Old Kent Road railway station

Old Kent Road was a railway station on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway line in south London. It took its name from the Old Kent Road on which it was located.

A 1915 map showing the location of the station near the bottom of the map
A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines around the approaches to London Bridge station

History

The station opened on 13 August 1866.[1][2]

It was located on a viaduct to the south of Old Kent Road in the Peckham division of the parish of Camberwell. The boundary with the hamlet of Hatcham in the parish of St Paul Deptford was located just to the east of the station. The railway crossed the road on a bridge. To the north of Old Kent Road was a series of junctions connecting to Rotherhithe station on South London Line and Deptford Road station on the East London Railway. To the south the next station was Queen's Road.

The station was renamed in 1870 to Old Kent Road and Hatcham. The passenger train service to East London was withdrawn on 1 June 1911 and the track was removed in 1912.[3] The station closed temporarily on 1 January 1917 during the First World War as an economy measure, but was never reopened after the end of the war.

Future

The reopening of the spur from Old Kent Road Junction to the East London Line in December 2012 allowed through services, as part of London Overground, a century after they were withdrawn. A new station named New Bermondsey is proposed to be situated about 700 metres north of the site of the former Old Kent Road station.[4][5] A possible Bakerloo line extension has also been proposed to stop at either Old Kent Road or Peckham Rye.[6][7]

References
  1. Chronology of London Railways by H.V.Borley
  2. London's Disused Stations by J.E.Connor
  3. Londons Disused Stations Volume 6 by J.E.Connor
  4. Google Image Result for http://www.arup.com/_assets/_img/image5974.jpg
  5. "Next steps Transport for London". Archived from the original on 22 January 2008.
  6. Bakerloo Line extension TFL website
  7. "Bakerloo line extension: Background to consultation" (PDF). Transport for London. September 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Queen's Road Peckham   London, Brighton
& South Coast Railway		   South Bermondsey

51.4782°N 0.0545°W / 51.4782; -0.0545

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