Greenwich Railway Station

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Station building

Greenwich is a train station in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London . It is located on the border of the Travelcard tariff zones 2 and 3 on Greenwich High Road, about 400 meters southwest of the historic center of Greenwich . There is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station next to the station . In 2013, 3.545 million passengers used the station (no user figures are available for DLR).

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A Southeastern train pulls into the station
Docklands Light Railway platform

The station is served by Southeastern trains that run from Charing Cross and London Bridge to Dartford . To the east of the station, the Greenwich Line runs through an approximately 900 meter long tunnel that crosses under the National Maritime Museum and leads to the nearest station, Maze Hill .

The Docklands Light Railway also reaches the station through a tunnel. This begins on the Isle of Dogs , crosses under the Thames , follows Greenwich High Road and, after crossing under the station area, comes back to the surface. The DLR station is located west of the railway platforms. Immediately afterwards a viaduct begins, which follows the river Ravensbourne to the terminus Lewisham .

history

Greenwich railway station is one of the oldest in all of London, and the London and Greenwich Railway is even considered the oldest suburban railway in the world. A massive brick viaduct with 878 arches connected Greenwich to London. From February 8, 1836, the route initially led from Spa Road in Bermondsey to Deptford . Almost ten months later, on December 14, 1836, it was extended to London Bridge Station . On December 24, 1838, the railroad finally reached Greenwich. The station building erected at that time is still standing today and is one of the oldest preserved in the world.

The railway company could not agree with Greenwich Hospital about the course of the further route, so that Greenwich remained the terminus for more than forty years. The trains therefore had to make a detour via Lewisham. The tunnel to Maze Hill was only opened on February 1, 1878. The opening of the DLR route between Crossharbour and Lewisham took place on November 20, 1999.

Web links

Commons : Greenwich Railway Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on July 28, 2014 (English).
  2. ^ Christian Wolmar : Fire and steam: a new history of the railways in Britain . Atlantic Books, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-84354-629-0 , pp. 58 .
  3. ↑ Disused stations: Spa Road & Bermondsey. Disused stations site record, April 20, 2010, accessed January 5, 2013 .
  4. ^ Greenwich Day by Day. Greenwich guide, accessed January 5, 2013 .
  5. ^ Docklands Light Railway. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 5, 2013 .
Previous station Transport for London Next station
Cutty Sark   Docklands Light Railway   Deptford Bridge
Previous station National Rail Next train station
Deptford   Southeastern
Greenwich Line 		  Maze Hill

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 41.2 "  N , 0 ° 0 ′ 51.5"  W.