East Croydon station

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East Croydon station is a rail transport hub in the London Borough of Croydon in Travelcard Zone 5 It is the largest station in London outside Travelcard Zone 1 and is located in the property of Network Rail will, however, managed by Southern. In addition to Southern trains also served the Thameslink station until 2009 also held cross-country and Southeastern trains. The Gatwick Express runs through without stopping.

4.1 Southern
4.2 First Capital Connect

5.1 bus
5.2 Tramlink

History

London and Brighton Railway

1841, the station was opened under the name of the London and Croydon Railway Brighton, as she opened the section of London Bridge Haywards Heath today's Brighton Main Line. When the South Eastern Railway (SER ) 1842 BML began to use to Redhill, she also participated in the operation of the station. Means the contract agreed the two paths the same fares on the route community.

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

1846 merged the L & BR with the London and Croydon Railway for London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, which renamed the station in Croydon East, as the L & CR also a railway station Croydon possessed the (now West Croydon ) renamed then in West Croydon. 1860-1862 built the LB & SCR, the access routes to London Victoria. For this, they built directly next to the station East Croydon, which thus received its present name, East Croydon, two new platforms. These were marked with the name New Croydon and were an independent station itself, with its own ticket offices. At his perverted exclusively LB & SCR trains, which allowed the company to circumvent the contract with the SER and introducing more favorable prices for the trip to Victoria. However, there were problems of space for terminating trains, the locomotives did not have enough space to get to the other Zugsende so that the LB & SCR means of parliamentary approval in 1863 its suburban trains around 1.6 km extended to the new, still existing South Croydon train station, where there is enough turning area was available. Opened in 1868, the LB & SCR after four years of construction and planning, a 800 meter- long branch line into the city center of Croydon, as the East Croydon station was too far away. However, the line enjoyed only low popularity, so it was closed in 1871. Although it was reopened in 1886, but only four years later, in 1890, to be finally shut down under pressure from the city council. The site of the former terminus, Croydon Central called, was built over with today's Town Hall Croydon.

Tramlink

In May 2000, the then current still called Croydon Tramlink first tram line was opened in London since the cessation in 1952. You tangent to East Croydon train station with all three lines and also allows a connection to West Croydon train station, which is not given with the railroad.

Conversions

The rapidly increasing volume of traffic, even on the Brighton Main Line, the original station was unable to cope. Furthermore, a railway line from East Croydon to Oxted and further built into two branch routes to East Grinstead and Uckfield, which, though only after the South Croydon railway station branches off from the BML, the trains but also to East Croydon Station passed. Also the transport network in south London was been greatly expanded, so created a new line from South Croydon to Coulsdon, where they in the Quarry Line, the BML bypass route to the train station Redhill einmündete. By 1898 and the stations East Croydon and New Croydon were built at a single station with the three still existing agent platforms, but they had still two different names. From East Croydon East Croydon Main and was from New Croydon East Croydon was local. Definitely one station they were in 1924 with the merger of the present East Croydon station.

In 1990, the ninety -year-old station building was demolished and replaced by a planned by the Architecture Association Alan Brookes Associates new building, the steel - glass construction to a new also, platforms spanning steel and glass construction, followed. Hold for four steel poles, similar to a suspension bridge, the glass hall on the platforms.

Future

In September 2010 it was announced that 6 million pounds of the station will be extended by a further input and over a new bridge leading into the compound Croydoner center.

Track system

All six tracks on the three central platforms are still used for the railroad, in 2000 came three more tracks for the tram link to it, which are located outside the main entrance.

Track 1: fast trains north to London Victoria
Track 2: Thameslink fast trains north to Bedford and express trains south to Brighton and Eastbourne as well as other stations on the south coast
Track 3: fast trains south to Brighton and Eastbourne as well as other stations on the south coast
Track 4: express and regional trains to London Bridge, and occasionally also to Victoria
Track 5: Ending trains, mostly from Milton Keynes
Track 6: Regional trains to Caterham and Tattenham Corner and Broad Oxted Line to Oxted, East Grinstead and Uckfield

Rail traffic

Southern

Southern operates as a main user and administrator of the station during off-peak times, up to 23 trains per hour in both directions.

9 per hour to Victoria, only stopping at Clapham Junction
2 per hour to Victoria, regional trains stop at all stations
7 per hour to London Bridge, one of them without intermediate stops, four only with intermediate stop in Norwood Junction and 2 with stops at all stations via Sydenham
1 per hour to Milton Keynes, leads to Clapham Junction on the West London Line and then on the West Coast Main Line

3 times per hour to Brighton, twice without intermediate stops and stopping at all stations
4 times per hour to Caterham
4 times per hour to Tattenham Corner
2 times per hour to East Grinstead
Once per hour to Uckfield
Once per hour after Bognor Regis and Portsmouth Harbour, outflanking in Horsham
Once per hour after Bognor Regis and Southampton Central, outflanking in Horsham
Once per hour to Portsmouth Harbour
Once per hour to Southampton Central
Once per hour to Littlehampton and Eastbourne, outflanking in Haywards Heath
Once per hour to Littlehampton and Hastings with hairpin in Eastbourne, outflanking in Haywards Heath
Once per hour to Eastbourne
Once per hour to Hastings with hairpin in Eastbourne
Once per hour to Horsham
Once per hour after Tonbridge
Once per hour to Reigate

First Capital Connect

The First Capital Connect via East Croydon fourth hour of the relation Bedford - Brighton, however, have a different holding frequency

Bedford - London St Pancras - East Croydon - Brighton.

City traffic

Bus

The train station is a major bus node with connections to central London on the one hand, but also to Bromley, Lewisham and South London. A total of eleven bus lines serve the station, another seven are within a seven minute walk in Croydoner center. Also happens longest bus route in London, the X26, on their way from Heathrow Airport to West Croydon to East Croydon Station.

Tramlink

The Tramlink, which has its stop in front of the main entrance, serves the station with all three lines:

Line 1: West Croydon - East Croydon - Elmers End
Line 2: West Croydon - East Croydon - Beckenham Junction
Line 3: Wimbledon - Mitcham Junction - West Croydon - East Croydon - New Addington