Orpington railway station
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox London station Orpington railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line, serving the town of Orpington in the London Borough of Bromley, south-east London. It is Template:Convert down the line from London Charing Cross and is situated between Template:Rws and Template:Rws stations. It is in London fare zone 6.
History
Template:More citations needed section The station was opened on 2 March 1868 by the South Eastern Railway (SER),<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> when the SER opened its cut-off line between Chislehurst and Sevenoaks. Previously, trains between London and Tunbridge Wells had taken a circuitous route via Redhill. The line was widened and the station rebuilt in 1904, expanding to six platforms. Third rail electrification reached Orpington in 1925, and extended to Sevenoaks in 1935.<ref>Southern Electric by G.T.Moody page 56</ref>
About this time the Southern Heights Light Railway was proposed, which would have diverged from the main line south of Orpington and finished at Template:Rws.<ref name="Times110129">Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref> Crofton Roman Villa was partly destroyed by a railway cutting in the late 1800s but was rediscovered in 1926 when work was carried out to the area to the west of the station entrance as an entrance to a new council building.
Platforms 7 and 8 were built in the early 1990s on the site of former carriage sidings. In 2008, the station became fully accessible following the opening of a new footbridge providing lift access to all platforms. As of 2013, the former steam locomotive shed (closed for steam in 1926; in use as sidings until 1960) is still standing, converted to offices (sited adjacent to platform 8). In 2014 the car park was rebuilt with 2 storeys to increase capacity.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Layout
The station has eight platforms. Platform 1 is a bay platform which is only used for extra capacity during rush hour and other periods of high traffic.
Platforms 2-5 are through platforms. Platform 2 is used for fast services to Charing Cross or Cannon Street. Platforms 3 and 4 are an island, 3 used by trains towards Ashford International or Tunbridge Wells and 4 by stopping services from Sevenoaks to Charing Cross or Cannon Street. Platform 5 hosts the Sevenoaks slows.
Bay platforms 6-8 are bay platforms for stopping services towards Charing Cross, London Victoria, Cannon Street and Luton/Bedford. At the country end, the four tracks become two. At the London end there is a four-road sidings, where trains are stabled and cleaned.
There are two entrances, both containing ticket offices and ticket barriers. The main entrance is on the platform 1/2 side (Crofton Road), while the other entrance is on the platform 5-8 side (Station Approach and the bus interchange). Access to platforms 3 and 4 is available via an underground subway (inaccessible for wheelchair users) or via a bridge opened in 2008 which incorporates lift access to all platforms.
Parking
The multi-story car park with a capacity of 142 cars was inaugurated in 2014. Southeastern rail company funded the expansion with a cost of £1.9 million. Jo Johnson, who was serving as the MP for Orpington, as well as David Statham, Southeastern's Managing Director at the time, were hosting the event.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Services
Services at Orpington are operated by Southeastern and Thameslink using Template:Brc, Template:Brc, Template:Brc, Template:Brc, Template:Brc and Template:Brc EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:<ref>Template:NRtimes</ref>
- 4 tph to Template:Stn via Template:Stnlnk
- 4 tph to London Charing Cross (2 of these run non-stop to Template:Stn and 2 are stopping services via Template:Stn)
- 2 tph to London Cannon Street
- 2 tph to Template:Stnlnk (all stations)
- 2 tph to Template:Stnlnk via Template:Stnlnk (1 semi-fast, 1 stopping)
Additional services, including a number of Thameslink services between to and from Template:Stn and Template:Stnlnk via Template:Stnlnk call at the station during the peak hours.
On Sundays, the services to and from London Cannon Street do not run.
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Connections
London Buses routes 51, 61, 208, 353, 358, B14, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, school routes 654, 684, night route N199, and Go-Coach route 3 serve the station.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
- Murder of Deborah Linsley – unsolved 1988 murder of a woman who boarded an Orpington-London Victoria train at Petts Wood. A man had been seen staring at women boarding the train at Orpington<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
References
External links
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