New Eltham
New Eltham Location of New Eltham in Greater London
Location	New Eltham
Local authority	Royal Borough of Greenwich
Managed by	Southeastern
Station code	NEH
DfT category	C2
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2018–19	2.534 million[1]
2019–20	2.494 million[1]
2020–21	0.590 million[1]
2021–22	1.370 million[1]
2022–23	1.722 million[1]
Key dates
1 April 1878	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°26′15″N 0°04′20″E / 51.4375°N 0.0722°E / 51.4375; 0.0722
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New Eltham railway station is in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in south-east London. It is 10 miles 32 chains (16.7 km) down the line from London Charing Cross.

It is operated by Southeastern and is in Travelcard Zone 4. 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 station was opened as Pope Street Station in April 1878, twelve years after the opening of the Dartford Loop Line. 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.^{[2][3][page needed]}

Location

The station is located in New Eltham in a shallow cutting near the crossroads of Footscray Road and Avery Hill Road.

Connections

London Buses route 160, 162, 233, 314, 321 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 Southeastern using Class 376, 465, 466 and 707 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[4]

• 4 tph to London Charing Cross (2 of these run non-stop from Hither Green to London Bridge and 2 call at Lewisham)
• 4 tph to Dartford of which 2 continue to Gravesend

During the peak hours, the station is served by an additional half-hourly circular service to and from London Cannon Street via Lewisham in the clockwise direction and Woolwich Arsenal and Greenwich in the anticlockwise direction.

The station is served by a single early morning service to London Blackfriars.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Mottingham		Southeastern Dartford Loop Line		Sidcup