Spa Road railway station

Spa Road station was the original terminus of London's first railway, the London and Greenwich Railway. It opened on 8 February 1836, with the other end of the line at Deptford. The extension to London Bridge opened on 14 December 1836. The extension from Deptford to Greenwich opened on 12 April 1840. The station closed for upgrading from 1838 to 1842.In 1872 it was resited some 200 yards to the south-east and in October 1877 it was renamed Spa Road & Bermondsey.

It closed finally on March 15 1915, by when the railway it served was the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.

Parts of the station, which is obviously closed to the public, still exist. Old platforms can be seen from trains between Deptford or New Cross and London Bridge and there is track-access via the normally locked ground level ticket office (which still has its old tiled floor). On January 8 1999, after the Spa Road train crash, some passengers were evacuated through the old station.

External link

* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/s/spa_road_and_bermondsey/index.shtml Subterranea Britannica on Spa Road & Bermondsey station]

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