Nunhead railway station

Nunhead railway station is in the Nunhead area of the London Borough of Southwark. It is measured from Template:Stn. The station is managed by Thameslink. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.

Services

Services at Nunhead are operated by Southeastern and Thameslink using Template:Brc, Template:Brc, Template:Brc and Template:Brc EMUs.

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

• 2 tph to Template:Stn
• 2 tph to London Blackfriars
• 2 tph to Gravesend via Bexleyheath
• 2 tph to Sevenoaks via Catford

During the peak hours, additional services between Orpington, Template:Stn and Luton call at the station. In addition, the service to London Blackfriars is extended to and from Welwyn Garden City via Template:Stn.

Preceding station	National Rail National Rail			Following station
Peckham Rye		Thameslink Template:Smalldiv		Crofton Park
		Southeastern Template:Smalldiv		Lewisham

History

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A 1908 Railway Clearing House map showing railways in the vicinity of Nunhead (upper right)

The Crystal Palace and South London Junction Railway from Canterbury Road Junction, near Brixton to Crystal Palace (High Level) was opened by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) on 1 August 1865, to take passengers to the Crystal Palace. Train services on the Crystal Palace High Level line ceased in 1917–1919 and 1944–1946 for wartime economies. The line closed to all traffic on 20 September 1954.

The Greenwich Park branch opened 1871 as far as Blackheath Hill, with the final stretch opening in 1888. It closed on 1 January 1917 for wartime economies. The Catford loop line opened on 1 July 1892, giving a second route out of London for the LCDR, and Nunhead became a three-way junction.

In 1925 the lines were electrified, and a new station at Nunhead was built on the London side of the original site. In 1929 the Greenwich Park branch was reopened as far as the site of Lewisham Road where a new connecting line to Lewisham enabled cross-London freight trains to be re-routed to Hither Green. The line was electrified in 1935 for peak hour passenger trains. There is now a frequent service of passenger trains.

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Connections

London Buses route P12 serves the station.

Further reading

• Crystal Palace (High Level) and Catford Loop by V Mitchell & K Smith, Middleton Press, 1991
• The Railway through Sydenham Hill Wood, From the Nun's Head to the Screaming Alice by Mathew Frith, The Friends of the Great North Wood and London Wildlife Trust leaflet, 1995
• London's Local Railways by A A Jackson, David & Charles, 1978
• The Crystal Palace (High Level) Branch by W Smith, British Railway Journal 28, 1989

External links

• Train times and station information for Nunhead railway station from National Rail
• Photographs of original station