Denmark Hill railway station is in the area of

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in south

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, on the

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and Catford Loop lines. It is down the line from . It is managed by

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History

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The station was built between 1864 and 1866. Its design by Charles Henry Driver is in the

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, with an extremely decorative frontage and French pavilion roofs. In 1920 the waiting room was used by ''The Mystical Church of the Comforter'', founded by Elizabeth Mary Eagle Skinner, who was known as "The Messenger". The waiting room was transformed by an altar, painted white and surrounded by the seven colours of the rainbow. The ''

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'' for 17 June 1926 reported that babies were baptised, funeral services were read and even a marriage was solemnised. The porters and clerks of the railway company often worked to the accompaniment of hymns sung by the congregation. The church is believed to have ceased to function after the death of Skinner in November 1929. By the late 1970s the building had been neglected. In March 1980, arsonists broke into the booking hall and the resulting fire destroyed the roof. Initial work by British Rail engineers to make the building safe by demolishing parts of the remaining building triggered a protest campaign by the Camberwell Society. Following a joint initiative between them, the Southwark Environment Trust and the British Rail Director of the Environment,

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, the building was restored in 1985. The project included the addition of a

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, initially called the Phoenix and Firkin to commemorate the fire, then called O'Neills and now the Phoenix. The building was given a Civic Trust award in 2009. In the period 2011–2013 the station underwent a redesign with the construction of a new ticket office with access from Champion Park, new walkways and lifts to the platforms. In September 2021, a second entrance opened on the north-eastern side of the station.

Design

The platforms are below road level, with the short Grove Tunnel at one end and Denmark Hill road bridge at the other.

Services

Services at Denmark Hill are operated by

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and

. Services are operated using , , , , , and

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. Southern
Network map (central)
The station is in

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. It is on Champion Park in the south of

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. It is near to King's College and Maudsley hospitals and to the Denmark Hill campus of

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, whose buildings are intermingled around and between the two hospitals. The typical Peak/ Off Peak service in trains per hour is: * 4 / 3 tph to * 5 / 2tph to

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Then Peak: 2 tph 2 tph 1 tph terminates; Off Peak: 2tph terminate * 4 / 4tph to * 2 / 2tph to via * 2 / 1tph to (Fast via ) * 1 / 0tph to (Fast via ) * 4 / 2tph to stopping via then 2 tph and 2 tph * 4 / 4tph to via Currently Suspended Off Peak Services: * 2 tph to

and on to * 2 tph to stopping via to Gillingham Trains sometimes extend to at weekends Dalston Junction Trains Coninute to on Sunday

Layout

The station is on two lines:
The South London line are the Southern pair of tracks (through Platforms 1 & 2) running to

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and
The

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are the Northern pair (through Platforms 3 & 4) running to

& beyond to the

core and Victoria . *Platform 1:

to Victoria and

to Clapham Junction *Platform 2: Southeastern to / Dover Priory and London Overground to / *Platform 3:

, , and *Platform 4: Thameslink to , and Southeastern to and

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Southeastern trains to Victoria can use both 1 & 3 and their return services to Dartford, Gillingham and Dover can use 2 & 4, above are the default.

Connections

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routes 40,

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and 484 serve the station.

References

External links

Planning documents for 2011/12 station improvements, Southwark Council
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