Beckenham Junction station

National Rail services at Beckenham Junction are operated by Southeastern and Southern using Class 377, 465 and 466 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[7]

• 2 tph to London Victoria via Herne Hill
• 2 tph to London Bridge via Crystal Palace
• 2 tph to Orpington via Bromley South

During the peak hours, the station is served by an additional half-hourly service between London Victoria and Orpington, increasing the Southeastern service to 4 tph in each direction. The station is also served by a six peak hour Southeastern services per day to and five per day from London Blackfriars.

During the evenings (after approximately 20:00), the Southern service to London Bridge is reduced to hourly. This service does not operate on Sundays.

Tram services at Beckenham Junction are operated by Tramlink. The tram stop is served by trams every 10 minutes to Wimbledon via Croydon. This is reduced to a tram every 15 minutes on Saturday evenings and Sundays.[8][9]

Services are operated using Bombardier CR4000 and Stadler Variobahn Trams.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Kent House		Southeastern Bromley South Line		Shortlands
New Beckenham		Southeastern Hayes Line Limited Service		Terminus
Birkbeck		Southern Crystal Palace Line Monday-Saturday only
Preceding station	Tramlink			Following station
Beckenham Road towards Wimbledon		Tramlink Wimbledon to Beckenham Junction		Terminus

Beckenham Junction Station in 1961

The station was opened by the Mid-Kent Railway (MKR) on 1 January 1857[10] as the terminus of the line from Lewisham; it became a junction on 3 May 1858[11] when the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway Farnborough Extension line from Crystal Palace to Shortlands was opened. On 1 July 1863 the London Chatham & Dover Railway Metropolitan Extension from Beckenham to Victoria/Blackfriars completed the lines serving the station. In 1863 the MKR was taken over by the South Eastern Railway (SER) and thereafter the station was operated jointly by the LCDR and SER. Despite a partial rebuilding in 1890 the original MKR building is still in use as the main station offices and booking hall.[12]

From December 2007, a significant upgrade to train services at Beckenham Junction took place, with an increase in frequency of the London Victoria to Orpington services (off peak) to every 15 mins. Until Section 2 of High Speed 1 opened in 2007 Eurostar services passed the station, but did not stop. In December 2010 Southern increased the number of evening services on Monday-Saturdays so that trains would run to London Bridge Station later into the evening.

Tram 2549 at the Beckenham Junction terminus of Tramlink.

The two platform Tramlink stop opened in 2000, with the rest of the route to the Croydon loop. The stop is outside the station, across the car park, beside the A2015 road, which avoids Beckenham town centre.[13]

• On 22 January 1990, 4EPB electric multiple unit 5408 collided with the buffer stop on arrival from London Bridge and was derailed.[14]