Abbey Wood Branch

Abbey Wood
Abbey Wood railway station (2008)
Abbey Wood Location of Abbey Wood in Greater London
Location	Abbey Wood
Local authority	London Borough of Bexley and Royal Borough of Greenwich
Grid reference	TQ473789
Managed by	Southeastern
Station code	ABW
DfT category	C2
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2011–12	3.134 million
2012–13	3.175 million
2013–14	3.282 million
2014–15	3.319 million
2015–16	2.929 million
Railway companies
Original company	South Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	South Eastern and Chatham Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
30 July 1849 (1849-07-30)	Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°29′28″N 0°07′17″E / 51.4910°N 0.1214°E / 51.4910; 0.1214Coordinates: 51°29′28″N 0°07′17″E / 51.4910°N 0.1214°E / 51.4910; 0.1214

Abbey Wood railway station serves the suburb of Abbey Wood in south east London. It is served by Southeastern, and is between Plumstead and Belvedere stations on the North Kent Line and local Greenwich Line services. The station will be served by Crossrail and Thameslink from 2018, giving a direct service to Central London and onto Heathrow, Maidenhead and Reading and Luton. For now Southeastern will serve the station until the given date.

It is the closest railway station to the suburb of Thamesmead (buses run from the station to Thamesmead proper). Alphabetically, it is the second station in the UK, after Abbey Road DLR station.

Opened by the South Eastern Railway on 30 July 1849, the operations of which were handed over to the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1899, it became part of the Southern Railway during the grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When BR was divided into sectors in the 1980s the station was served by Network SouthEast until the privatisation of British Railways.