Abbey Wood Railway Station

Abbey Wood railway station serves the suburb of Abbey Wood in south east London. It is served by Southeastern, and is between and stations on the North Kent Line and local Greenwich Line services. The station will be served by Crossrail and Thameslink from 2018, giving a direct service to Central London and onto Heathrow, Maidenhead and Reading and Luton. For now Southeastern will serve the station until the given date. It is the closest railway station to the suburb of Thamesmead (buses run from the station to Thamesmead proper). Alphabetically, it is the second station in the UK, after Abbey Road DLR station. HistoryOpened by the South Eastern Railway on 30 July 1849, the operations of which were handed over to the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1899, 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 1980s the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways.

Abbey Wood railway station serves the suburb of Abbey Wood in south east London. It is served by Southeastern, and is between and stations on the North Kent Line and local Greenwich Line services. The station will be served by Crossrail and Thameslink from 2018, giving a direct service to Central London and onto Heathrow, Maidenhead and Reading and Luton. For now Southeastern will serve the station until the given date. It is the closest railway station to the suburb of Thamesmead (buses run from the station to Thamesmead proper). Alphabetically, it is the second station in the UK, after Abbey Road DLR station. HistoryOpened by the South Eastern Railway on 30 July 1849, the operations of which were handed over to the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1899, 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 1980s the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways.