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Norwood Junction railway station

Norwood Junction London Overground National Rail
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Station entrance
Norwood Junction is located in Greater London
Norwood Junction
Norwood Junction
Location of Norwood Junction in Greater London
Location South Norwood
Local authority London Borough of Croydon
Managed by London Overground
Owner Network Rail
Station code NWD
DfT category C2
Number of platforms 5
Accessible Yes (Northbound only)
Fare zone 4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2011–12 Increase 3.385 million
2012–13 Increase 3.545 million
– interchange  1.171 million
2013–14 Increase 3.758 million
– interchange  Increase 1.206 million
2014–15 Increase 3.864 million
– interchange  Increase 1.309 million
2015–16 Increase 4.266 million
– interchange  Decrease 1.263 million
Railway companies
Original company London & Croydon Railway
Key dates
5 June 1839 Opened as Jolly Sailor
October 1846 Renamed Norwood
1 June 1859 Resited
1 October 1910 Renamed Norwood Junction and South Norwood for Woodside
13 June 1955 Renamed Norwood Junction
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WGS84 51°23′50″N 0°04′30″W / 51.3972°N 0.075°W / 51.3972; -0.075Coordinates: 51°23′50″N 0°04′30″W / 51.3972°N 0.075°W / 51.3972; -0.075
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Norwood Junction railway station is a National Rail station in South Norwood of the London Borough of Croydon, south London and is in Travelcard Zone 4.

The station is managed by London Overground and trains are operated by London Overground (since 23 May 2010) and Southern.

The station has occupied two sites under three different names.

In 1839 the London and Croydon Railway opened Jolly-sailor station — "Jolly-sailor near Beulah Spa" on fares lists and timetables — at the north end of the High Street, adjacent to the Portland Road level crossing. From 1841 the lines through Norwood were used by the London and Brighton Railway and from 1842 the South Eastern Railway, but neither of these companies used the station. (The Jolly Sailor is a pub — originally the Jolly Sailor Inn — on the corner of Portland Road and High Street. The original pub was rebuilt around the late 1860s.)

In 1844 the L&CR was given parliamentary authority to test an experimental atmospheric railway system on the railway. A pumping station was built on Portland Road to create a vacuum in a continuous pipe located centrally between the rails. A piston extended downwards from the trains into a slit in the pipe, with trains blown towards the pumping station by atmospheric pressure. The pumping station was in a Gothic style, with a very tall ornate tower that served both as a chimney and as an exhaust vent for air pumped from the propulsion tube.

As part of the works for the atmospheric system, the world's first railway flyover was constructed beyond the south end of the station to carry the atmospheric line over the conventional London & Brighton Railway steam line. At the same time the level crossing at Portland Road was replaced by a low bridge across the road.


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