New Cross station

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New Cross
Location
Place New Cross
Local authority Lewisham
Operations
Station code NWX
Managed by Southeastern
Platforms in use 3[1]
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Passenger Usage
2004/05 * 2.065 million
2005/06 * 2.041 million
Transport for London
Zone 2
Annual usage 2.62 million †
History
Key dates Opened October 1850
Transport for London
List of London stations: Underground | National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at New Cross from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
Portal:New Cross station
 UK Railways Portal


See also the nearby New Cross Gate station, formerly called New Cross as well.

New Cross station, in New Cross, is a station for London Underground (though closed until 2010) and for mainline trains. The platforms are lettered A to D to differentiate them from those at New Cross Gate station .

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[edit] History

In the early Victorian railway boom two companies constructed lines through the area. The London and Croydon Railway (L&CR) built a station on the New Cross Road close to Hatcham in 1839. In 1849 the South Eastern Railway (SER) put its station about 600 metres further east along the New Cross Road in the heart of New Cross. Both stations were named "New Cross", creating a confusion which lasted until the two companies were absorbed under the 1923 grouping into the Southern Railway and the name of the older station was changed to New Cross Gate; the ex-South Eastern station remained New Cross.

New Cross was intended to be taken over by the Jubilee Line, then the Fleet Line, up to Stanmore, Wembley Park and Fenchurch Street but this never materialized.

[edit] Accidents

[edit] Services

Main-line services are operated by Southeastern from Cannon Street or Charing Cross to north and mid Kent. The next stations are London Bridge to the north and St Johns to the south.

For London Underground it was formerly a southern terminus of the East London Line, the next station being Surrey Quays.

[edit] London Overground

The East London Line closed on 22 December 2007, and will not reopen until June 2010 when it will become part of the new London Overground system. The service was also closed between 1995 and 1998 due to repair work on the East London Line's Thames Tunnel.

[edit] References

  1. ^ New Cross has a total of four platforms - 3 are on the National Rail network and are used by Southeastern and the fourth is the terminus of the ELL, which will be used by London Overground from 2010
  2. ^ Middlemass, Tom (1995). Stroudley and his Terriers. York: Pendragon, p79. ISBN 1 899816 00 3. 

[edit] External links

Coordinates: 51°28′36″N, 0°01′58″W

[edit] Gallery

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Looking south along platforms C and B, country-bound

Looking north, London-bound

Underground train at New Cross bay platform D prior to closure and refurbishment of the East London line in 2007

Looking north from the A2 New Cross Road, with platform A nearest the camera

[edit] Services

Preceding station   London Underground   Following station
towards Shoreditch
 East London line
(bus replacement service until 2010)		 Terminus
National Rail
Surrey Quays   London Overground
East London Railway
under construction		   Terminus
London Bridge   Southeastern
Hayes Line and Dartford Loop Line		   St Johns

[edit] Abandoned Plans

Preceding station   London Underground   Following station
Surrey Docks (Surrey Quays)   Jubilee Line
Phase 2
(Never completed)		   Lewisham