Lewisham
Location	Lewisham
Local authority	Lewisham
Managed by	Southeastern Docklands Light Railway
Station code(s)	LEW
Number of platforms	6
National Rail annual entry and exit
2004–05	4.071 million[1]
2005–06	4.021 million[1]
2006–07	5.841 million[1]
2007–08	8.248 million[1]
Key dates
1 January 1857	Renamed (Lewisham Junction)
7 July 1929	Renamed (Lewisham)
1999	DLR extension
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
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Lewisham station is a National Rail and Docklands Light Railway station in Lewisham, south east London. The railway station is on the Southeastern London commuter rail network operated by Southeastern^[2]. The Docklands Light Railway station opened in 1999 on a southward extension from Island Gardens on the Isle of Dogs. British Transport Police maintain a neighbourhood policing presence at Lewisham.^[3]

There are four platforms for commuter trains: 1 and 2 on the North Kent Line, and 3 and 4 serving the South Eastern Main Line. The former, the original part of the station, opened on 30 July 1849, the South Eastern Main Line on 1 January 1857. In 1929 large-scale remodelling of the junction was undertaken to enable cross-London freight traffic to be routed via Nunhead and Loughborough Junction. The new route utilised part of the former Greenwich Park branch and included a flyover. Some trains heading to/from London use the flyover and then descend via Tanners Hill Junction to rejoin the main line, using a reversible line which opened in 1976. Kent trains from London, having passed through the station, curve round under the main line to Hither Green en route to Ladywell.

Platforms 5 and 6 are served by Docklands Light Railway trains to Bank Station and Stratford station

Lewisham tube station was an uncompleted station planned to be built on the Jubilee Line on the London Underground. Premilarly construction work was begun before the plan was delayed by lack of funds. Eventually the route that the station was due to be on was changed, leading the station to be cancelled.^{[citation needed]}

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

• 6tph to London Charing Cross (none of these services stop at St Johns or New Cross)
• 4tph to London Cannon Street (2tph don't stop at St Johns)
• 2tph to London Victoria (this service doesn't stop at Clapham High Street, Wandsworth Road or Battersea Park)
• 2tph to Orpington, with 1tph continuing on to Sevenoaks
• 4tph to Dartford via Bexleyheath
• 2tph to Gravesend via Sidcup
• 2tph to Hayes
• 2tph to Plumstead via Woolwich Arsenal (this service doens't stop at Woolwich Dockyard)

Lewisham is also the southern terminus of the DLR, the previous station being Elverson Road. Lewisham is on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 2 and Zone 3 and is a major transport hub, with many buses either passing through or terminating here.

v t e Railways around Lewisham and Hither Green
Legend
South Eastern Main Line to Charing Cross South Eastern Main Line to Cannon Street via New Cross non-stop via London Bridge   Nunhead to Lewisham link to London Victoria St Johns Greenwich Park branch line to Greenwich Park Bakerloo line (proposed) to Elephant & Castle Docklands Light Railway to Bank–Monument or Stratford via New Cross Gate   Elverson Road Lewisham Bakerloo line (proposed) provision for extension to Hayes Blackheath North Kent Line to Gravesend Ladywell Bexleyheath line to Dartford via Bexleyheath Hayes line to Hayes via Catford Bridge Hither Green Hither Green TMD Lee Dartford Loop Line to Dartford via Sidcup South Eastern Main Line to Kent non-stop via Orpington South Eastern Main Line to Orpington (stopping services)

Southeastern rail services operate from Lewisham station to:

• St Johns, New Cross, London Bridge, Waterloo East, Charing Cross and Cannon Street (Some trains go fast to London Bridge).
• Nunhead, Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill and Victoria
• Blackheath, Charlton, Woolwich Dockyard, Woolwich Arsenal, Plumstead, Abbey Wood, Belvedere, Erith, Slade Green, Dartford, Stone Crossing, Greenhithe (for Bluewater), Swanscombe, Northfleet, Gravesend, Higham, Strood, Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham.
• Blackheath, Kidbrooke, Eltham, Falconwood, Welling, Bexleyehath and Barnehurst
• Hither Green, Lee, Mottingham, New Eltham, Sidcup, Albany Park, Bexley, Crayford
• Hither Green, Grove Park, Elmstead Woods, Chislehurst, Petts Wood, Orpington, Chelsfield, Knockholt, Dunton Green and Sevenoaks (Most trains don't call at Lewisham)
• Ladywell, Catford Bridge, Lower Sydenham, New Beckenham, Clock House, Elmers End, Eden Park, West Wickham and Hayes (Kent), (with some trains not calling at Lewisham).

Docklands Light Railway rail services operate from Lewisham station to:

• Elverson Road, Greewnich, Cutty Sark, Island Gardens, Mudchute, Crossharbour, South Quay, Heron Quays, Canary Wharf; continuing from Canary Wharf to:
  • West India Quay, Poplar, Devons Road, Bow Church, Pudding Mill Lane and Stratford; or
  • Westferry, Limehouse, Shadwell, Tower Gateway and Bank

In its draft Kent Route Utilisation Strategy^[4], Network Rail mentions the possibility of extending the Bakerloo line from Elephant & Castle station to Lewisham station, and then taking over the Hayes branch line.

Network Rail state that this would free up six paths per hour into central London and so increasing capacity on the Tonbridge main line, which would also relieve the junctions around Lewisham station. However, they state that this would not be undertaken until after 2015.

The second episode of the 1979 LWT comedy series End of Part One includes the main characters watching a film called "The Life of Christopher Columbus". In the film, Columbus goes to a tube station and asks for a train to America, but is told he can only go as far as Catford. Part of a modified tube map is shown which shows the fictitious tube stations Lewisham, Ladywell, Edge of the World and Catford on the East London Section of the Metropolitan Line south from New Cross tube station. There is an actual part of the mainline Mid-Kent Railway that interchanges with New Cross tube station, and the stations are, southwards in order: St. John's, Lewisham, Ladywell and Catford Bridge (Catford on a different line interchanges with the latter).

• Docklands Light Railway website - Lewisham station page

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lewisham station (London).

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  DLR station island platform looking south towards "buffers"
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  DLR station island platform looking north
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  DLR station signage