Abbey Wood railway station

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Abbey Wood
Abbey Wood railway station (2006)
Location
Place	London
Local authority	London Borough of Bexley
Coordinates	51°29′25″N 0°07′16″E / 51.4903, 0.12113Coordinates: 51°29′25″N 0°07′16″E / 51.4903, 0.12113
Grid reference	TQ473789
Operations
Station code	ABW
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2002/03 *	2.425 million
2004/05 *	2.202 million
2005/06 *	2.090 million
History
30 July 1849	Opened
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Abbey Wood from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Abbey Wood railway station serves the suburb of Abbey Wood in South East London. It is served by Southeastern, and is between Plumstead and Belvedere stations on the North Kent Line. Crossrail line 1's south eastern branch is expected to terminate here, as is the Greenwich Waterfront Transit a putative segregated busway. Local interests are campaigning for both these schemes to extend further eastwards, to Ebbsfleet/Gravesend and Erith respectively.

The station's name boards identify it as Abbey Wood for Thamesmead, as it is the closest railway station to Thamesmead (buses run from the station to Thamesmead proper).

Contents 1 History 2 Services 3 Routes 4 References

[edit] History

Opened by the South Eastern Railway in 1849, then by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, it became part of the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When BR was divided into sectors in the 1980's the station was served by Network South East until the Privatisation of British Railways.

During the 1860s William Morris famously used a decorated wagon to commute between this station and his new home at Red House, Bexleyheath, occasionally with his eccentric and artistic house guests.

The station has been rebuilt twice over the past 50 years to cater for the changing nature of the area^[1].

[edit] Services

Currently (Autumn 2007) the weekday daytime service pattern consists of 6 trains an hour in each direction along the North Kent Line: three routes each operating at a 30 minute frequency:

• Charing Cross to Gillingham (fast)
• Cannon Street to Dartford via Greenwich (stopping)
• Cannon Street to Slade Green via Greenwich (and then returning to Cannon Street via Sidcup) (stopping)

The two stopping services are timed to give a 15 minute frequency on the North Kent Line stopping everywhere between Cannon Street and Slade Green.

[edit] Routes

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Plumstead		Southeastern North Kent Line		Belvedere
Disused Railways
Church Manor Way Halt		Southern Railway North Kent Line		Belvedere

Future Development

Preceding station		Crossrail		Following station
Woolwich toward Maidenhead or Heathrow Airport		Crossrail		Terminus

[edit] References

• R.V.J.Butt, (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd.  ISBN 1 85260 508 1

• A. Jowett, (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas. Atlantic Publishing.  ISBN 0 906899 99 0

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