Abbey Wood
Location
Place	Abbey Wood
Local authority	London Borough of Greenwich
Operations
Managed by	Southeastern
Platforms in use	2
National Rail
Station code	ABW
Annual entry/exit	2.201 million *
Transport for London
Zone	4
History
Key dates	Opened 1849
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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. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Abbey Wood is an area on the eastern edge of the London Borough of Greenwich, between Plumstead to the west and Erith to the east, Abbey Wood takes its name from the nearby Lesnes Abbey and Bostall Woods. ... The London Borough of Greenwich is a London borough in southeast London, England. ... Southeastern is a train operating company that began operations in south-east England on 1 April 2006, replacing the former publicly-owned operator South Eastern Trains. ... Travelcard Zone 4 is the fourth outward zone of Transport for Londons zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for the transport system throughout the City of London and Greater London in England. ... The southbound platform at Angel. ... This is a list of mainline railway stations in London, excluding London Underground and Docklands Light Railway. ... Image File history File links Portal. ... Filton Abbey Wood railway station, (near Bristol, England) was opened on the 11 March 1996, replacing the original Filton station which stands to the north of the current site. ... Abbey Wood is an area on the eastern edge of the London Borough of Greenwich, between Plumstead to the west and Erith to the east, Abbey Wood takes its name from the nearby Lesnes Abbey and Bostall Woods. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Southeastern is a train operating company that began operations in south-east England on 1 April 2006, replacing the former publicly-owned operator South Eastern Trains. ... Plumstead railway station is a railway station in Plumstead, in South East London, between Woolwich Arsenal and Abbey Wood. ... Belvedere railway station is a railway station in South East London, between Abbey Wood and Erith. ... The North Kent Line is a railway line which connects central and south east London with Dartford and Medway. ... For the similar scheme in Glasgow, see Glasgow Crossrail Crossrail is a project to build a new east-west railway connection under central London, with one connection to the west and two to the east. ... The Thames Gateway Transit is the collective name of two planned segregated bus schemes in the east London section of the Thames Gateway redevelopment zone in England. ...

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). 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. Thamesmead is a new town, more realistically a new suburb, in London built on the southern bank of the River Thames, 9. ... // The First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ... Red House may mean: Red House, New York, a town in Cattaraugus County, New York. ... Bexleyheath, formerly known as Bexley New Town, part of the London Borough of Bexley, consists of a suburban development located 12 miles (19. ...

Services

Abbey Wood station is served by a healthy number of trains. Destinations include London Charing Cross, Cannon Street, London Bridge, Dartford, Gravesend, and Gillingham The back of Charing Cross railway station showing the additions designed by Terry Farrell. ... Cannon Street is a road in the south of the City of London. ... For other uses, see London Bridge (disambiguation). ... Dartford is the principal town in the borough of Dartford. ... Gravesend can refer to: Gravesend, Kent, England Gravesend, New York, USA This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Gillingham is a town in Kent, England, forming part of the Medway conurbation; it is a constituent of Medway unitary authority. ...

External links

• Train times
• Station information
• Map and aerial photo of Abbey Wood railway station from Multimap.com
• Other map and aerial photo sources
• grid reference TQ472790

• Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 51.4915° 0.1229°
  • Satellite image from WikiMapia or Google Map
  • Street map from Multimap or GlobalGuide
  • Aerial image from TerraServer

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