Loughborough Junction railway station
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- Loughborough Junction does not serve Loughborough in Leicestershire. The station there is on the Great Central Railway.
Loughborough Junction railway station is in Brixton, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It lies between Elephant & Castle and Herne Hill, and serves both suburban South Eastern Trains and the Thameslink line on the Sutton Loop.
The station began life on the spur line which joined the South London Line with the line running to the south: that spur line ran from Canterbury Road near Brixton. Almost on the Loughborough end of the junction was the first of the stations, called Loughborough Road: it was opened in October 1864. Six years later, on 1 Dec 1872, two further sets of platforms were built: on the main line, and on a second spur to the east (the latter were called the Cambria platforms after a nearby road). At that date the whole station was renamed Loughborough Junction. (The first external link below gives a very clear idea of the station site.)
During World War I many lesser-used suburban services were closed, to preserve the railways' ability to service the war effort: the first set of platforms at the junction were closed on 14 March 1916, and were never re-opened. When lines in the Southern Railway suburban network were electrified, some rationalisation of services again took place, and the Cambria Road platforms at Loughborough Junction were also closed on 12 July 1925.
Although this left the station with no junction, the name has remained. The current (2005) proposals to construct the extensions to the East London line might well put the clock back, since the South London Line passes above the station and is part of the scheme.
Trivia
If you stand in the middle of the junction of Loughborough Road, Hinton Road and Coldharbour Lane - a few yards from this station, you can see six railway bridges.
External links
- Subterranea Britannic article (http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/l/loughborough_junction/index.shtml) - includes photographs and map of this station and Camberwell New Road station
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