South Bermondsey station looking south on 15th June 2013. The original station was situated just to the north-west of here and opened with the LBSCR South London Line as Rotherhithe on 13th August 1866 and renamed South Bermondsey in 1869, with wooden side platforms on the outside of the three-track viaduct. This was closed as a First World War economy on 1st January 1917 but reopened on 1st May 1919. By the mid 1920s it had fallen into an advanced state of disrepair and, with the lifting of the centre track, the opportunity was taken to provide a new island platform in that space and this opened on 17th June 1928. The 1866 station then closed and nothing now remains. The 1928 station once had a wooden canopy but was removed either in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Until 8th December 2012, this station was also served by the long-established South London Metro service between London Bridge and Victoria but this was discontinued and on the following day most of the line was taken over by the London Overground, reviving a line from Surrey Quays that had closed in 1911 and which joined the South London Line between South Bermondsey and Queens Road Peckham stations. South Bermondsey does, however, remain open with a regular service of trains from London Bridge to other destinations in south and south-east London.

Location: South Bermondsey

Original line: South London Railway: London Bridge Approach (London, Brighton and Souh Coast Railway)

Photographer: David Bosher

Contact photographer: David Bosher

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Photosets: London Area Stations 2009-2023  Station nameboards, National and Heritage lines 1974-2023  

Date: 15/06/2013

Image number: 73316

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