
New Cross Station
New Cross Station
Address: Amersham Vale, New Cross, London SE14 6LD
Opened: October 1850
Station Code: NWX
Fare Zone: 2
London Overground Line(s) Served:
East London Line
Service Pattern(s):
4 trains per hour to Dalston Junction
Interchange(s)
Southern
OSI
New Cross Gate – 700 metres
Station History
New Cross & Naval School station was opened by the South Eastern Railway in October 1850 to replace their original station located at North Kent Junction which opened on 30th July 1849. The station was renamed New Cross in 1854.
Although the East London Railway arrived in the area, serving the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway’s New Cross Station on 7th December 1869, it was not until 1st April 1880 that services running from Liverpool Street to Addiscombe provided by the company began to run through the SER station.
The East London Railway services were truncated to terminate here on 30th June 1911 before on 31st March 1913, the Metropolitan Railway (which had taken over the ELR) electrified the line and commenced services from here to Kensington Addison Road (Now Kensington Olympia).
With the passing of The Railways Act 1921, SER was amalgamated with the London, Brighton and South Coast, and other railways to form the Southern Railway on 1st January 1923. The new entity recognised the confusion between the two stations they owned in the area and renamed the former LB&SCR Station to New Cross Gate.
With the formation of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933, the East London Railway services now operated by the Metropolitan Railway were taken over and became part of London Underground’s Metropolitan Line.
The Transport Act 1947 saw railways in Britain become nationalised, with the Southern Railway becoming British Railways Southern Region on 1st January 1948.
In the early 1970s, the original station buildings on New Cross Road were closed and demolished, with a replacement wooden structure being constructed and opened on Amersham Vale in 1975. Also at this time, both the up and down fast platforms were demolished and a new track layout was introduced.
1982 saw the Southern Region of British Railways sectorised, becoming the London & South Eastern sector, and later renamed to Network Southeast on 10 June 1986. The wooden station buildings were demolished and replaced by the current structure in 1985.
Privatisation of the Railways following the Railways Act 1993 saw the station and its lines franchised to Connex, who operated them under their South Central subsidiary. A further management change occurred on 26th August 2001, when the new franchisee of the line Govia bought out the remaining two years of the Connex agreement to assume services early.
East London Line services on the London Underground ceased on the 22nd December 2007 to allow the line to be converted for use by London Overground. These works to both the line and stations was completed in early 2010 with a preview service between here and Dalston Junction commencing on the 27th April.
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