Greenwich Park Branch Line

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The Greenwich Park branch was a railway line in southern London, built by London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) from Nunhead to Greenwich Park.

[edit] LCDR line

Greenwich Park Branch
Legend To London Victoria Nunhead LCDR Crystal Palace line to Crystal Palace High Level Catford Loop Line to Chatham Main Line Brockley Lane Lewisham Road Blackheath Hill Greenwich Park

It ran from a junction at Nunhead, in a generally north-east direction, to a terminus on the Greenwich High Road, close to the north-west corner of Greenwich Park. The line was approximately 3 miles (4.8km) in length. The original plan was for the line to terminate at the Woolwich Dockyard. There is a short tunnel which carried the railway under the A2 at Blackheath Hill. The entrance to the Brockley Lane station in still visible at Brockley Cross.

There were four stations:

• Brockley Lane
• Lewisham Road
• Blackheath Hill (opened 1871. closed 1917)
• Greenwich Park (opened 1888. closed 1917)

All the stations were closed on 1 January 1917, during WWI, and the line was abandoned on 1 January 1926 by Southern Railway.

[edit] Nunhead to Lewisham link

Bexleyheath Line

Legend London Charing Cross River Thames Waterloo East London Cannon Street River Thames London Bridge To Deptford (Greenwich Line) New Cross St Johns London Victoria River Thames Denmark Hill Peckham Rye Nunhead Lewisham To Ladywell (Hayes Line) To Hither Green (South Eastern Main Line) and (Dartford Loop Line) Blackheath To Charlton (North Kent Line) Kidbrooke Tunnel Kidbrooke Eltham (Well Hall) A2 Eltham Eltham Park Falconwood Welling Bexleyheath Barnehurst To Erith (North Kent Line) Slade Green To Crayford (Dartford Loop Line) Dartford To Gillingham (North Kent Line)

Southern Railway having absorbed the previously separate LCDR and South Eastern Railway (SER) sought to link its two networks to enable cross London freight. The section of the "Greenwich Park branch" as far as Lewisham station was reopened on 7 July 1929, connecting to the SER lines at Lewisham. The line was electrified in September 1935 ^[1], allowing passenger trains from Dartford to access Victoria from 30 September 1935 (see Bexleyheath Line).

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