Greenwich Park railway station

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Greenwich Park from which the station took its name

Greenwich Park railway station was a railway station in Greenwich, London opened in 1888 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. It was intended to rival the South Eastern Railway's Greenwich railway station which had opened over 50 years earlier. It served as the terminus for the Greenwich Park branch, which ran from Nunhead to Greenwich Park. It took its name from the nearby Greenwich Park, home of the Royal Observatory.^[1]

Despite being on a prime location (on Stockwell Street - the site is today occupied by a hotel), it failed to attract sufficient passenger numbers possibly because the rival Greenwich station offered a more direct journey into central London. Due to wartime economies, and along with several other London railway stations it closed in 1917 along with the northern section of the line. Part of the southern section of the line was taken over by the South Eastern Railway and re-opened to allow trains to run between Lewisham and Nunhead providing the company with another route into central London.^[2]

Today virtually nothing remains of the station, or any of the railway north-east of Lewisham Road railway station. A direct rail link between Greenwich and Lewisham was not restored until the Lewisham extension to the Docklands Light Railway opened in 1999.