Charlton railway station is a railway station in Charlton,

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. It is measured from . The station is operated by

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. Trains serving the station are operated by

and

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. It is in

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. Charlton station is within walking distance of The Valley, home of Charlton Athletic F.C. It was first opened in 1849 by the South Eastern Railway on the

North Kent Line The North Kent Line is a railway line which branches off the South East Main Line at St Johns junction west of Lewisham station in Greater London and runs to Rochester Bridge Junction near Strood, Medway where it links to the Chatham Main Li ...

and is close to the junction where the routes via and converge (the link from Greenwich and being completed in 1878).

Services

Services at Charlton are operated by

and

using , , , and EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 4 tph to London Cannon Street (2 of these run via and 2 run via ) * 2 tph to via Greenwich * 2 tph to , returning to London Cannon Street via and Lewisham * 2 tph to * 2 tph to via During the peak hours, the station is served by an additional half-hourly circular service to and from London Cannon Street via and Lewisham in the clockwise direction and via Greenwich in the anticlockwise direction.

Connections

London Buses routes 161, 177, 180,

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, 486 and night route N1 serve the station.

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1849 establishments in England Railway stations served by Govia Thameslink Railway