Nunhead Railway Station - History

History

The Crystal Palace and South London Junction Railway 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 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 became a three way junction. The Nunhead to Greenwich Park line was opened 1871 as far Blackheath Hill with the final stretch to Greenwich park opening in 1888. The branch was closed on 1 January 1917 for wartime economies.

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 the Greenwich Park branch was reopened as far as the site of Lewisham Road where a new connecting line was built to Lewisham to enable cross-London freight services to be re-routed to Hither Green. The line was electrified in 1935 when peak hour passenger trains began to use the link. There is now frequent service of passenger trains using the line.