Lower Sydenham railway station
Lower Sydenham 
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 Lower Sydenham
Location of Lower Sydenham in Greater London
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| Location | Lower Sydenham |
| Local authority | Lewisham |
| Managed by | Southeastern |
| Station code | LSY |
| DfT category | E |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Fare zone | 4 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
 0.447 million |
| 2012–13 |
0.465 million |
| 2013–14 |
0.490 million |
| 2014–15 |
0.528 million |
| 2015–16 |
0.578 million |
| Railway companies | |
| Original company | Mid-Kent Railway |
| Pre-grouping | South Eastern and Chatham Railway |
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 1 January 1857 | Opened |
| 1906 | Resited 400m south |
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| WGS84 | 51°25′28″N 0°02′01″W / 51.4245°N 0.0336°WCoordinates: 51°25′28″N 0°02′01″W / 51.4245°N 0.0336°W |
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Lower Sydenham railway station is located on the boundary of London Borough of Bromley and the London Borough of Lewisham in south east London. The station serves the localities of Lower Sydenham and Southend. Served and managed by Southeastern, it is on the Hayes Line as part of its Metro routes.
The Mid Kent line was built by the Mid-Kent and North Kent Junction Railway (MK&NKJR) and was opened on 1 January 1857 as far as Beckenham Junction (although it was not technically a junction as the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway’s line did not open until 3 May 1858).
From opening the line was worked by the South Eastern Railway (SER). On opening Lower Sydenham was provided with a small goods yard.
Seven years later the MK&NKJR built an extension from a new junction station at New Beckenham to Croydon (Addiscombe Road) which again was operated by the SER. In 1878 a connection was added a quarter mile north of the station to serve the Crystal Palace District Gas Company (which had been established on the site in 1854).
Almost all services from the station have terminated at Charing Cross or Cannon Street stations but between 1880 and 1884 a service worked between Croydon (Addiscombe Road) calling all stations to New Cross and then via a connection to the East London Line and terminating at Liverpool Street station. In the 1890s housing developed to the north and west of the station.
In 1898 the South Eastern Railway and its bitter rivals the London Chatham and Dover Railway agreed to work as one railway company under the name of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and Lower Sydenham became an SECR station.
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