London Bridge is a railway terminus in Southwark, South East London. It is the fourth busiest station on the network with sixty one million passengers using the station in 2018-19.
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Southern 171 202 arrives with a service from Uckfield
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| Information |
| Type: |
National Rail
(Thameslink, Southern & South Eastern Services) |
| Station code: |
LBG |
| Opened: |
1836 |
| Platforms: |
15 |
The station was opened in 1836 by the London & Croydon Railway, it is the oldest London terminus still in use (and third oldest overall). The original station was much smaller than the huge site the station occupies now with just four lines and no roof (a canvas roof was added in 1840). By now under the control of the South Eastern Railway, the station was rebuilt in the late 1840s. Another rebuild came in 1864. Others have followed over the decades.
The Southern Railway electrified (third rail) the suburban lines out of London Bridge in the late 1920s (though the line to London Victoria and later Crystal Palace was electrified (overhead) in 1909). The station became highly busy due to commuter traffic to and from the South East. The station was rebuilt by British Rail in the early 1970s to cope with the huge passenger volumes. A further redevelopment has taken place in the 2000s and reopened in 2018.
Although London Bridge is a terminus it also has a large number of through services too, in fact nine of the fifteen platforms serve through lines with services West to
London Blackfriars,
London Cannon Street and
Waterloo East. It is served by Southern, South Eastern and Thameslink. Below the station is the also large and busy
London Bridge tube station.
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Southern 455 834 and 377 158 at the buffers
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Inside the redeveloped concourse
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Southern 171 202 and friend prepare to depart
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Southern 455 802 stands on one of the terminus platforms
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Southern 377 435 and friend at London Bridge
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