Abbey Wood railway station
Abbey Wood 
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Abbey Wood railway station (2008)
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 Abbey Wood
Location of Abbey Wood in Greater London
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| Location | Abbey Wood |
| Local authority | 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 |
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| WGS84 | 51°29′28″N 0°07′17″E / 51.4910°N 0.1214°ECoordinates: 51°29′28″N 0°07′17″E / 51.4910°N 0.1214°E |
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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. The station will be served by Crossrail from 2018, giving a direct service to Central London and onto Heathrow, Maidenhead and Reading.
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.
During the 1860s William Morris famously used a decorated wagon to commute between this station and his new home at Red House, Bexleyheath, occasionally with his eccentric and artistic house guests.
The ticket office at Abbey Wood (NLC5131) was APTIS-equipped by November 1986, making it one of the very first stations with the ticketing system which was eventually found across the UK at all staffed British Rail stations by the end of the 1980s.
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