SideTracked - Nunhead
There has been more than one station here at Nunhead.
The Crystal Palace and South London Junction Railway from Canterbury Road Junction, near Brixton to Crystal Palace (High Level) was opened by the London, Chatham and Dover TRailway (LCDR) on 1 August 1865, to take visitors to the Crystal Palace. Train services on the Crystal Palace High Level line paused during WWI and WWII and eventually the line closed to all traffic on 20 September 1954.
The Greenwich Park branch opened 1871 as far as Blackheath Hill, with the final stretch opening in 1888. It closed on 1 January 1917 for wartime economies. The Catford loop line opened on 1 July 1892, giving a second route out of London for the LCDR, and Nunhead became a three-way junction.
In 1925 the lines were electrified and a new station at Nunhead was built on the London side of the original site. In 1929 the Greenwich was reopened as far as the site of Lewisham Road where a new connecting line to Lewisham enabled cross-London freight trains to be re-routed to Hither Green. The line was electrified in 1935 for peak hour passenger trains. There are now frequent passenger trains.
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