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Sydenham
Sydenham stn building.JPG
Sydenham station main entrance
Sydenham is located in Greater London
Sydenham

Location of Sydenham in Greater London
Location Sydenham
Local authority London Borough of Lewisham
Managed by London Overground
Owner Network Rail
Station code SYD
Platforms in use 2
Accessible Handicapped/disabled access [1]
Fare zone 3
National Rail annual entry and exit
2004/5 1.586 million[2]
2005/6 1.544 million[2]
2006/7 2.139 million[2]
2007/8 2.211 million[2]
5 June 1839 Opened by the London & Croydon Railway
23rd May 2010 East London Line starts [3]
List of stations Underground · National Rail
External links Departures • Layout
  Facilities • Buses

Coordinates: 51°25′31″N 0°03′16″W / 51.4254°N 0.0544°W / 51.4254; -0.0544

Sydenham railway station serves Sydenham in the London Borough of Lewisham. It is at the junction between the main line from London Bridge to Brighton at the junction with the line to Crystal Palace. The station is situated on Sydenham Road (A212). It has two platforms, each of which have shelters: four tracks run through the station. The station layout is unusual in that the two platforms only partly face each other, but are partly staggered on either side of the foot bridge.

Sydenham station has three entrances. The main entrance is the ticket office which a newsagents, ticket barriers, two ticket machines and two office windows this is on platform 2. The second is only open when the ticket office is closed (on platform 2) and the third entrance is on platform 1 and was upgraded from a 'back gate' to a shelter with a information screen, a ticket machine, two help points, and ticket barries in late 2009, this gives step free access to both platforms.[4]

Contents

History

Sydenham station is on the site of the former Croydon Canal which was purchased and drained by the London & Croydon Railway and re-opened on 5 June 1839. Around 1844 the 'Up' (London bound) platform was re-sited during the installation of the Atmospheric railway equipment used by the railway.[5] The railway became a part of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in July 1846 and the following year 'Atmospheric' working was abandoned.

The 'Down' (Croydon bound) platform had to be moved to the north of the road bridge, creating the current unusual platform layout, in 1852 as a result of the construction of the branch line to Crystal Palace railway station.[6]. The up platform was again moved north of Sydenham Road and the old platform was closed and demolished.

There are, or have been, three other stations in the Sydenham area:

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

Services

Looking north

The typical off-peak service is six trains an hour northbound to London Bridge and six trains an hour southbound, of which two run to Sutton via Penge West, Anerley and West Croydon, two to Caterham via East Croydon (fast to Norwood Junction) and two London Victoria, via Crystal Palace. Peak time and Sunday services include trains to Tattenham Corner, Dorking and to Guildford.

National Rail National Rail
Forest Hill   Southern
South London Line (Outer)		   Crystal Palace
  Southern
Brighton Main Line		   Penge West
or
Norwood Junction

Future

Sydenham will form part of the new East London Line southbound route of the London Overground network that is due to open in May 2010.

In a rail meeting in Sydenham, Southern said Thameslink trains may stop here after the Thameslink Programme is completed in 2015. Also Southern and Transport for London confirmed that off-peak and evening peak services will be cut from 6 trains per hour and 4 to London Bridge while East London Line services will run at 8 trains per hour after May 2010, this has large local opposition.[3]

Arrangement after East London Line extension opens
Preceding station   Overground notextroundel.svg National Rail London Overground   Following station
Forest Hill   East London Line
under construction		   Crystal Palace
Terminus
Penge West
National Rail National Rail
Forest Hill   Southern
South London Line (Outer)		   Crystal Palace
  Southern
Brighton Main Line		   Penge West
or
Norwood Junction

References

  1. ^ "London and South East". Rail Map for People with Reduced Mobility. National Rail. September 2006. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/system/galleries/download/mobility_maps/LondonSouthEast.pdf. Retrieved 1 January 2010.  
  2. ^ a b c d Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Sydenham railway station (London) from Office of Rail Regulation statistics
  3. ^ a b http://sydenham.org.uk/news_railway_09_09.html Sydenham Town: Sydenham Services from 2010
  4. ^ National Rail: Sydenham Station map
  5. ^ Turner, John Howard (1978). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway 1 Origins and Formation. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-0257-X.   p. 250.
  6. ^ Turner, John Howard (1978). The London Brighton and South Coast Railway 2 Establishment and Growth. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-1198-8.   p. 41-5.

External links

Further information about Sydenham station.








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