Petts Wood railway station serves Petts Wood in the London Borough of Bromley, and is in Travelcard Zone 5. The station was built on the main line to the north of Orpington and opened on 9 July 1928, and the community now surrounding it developed from that date: now the railway divides Petts Wood East and Petts Wood West.
It has four platform faces on islands located between the slow and fast pairs of tracks. To the north of station is Petts Wood Junction where the Up and Down Loop lines link the lines from Charing Cross and Victoria.
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