Bexleyheath Line

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Bexleyheath Line
Overview
Type Heavy rail
System National Rail
Status Operating
Locale Greater London
Termini Blackheath
Dartford
Operation
Owner Network Rail
Operator(s) Southeastern
Rolling stock British Rail Class 376
British Rail Class 465
British Rail Class 466
Technical
No. of tracks 2
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) Standard gauge
Electrification 750 DC third rail
Route map
Continuation backward
Unknown BSicon "ACC"
Blackheath
Junction to left Continuation to left
North Kent Line
Enter and exit tunnel
Kidbrooke Tunnel
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Kidbrooke
Unknown BSicon "eHST"
Eltham Well Hall
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A2
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Eltham
Unknown BSicon "eHST"
Eltham Park
Stop on track
Falconwood
Unknown BSicon "ACC"
Welling
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Bexleyheath
Stop on track
Barnehurst
Straight track Continuation backward
North Kent Line
Straight track Stop on track
Slade Green
Unknown BSicon "ABZld" Track turning right
Continuation to right Unknown BSicon "ABZrd"
Dartford Loop Line
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Dartford
Track turning from left Unknown BSicon "ABZdf" Track turning from right
Non-passenger end station Straight track Non-passenger end station
Dartford Carriage Sidings
Continuation forward
North Kent Line

The Bexleyheath Line runs for 8 miles (13 km) from Blackheath to Dartford in Kent operating between the North Kent Line just to the east of Blackheath station and to the same line south of Slade Green in Dartford.

Contents

[edit] History

The Bexley Heath Railway led by railway engineer Alfred Bean (owner of Danson House) secured the necessary Act of Parliament to build the line in 1883 but was not until 1 May 1895 that the Bexleyheath Line was finally opened. The company soon went into bankruptcy South Eastern Railway who had refused to build a line to serve the area between the two lines was then forced to take it over.

The line was electrified with the other South Eastern and Chatham Railway local routes to Dartford on 6 June 1926 by Southern Railway.

In 1985 the new Eltham railway station replaced two nearby stations; Well Hall station/Eltham Well Hall station) and Shooters Hill & Eltham Park station/Eltham Park station. The change coincided with the opening of the Rochester Relief Road which forms part of the A2 road.[1]

[edit] Service patterns

Off-peak & Saturday:

From 11 December it is planned that the Barnehurst will continue to Slade Green and return to London Cannon Street.[2]

Evenings & Sunday:

[edit] Events

The Eltham Well Hall rail crash took place close to at Eltham Well Hall station in 1972 and resulted in 5 deaths and 126 injuries.[3]

[edit] References

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