Camberwell railway station

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Former Camberwell railway station building

Camberwell railway station was a railway station on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LC&DR). It opened in 1862 as part of the company's ambitious second London railway. In 1863 the name was changed to Camberwell New Road but in 1908 reverted to Camberwell. As with many other London stations wartime restraints forced it to close in 1916. ^[1]

For most of the last century, Camberwell has not had an open railway station. This has led to calls for a station on or near to the old Camberwell station. There is a noticeably long gap between Blackfriars station and Loughborough Junction on Thameslink, which is unsurprising considering there were once four additional stations on the route, all of which were closed by 1916.^[2]

The station was mentioned in the 1956 film Private's Progress as a good place to get off a train and avoid paying a fare. It was made to sound like a working station, despite the fact that it had closed nearly thirty years before the film was set.