: Regional trains to Caterham and Tattenham Corner and trains of the Oxted Line to Oxted, East Grinstead and Uckfield
Rail transport
Southern
As the main user and administrator of the station, Southern operates up to 23 trains per hour in both directions outside of peak hours.
- heading north
- 9 an hour to Victoria, stopping at Clapham Junction only
- 2 per hour to Victoria, regional trains stop at all stations
- 7 an hour to London Bridge, including one without intermediate stops, four only with intermediate stops in Norwood Junction and 2 with stops at all stations via Sydenham
- 1 per hour to Milton Keynes, leads to Clapham Junction on the West London Line and then on the West Coast Main Line
- To the south
- 3 times an hour to Brighton, including two without stops and one with stops at all stations
- 4 times an hour to Caterham
- 4 times an hour to Tattenham Corner
- Twice an hour to East Grinstead
- once an hour to Uckfield
- once an hour to Bognor Regis and Portsmouth Harbor , wing in Horsham
- once an hour to Bognor Regis and Southampton Central , wing in Horsham
- once an hour to Portsmouth Harbor
- once an hour to Southampton Central
- once an hour to Littlehampton and Eastbourne, wing at Haywards Heath
- once an hour to Littlehampton and Hastings with a hairpin at Eastbourne, wing at Haywards Heath
- once an hour to Eastbourne
- once an hour to Hastings with a hairpin in Eastbourne
- once an hour to Horsham
- once an hour to Tonbridge
- once an hour according to Reigate
First Capital Connect
First Capital Connect runs the Bedford – Brighton route via East Croydon every quarter of an hour, but they have different stopping frequencies
- Bedford - London St Pancras - East Croydon - Brighton.
city traffic
bus
The station is an important bus hub with connections to London city center on the one hand, but also to Bromley , Lewisham and South London. A total of eleven bus routes serve the station, and seven more can be reached within seven minutes on foot in the center of Croydon. London's longest bus route, the X26, also passes East Croydon Station on its way from Heathrow Airport to West Croydon.
Tramlink
The Tramlink, which has its stop in front of the main entrance, serves the station with all three lines:
- Line 1: West Croydon - East Croydon - Elmers End
- Line 2: West Croydon - East Croydon - Beckenham Junction
- Line 3: Wimbledon - Mitcham Junction - West Croydon - East Croydon - New Addington
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b David St John Thomas (Ed.), HP White: A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Southern England. Nairn, Scotland 1992. (Regional Railway History Series)
- ^ John Howard Turner: The London Brighton and South Coast Railway 2 Establishment and Growth. Batsford, London 1977.
- ^ John Howard Turner: The London Brighton and South Coast Railway 2 Establishment and Growth. Batsford, London 1978, ISBN 0-7134-1198-8 .
- ^ John Howard Turner: The London Brighton and South Coast Railway 3 Completion and Maturity. Batsford, London 1979, ISBN 0-7134-1389-1 .
- ↑ Kirsty Whalley: Croydon Council pledges £ 6m for station bridge. on: croydonguardian.co.uk , September 16, 2010.