Falconwood railway station

Falconwood

Falconwood Location of Falconwood in Greater London
Location	Falconwood
Local authority	London Borough of Bexley
Managed by	Southeastern
Station code	FCN
DfT category	D
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2004–05	0.738 million^[1]
2005–06	0.759 million^[1]
2006–07	0.964 million^[1]
2007–08	0.991 million^[1]
2008–09	0.955 million^[1]
2009–10	0.930 million^[1]
2010–11	0.982 million^[1]
2011–12	1.022 million^[1]
2012–13	1.056 million^[1]
2013–14	1.123 million^[1]
Key dates
1 January 1936	Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
London Transport portal UK Railways portalCoordinates: 51°27′33″N 0°04′48″E / 51.4592°N 0.0799°E / 51.4592; 0.0799

Falconwood railway station is situated in the suburb of Falconwood, London Borough of Bexley, and is served by the Bexleyheath Line: it is 10 miles 27 chains (16.6 km) from Charing Cross.^[2] The station was opened much later than the remainder of the line, on 1 January 1936, to serve a growing area. A brick-built ticket office leads down to the cutting in which the station lies. Ticket barriers control access to the platforms.

Service

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

2tph (trains per hour) to London Charing Cross
2tph to London Cannon Street
2tph to London Victoria via Denmark Hill
2tph to Barnehurst
4tph to Dartford

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Eltham		Southeastern Bexleyheath Line & Victoria - Dartford		Welling

Connections

London Buses routes B15 and B16 serve the station.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
↑ Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald, ed. Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 5. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Falconwood railway station.

Falconwood Community Centre

Train times and station information for Falconwood railway station from National Rail

Transport in London

Companies and
organisations

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Roads

Motorways	M1 M4 M11 M25 London Orbital Former: M41 (West Cross Route) A40(M) (Westway) A102(M) (East Cross Route)

Ring roads	London Inner Ring Road London Ringways North Circular Road South Circular Road

Charging	Congestion charge Low emission zone

Ticketing

Other

Former BR sectors

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Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern and Southeastern routes

Southeastern routes serving this station

Metro via Bexleyheath	London Victoria Denmark Hill Peckham Rye Nunhead London Charing Cross London Waterloo East London Cannon Street London Bridge New Cross St Johns Lewisham Blackheath Kidbrooke Eltham Falconwood Welling Bexleyheath Barnehurst Slade Green Dartford

Stations in italics are served on limited occasions, at peak hours or on Sundays only.

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