Abbey Wood Railway Station

Abbey Wood railway station serves the suburb of Abbey Wood in South East London. It is served by Southeastern, and is between Plumstead and Belvedere stations on the North Kent Line. Crossrail line 1's south eastern branch is expected to terminate here, as is the Greenwich Waterfront Transit a putative segregated busway. Local interests are campaigning for both these schemes to extend further eastwards, to Ebbsfleet/Gravesend and Erith respectively.

The station's name boards identify it as Abbey Wood for Thamesmead, as it is the closest railway station to Thamesmead (buses run from the station to Thamesmead proper).

History

During the 1860s William Morris famously used a decorated wagon to commute between this station and his new home at Red House, Bexleyheath, occasionally with his eccentric and artistic house guests.

The station has been rebuilt twice over the past 50 years to cater for the changing nature of the area.

Services

Currently (Autumn 2007) the weekday daytime service pattern consists of 6 trains an hour in each direction along the North Kent Line: three routes each operating at a 30 minute frequency:

• Charing Cross to Gillingham (fast)
• Cannon Street to Dartford via Greenwich (stopping)
• Cannon Street to Slade Green via Greenwich (and then returning to Cannon Street via Sidcup) (stopping)

The two stopping services are timed to give a 15 minute frequency on the North Kent Line stopping everywhere between Cannon Street and Slade Green.

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