Rotherhithe railway station

Rotherhithe [ rɒðəhaɪð ] is an underground station on the East London Line of London Overground (up to 2007 London Underground) in the London Borough of Southwark. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2 at Brunel Road, few meters from the south bank of the Thames. In 2011, he was used by 0.688 million passengers.

The station is located at the southern end of the 1825-1843 Marc Isambard Brunel built by Thames Tunnel, which was a pedestrian tunnel originally and was later converted for railway traffic. Part of the original brick structure is still conserved, there is a plaque commemorating Brunel attached. Access to the platforms is done by escalators and stairs ( no elevators ).

History

After the opening of the station on December 7, 1869 initially led the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, a connection between its network and the East London Line had at New Cross Gate, the passenger transport. On December 1, 1884 took the Metropolitan Railway (MR, now the Metropolitan Line) and the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, now the District Line ) underground operation on.

The MDR ceased its activities on 31 July 1905, the MR so that the route temporarily served only to freight on 2 December 1906. As of March 31, 1913 sailed features of MR again the now electrified line. Since the closure of the connecting curve St Mary 's Curve at White Chapel on 5 October 1941, the East London Line was operationally independent. Between 25 March 1995 and 25 March 1998, the entire route was closed due to renovation and modernization works to all traffic.

On 22 December 2007, the East London Line was closed again in order to modernize them and extend at both ends. There were considerations that stations Rotherhithe and Wapping to abandon them entirely, because it was assumed that the platforms were too short to accommodate the new longer trains from London Overground. On August 16, 2004 Mayor Ken Livingstone was known, however, that both stations would remain. Since 27 April 2010, the route is two and a half years of construction, open again and a part of London Overground.