Mottingham railway station

Not to be confused with Nottingham station.

Mottingham

Mottingham Location of Mottingham in Greater London
Location	Eltham
Local authority	Royal Borough of Greenwich
Managed by	Southeastern
Station code	MTG
DfT category	D
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes ^[1]
Fare zone	4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2009–10	1.108 million^[2]
2010–11	1.120 million^[2]
2011–12	1.128 million^[2]
2012–13	1.102 million^[2]
2013–14	1.177 million^[2]
Key dates
1 September 1866	Opened
Other information
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WGS84	51°26′24″N 0°03′01″E / 51.4401°N 0.0504°E / 51.4401; 0.0504Coordinates: 51°26′24″N 0°03′01″E / 51.4401°N 0.0504°E / 51.4401; 0.0504
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Mottingham railway station is a suburban station situated on Court Road between Eltham and Mottingham, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, south-east London. The station is located in Travelcard Zone 4, on the Dartford Loop Line between Lee and New Eltham. The station is operated by Southeastern.

History

Platform view (1991)

The station was first opened by the South Eastern Railway in 1866 as Eltham for Mottingham.^[3] In 1892 it was renamed Eltham & Mottingham. In 1927 it became Mottingham.

The goods yard on the down side to the west of the platforms included a large coal office. A footbridge linking the two platforms was opened in the 1890s. Half a dozen sidings used for rolling stock were built around 1900 on the down side opposite the goods yard.

A three-storey high substation was built next to the station when the Dartford Loop Line was electrified in 1926. The substation was demolished in 1957 later to be replaced by more powerful substations at New Eltham and Hither Green.

On 19 March 1946 the station was the location of a fatal accident when an electric passenger train collided with a stationary light engine that was waiting to move into the sidings. The driver of the passenger train was killed and 13 passengers injured.^[4]

In 1955 the platforms were lengthened to take ten carriage trains. The goods yard closed and five of the six rolling stock sidings were decommissioned in 1968. The signal box closed the following year. In 1992 the platforms were lengthened again and in 2012 the platforms are again being extended to take twelve carriage trains.

The up side ticket office has a mixture of structures, the white clapboard dating from the original station of 1866, with brown brick construction of 1957 and sliding doors installed in 1988.^[5]

Location

Mottingham Station is situated in the town of Mottingham close to the junction of Court Road and the A20 Sidcup bypass. The A20 road outside is a popular hitchiking spot to Dover.^[6]

The station is served by London bus routes 124, 126, 161, 624.^[7]

Facilities

The station has two platforms. Platform 1 the up platform for westbound services to London and Platform 2 the down platform for eastbound services to Kent. A ticket hall is situated on the up side but the station has no ticket gates. There is step free access to both platforms.

The station has a 177 space car park operated by Meteor Parking on behalf of Southeastern.^[8]

Services

All trains from Mottingham are operated by Southeastern, who also manage the station.

The Monday to Friday and Saturday daytime off peak service is:

2tph to London Charing Cross calling at all stations to Hither Green then running fast to London Bridge
2tph to London Cannon Street calling at all stations
2tph to Gravesend via Dartford
2tph to Crayford, then returning to London Cannon Street via Woolwich Arsenal

In the evening and on Sundays there is a half-hourly service to London Charing Cross.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Lee		Southeastern Dartford Loop Line and Sidcup Line		New Eltham

References

↑ "London and South East" (PDF). National Rail Enquiries. National Rail. September 2006. Archived from the original (pdf) on 6 March 2009.
1 2 3 4 5 "Station usage estimates". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
↑ Forgotten Stations of Greater London by J.E.Connor and B.Halford
↑ http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=843
↑ Kent Rail
↑ http://hitchwiki.org/en/London#Direction:_South-East_England_.28Kent.29
↑
↑ http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/mtg/details.html

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mottingham railway station.

Train times and station information for Mottingham railway station from National Rail
An enthusiast's history of Mottingham station

Transport in London

Companies and
organisations

Transport for London	Air Line Buses East London Transit Night Buses Coach Station Cycle Hire Dial-a-Ride London Rail Docklands Light Railway London Overground TfL Rail Tramlink Crossrail (under construction) London River Services London Streets London Underground Night Tube Source London Taxi and Private Hire office

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River operators	Bateaux London City Cruises Crown River Cruises Livett's Launches Lower Thames and Medway Passenger Boat Company Thames Clippers Thames Executive Charters Thames River Services Westminster Passenger Services Association

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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 Sidcup	London Charing Cross London Waterloo East London Cannon Street London Bridge New Cross St Johns Lewisham Hither Green Lee Mottingham New Eltham Sidcup Albany Park Bexley Crayford Slade Green Dartford Stone Crossing Greenhithe Swanscombe Northfleet Gravesend Higham Strood Rochester Chatham Gillingham

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

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