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Nunhead Railway StationNunhead railway station serves Nunhead in the London Borough of Southwark. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Eastern Trains. The station has been the junction for three separate lines: - the original line from Canterbury Road Junction, near Brixton to Crystal Palace (High Level) opened by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) on 1 August 1865. The line was built to take passengers to the Crystal Palace exhibition site: train services on the line ceased from 1917-1919 and from 1944-1946 for wartime economies. The line finally closed to all traffic on 20 September 1954,
- the Catford Loop line was opened on 1 July 1892. It gave a second route out of London for the LCDR, and Nunhead thus became a junction.
- the Nunhead - Greenwich Park line was opened 1871. That branch was closed on 1 January 1926.
In 1925, the lines in the area were electrified, and a new station at Nunhead was built on the London side of the original site. In 1929 cross-London freight services were re-routed to Hither Green, and a connection to Lewisham was built: passenger trains began to use that link from 1935. It is now used extensively, and the typical service at the station is two trains an hour from London Victoria to Dartford via Bexleyheath. There are also two trains an hour from London Blackfriars to Sevenoaks on the Catford Loop. External links
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