Wandsworth Road railway station
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox London station Wandsworth Road is a station on the Windrush line of the London Overground, located between the two south-west London areas of Battersea and Clapham. It is Template:Convert from Template:Stn.
History
Chatham lines
The station opened on 1 March 1863, on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) original double-track low-level route from Victoria via Stewarts Lane, which was opened between Victoria and Herne Hill, on 25 August 1862.<ref>The London, Chatham & Dover Railway, by Adrian Gray - p. 57</ref> The LCDR constructed a triple-track high-level route between Battersea Pier Junction and Brixton, part of which opened between Factory Junction, (100 metres north of Wandsworth Road station) and Brixton on 1 May 1866, together with three additional platforms at Wandsworth Road.<ref>The London, Chatham & Dover Railway, by Adrian Gray - p. 57</ref> Therefore, from May 1866 until April 1916, this station had five platforms. In 1879 the LCDR was running the following services that stopped at Wandsworth Road:<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Frequent trains between Moorgate and Victoria, calling at all stationsTemplate:Efn
- Half-hourly trains between Moorgate and Clapham Junction, calling at all stationsTemplate:Efn
- Through trains from Kentish Town to Victoria, calling at all stationsTemplate:Efn
The LCDR was operated as part of the joint South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) from 1899.
SECR withdrew it services on 3 April 1916 and the three 1866 platforms were closed.<ref>Chronology of London Railways by H.V.Borley</ref><ref>Southern Electric 4th Edition p. 6</ref>
The former South Eastern & Chatham platforms which closed in 1916 were demolished in the late 1920s.
Atlantic lines
On 1 May 1867, the London, Chatham and Dover Railway leased the original two tracks to the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) for use by its new South London line service, which ran between Victoria and London Bridge via Denmark Hill. After the SECR withdrew its service on 3 April 1916 only the original two 1863 platforms remained in operation and were served by the LBSCR. The South London line service was withdrawn for four months during the 1926 general strike with the station closed from 19 May 1926 to 20 September 1926.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
A footbridge was installed by Network SouthEast in November 1988 having previously been used at Mitcham.<ref>Wandsworth Road Template:Webarchive Kent Rail</ref>
The Template:Stnlnk and Template:Stnlnk service continued until 8 December 2012, ultimately with a train twice-hourly and operated by Southern. This was mostly replaced by the London Overground service between Clapham Junction and Dalston Junction.
Parliamentary trains
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Following the withdrawal of CrossCountry's services from Template:Stnlnk to Template:Stnlnk via Template:Stnlnk in December 2008 the Department for Transport required a weekly parliamentary train to run on lines no longer used by other services, hence Southern operated a morning weekday service from Kensington Olympia to Clapham High Street with a corresponding service in the afternoon. This was withdrawn in December 2012. Since then the service was instead been cut back to Wandsworth Road from Kensington Olympia, and then withdrawn completely in June 2013, following the ratification of the service withdrawal request by the Department for Transport and Office of Rail and Road.<ref>"Ealing Broadway, Kensington (Olympia) & Wandsworth Road: withdrawal of scheduled railway passenger services"London Travel Watch 21 May 2013; Retrieved 24 May 2016</ref>
Services
London Overground operate four services per hour in each direction on the Windrush line between Template:Stnlnk and Template:Stnlnk. There is also a limited early morning and late evening service from and to Template:Stnlnk.<ref>GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 178 (Network Rail)</ref>
Connections
London Buses routes 77, 87 and 452 and night route N87 serve the station.
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