Forest Hill railway station

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Template other Forest Hill is an interchange station between the Windrush line of the London Overground and National Rail services operated by Southern, located in Forest Hill in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is Template:Miles-chains down the line from Template:Stn, between Template:Rws and Template:Rws, in Travelcard Zone 3. There are four tracks through the station, although only the slow lines (the two outer tracks) have platforms.

The station adjoins a road which serves as part of the A205 South Circular Road. There are two entrances, the main one being on platform 1 at the bottom of the South Circular Road, and a side entrance on platform 2 on Perry Vale. The ticket office is placed in the main entrance, although there are ticket machines outside both entrances.

History

The station was opened by the original London & Croydon Railway (L&CR) on 5 June 1839, as Dartmouth Arms (the name of the local inn).

The line was also used by the London and Brighton Railway from 1841 and the South Eastern Railway (SER) from 1842. In 1844, the station was chosen by the L&CR as the northern terminus for Phase 1 of an experimental atmospheric railway to West Croydon. A pumping station was also constructed at the station. The L&CR and the L&BR merged to form the London Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) in July 1846; the following year "atmospheric" working was abandoned. In 1845 the station became Forest Hill for Lordship Lane.

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A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines around the Brighton Main Line between South Croydon and Selhurst/Forest Hill, as well as surrounding lines

The LB&SCR moved the Down platform during the early 1850s when the line was quadrupled, and extended the island platform around 1864.

The LB&SCR station buildings were badly damaged by bombing during World War II but were patched up and survived until British Rail demolished them in 1972 and built a much smaller CLASP system-built prefabricated station building that remains in use to this day. The short narrow island platform serving the fast lines was demolished in the early 1960s.

Services

Forest Hill is on the Windrush line of the London Overground, with services operated using Template:Brc EMUs. Additional services are operated by Southern using Template:Brc EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

• 2 tph to Template:Stn
• 8 tph to Template:Stn via Surrey Quays (Windrush line)
• 2 tph to Template:Stn via Streatham Hill
• 4 tph to Crystal Palace (Windrush line)
• 4 tph to Template:Stn (Windrush line)

The station is also served by a single early morning and late evening service to Template:Stn via Norwood Junction, with the early morning service continuing to Tattenham Corner and Caterham.

Connections

London Buses routes 122, 176, 185, 197 and 356 serve the station.

External links

• Train times and station information for Forest Hill railway station from National Rail