Sundridge Park railway station serves Sundridge and Plaistow in the

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, in

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. It is down the line from . The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by

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Location

Sundridge Park station is located between

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and Grove Park, on Plaistow Lane, Bromley, on the northern edge of the borough of

.Sundridge Park
''Southeastern'' Retrieved 2008-05-04 The station is so close to Bromley North (just up the line) that the latter's platform indicator is a part of the starting signal for the southbound platform. The station's namesake of the vast Sundridge Park, which is currently entirely occupied by a private golf course and inaccessible as a park, is located about north east of the station.

Services

All services at Sundridge Park are operated by

using

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 2 tph to * 2 tph to No services call at the station on Sundays or on Bank Holidays. During testing of the Class 376 Electrostars by South Eastern Trains in 2004, the station gained a service to

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. This service was withdrawn after testing, leaving the station with a branch line only service once more.

Connections

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serves the station.

Future proposals

Proposals have been put forward by Transport for London and the

for the Bromley North Line to be extended and connected to either the

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via a link south of , to the

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system from , or to an extension of the Bakerloo line from

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. These schemes have not been taken beyond the proposal stage and recommendations are expected to be published around 2017. Additionally, it has been suggested that the Bromley North Line could be connected to

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via an extended service from , although the problems of line capacity make this seem an unlikely solution.

References

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