New Eltham railway station is in the

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in south-east

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. It is down the line from . It is operated by

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and is in

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. It has two platforms: Platform 1 the "up" platform for services to London and Platform 2 the "down" platform, for services towards Kent.

History

New Eltham New Eltham is an area of south east London, in the London Boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley. It lies south east of Eltham and north west of Sidcup. History New Eltham is a largely residential suburb of Greater London developed on former farmla ...

station was opened as Pope Street Station in April 1878, twelve years after the opening of the

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. The station was renamed New Eltham in 1886 although Pope Street was retained as a suffix until 1927. It had a goods yard on the up side which closed in 1963 and eventually became a car park, and a signal box just beyond the western end of the down platform. In 1955 the platforms were extended to take ten carriage trains. In the same year the signal box was taken out of use and demolished. The up side booking office was rebuilt in 1988.

Location

The station is located in

in a shallow cutting near the crossroads of Footscray Road and Avery Hill Road.

Connections

London Buses route 160, 162,

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and B13 serve the station.

Facilities

The station has been added to the Department for Transport "Access for All" scheme. The footbridge linking the two platforms was removed in the summer of 2013 and replaced with a new accessible footbridge with lifts which became operational in December 2014. Both platforms are accessible without using steps.

Services

All services at New Eltham are operated by

using , , and EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 4 tph to London Charing Cross (2 of these run non-stop from to and 2 call at ) * 2 tph to of which 2 continue to During the peak hours, the station is served by an additional half-hourly circular service to and from London Cannon Street via in the clockwise direction and and in the anticlockwise direction. The station is also served by a single peak hour return service between Dartford and London Blackfriars.

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{{TSGN and SE Stations, FCC None=y, SN None=y, Sidcup=y Railway stations in the Royal Borough of Greenwich Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1878 Railway stations served by Southeastern