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in south-east

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. It is down the line from . It is operated by Southeastern and is in

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. It has two platforms: Platform 1 the "up" platform for services to London and Platform 2 the "down" platform, for services towards Kent.

History

New Eltham New Eltham is a suburban area of South East Greater London, London, England, primarily in the Royal Borough of Greenwich with some parts in the London Borough of Bexley. It is located south east of Eltham and north west of Sidcup. History New E ...

station was opened as Pope Street Station in April 1878, twelve years after the opening of the

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. The station was renamed New Eltham in 1886 although Pope Street was retained as a suffix until 1927. It had a goods yard on the up side which closed in 1963 and eventually became a car park, and a signal box just beyond the western end of the down platform. In 1955 the platforms were extended to take ten carriage trains. In the same year the signal box was taken out of use and demolished. The up side booking office was rebuilt in 1988.

Location

The station is located in

in a shallow cutting near the crossroads of Footscray Road and Avery Hill Road.

Connections

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route

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, 162,

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, 321 and B13 serve the station.

Facilities

The station has been added to the

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"Access for All" scheme. The footbridge linking the two platforms was removed in the summer of 2013 and replaced with a new accessible footbridge with lifts which became operational in December 2014. Both platforms are accessible without using steps.

Services

All services at New Eltham are operated by Southeastern using , , and

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 4 tph to

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(2 of these run direct and 2 run via ) * 4 tph to of which 2 continue to Additional services, including trains to and from London Cannon Street via either Lewisham, or via and , and to

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call at the station during the peak hours.

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{{TSGN and SE Stations, FCC None=y, SN None=y, Sidcup=y Railway stations in the Royal Borough of Greenwich Former South Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1878 Railway stations served by Southeastern