Herne Hill railway station
Herne Hill | |
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Location | Herne Hill |
Local authority | London Borough of Lambeth |
Grid reference | TQ319744 |
Managed by | Southeastern |
Station code | HNH |
DfT category | C2 |
Number of platforms | 4 |
Accessible | Yes[1] |
Fare zone | 2 and 3 |
National Rail annual entry and exit | |
2018–19 | 2.888 million[2] |
– interchange | 1.537 million[2] |
2019–20 | 2.784 million[2] |
– interchange | 1.554 million[2] |
2020–21 | 0.745 million[2] |
– interchange | 0.259 million[2] |
2021–22 | 1.607 million[2] |
– interchange | 0.581 million[2] |
2022–23 | 2.004 million[2] |
– interchange | 0.843 million[2] |
Railway companies | |
Original company | London, Chatham and Dover Railway |
Pre-grouping | South Eastern and Chatham Railway |
Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
Key dates | |
25 August 1862 | Opened |
Other information | |
External links | |
WGS84 | 51°27′11″N 0°06′07″W / 51.453°N 0.102°W |
London transport portal |
Herne Hill railway station is in the
The station building on
for continental Europe. The arrival of the railways transformed Herne Hill from a wealthy suburb with large residential estates into a densely populated urban area.Description
Herne Hill railway station sits at the bottom of the hill that gives the area its name and is close to Brockwell Park.[3] The section of Railton Road outside the station is mixed usage for pedestrians and vehicles.[4]
The
The four tracks are served by two island platforms;[6] northbound trains call at the western platform and southbound trains the eastern platform,[9] providing cross-platform interchange between the two routes.
There are flat junctions at each end of the station: Herne Hill North Junction, where the lines to Loughborough Junction and Brixton diverge; and Herne Hill South Junction, where the lines to West Dulwich and Tulse Hill diverge.[10] Thameslink and Southeastern services cross each other's paths at the junctions, constraining capacity on both routes.[11] The station also has a turnback siding on its eastern side, adjacent to Milkwood Road.[12]
History
The area now known as Herne Hill had been a rural part of the Manor of Milkwell since the 13th century.[13] Two tributaries of the River Effra met at the undeveloped site of the future station;[14] it was known as Island Green until the 18th century.[15]
In 1783 a timber merchant, Samuel Sanders, bought Herne Hill from the Manor.[16] Sanders granted leases for large plots of land to wealthy families – John Ruskin spent his childhood at an estate on Herne Hill. The Effra was covered over in the 1820s;[14] and the area had become an upper-class suburb by the mid-19th century (a contemporary author referred to the hill as "the Elysium" for merchants).[17] The opening of the railway station, which provided convenient and cheap access to central London, started the urbanisation of Herne Hill.[18][19] All of the large estates were eventually cleared to make way for many smaller houses.[20] An 1870 railway travel guide noted the population of Herne Hill was 701;[21] the contemporaneous development of new residential streets would increase the population by 3,000.[22]
Construction
A railway line through Herne Hill was proposed in 1852 by the Mid Kent and London and South Western Junction Railways Company.[23] No construction work was undertaken at that time and the company had ceased to exist by 1860.[24]
In the late 1850s, the East Kent Railway had ambitions to run passenger trains between Kent and London, but it did not own any railway lines in inner London. It reached an agreement with the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) in 1858 to use its West End and Crystal Palace line to access Battersea and (from 1860) Victoria. This arrangement incurred costly access fees, but it was necessary until the company obtained Parliamentary authority to build in London.[25][26]
On 6 August 1860, the Metropolitan Extensions Act granted the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR; the successor to the East Kent company) the powers to build three inner London lines:[27] Beckenham Junction to Herne Hill (4 miles 21 chains or 6.9 kilometres); Herne Hill to Farringdon (4 mi 32 chains or 7.1 km); and Herne Hill to Battersea to connect with the lines into Victoria (2 mi 65 chains or 4.5 km).[28] The route from Beckenham Junction to Battersea closely resembled that of the 1852 proposal, going via Clapham, Brixton, Herne Hill, Dulwich and Sydenham.[23]
Herne Hill station and the first section to be completed, from Victoria to Herne Hill via Stewarts Lane and Brixton, opened on 25 August 1862.[29] The station was designed by architect John Taylor[30] and railway engineers Joseph Cubitt and J.T. Turner.[18] The building was intended to impress: it had tea rooms offering buffets,[31] decorative brickwork and a tower (which also served the practical function of concealing the water tank for steam locomotives).[32] The Building News described the station in 1863 as "spacious and convenient ... and of the very best quality". It also stated that "an unusual amount of decorative taste has been displayed" in the station's construction; even the viaduct was praised as "one of the most ornamental pieces of work we have ever seen attempted on a railway" for its fine brickwork.[33] The station's design prompted the journal to write a 2,000-word editorial bemoaning the comparatively poor architectural quality of other contemporary civil engineering projects.[34] An architectural critic later noted the station was "eulogised" by journals upon its opening and that its architecture was still seen as exemplary at the end of the 19th century.[35]
There were initially two platforms,
The land for the station was compulsorily purchased from the estate of Thomas Vyse (died 1861[38]), manufacturer of straw hats and owner of the Abbey, an estate at 70 Herne Hill; the station and much of the viaduct were built on part of the Abbey's grounds.[39] A new road (Station Road) was built from the junction of Norwood Road and Half Moon Lane, Herne Hill's main thoroughfare, to the station.[40]
The line from Beckenham Junction reached Herne Hill from the south in July 1863,[29] connecting the station to the LCDR's lines in Kent, and finally allowing the LCDR to avoid using the LB&SCR's tracks to access Victoria from Kent.[41] On 6 October 1863, the City Branch opened from Herne Hill as far as Elephant & Castle, via Camberwell and Walworth Road.[42]
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In 1868, the LB&SCR opened a suburban line from London Bridge to Sutton via Tulse Hill. A 1 mi (1.6 km) connecting line from Tulse Hill to Herne Hill opened on 1 January 1869.[43]
Early services
From July 1863, LCDR trains between Victoria and Kent ran through Herne Hill, and to continental Europe via a connecting steamboat from Dover Harbour to Calais;[44] these boat trains left Victoria and Ludgate Hill simultaneously and were joined at Herne Hill.[45] Express journeys from Herne Hill to Dover, a distance of 74 mi (119.1 km), took 1 hour 36 minutes, at an average speed of 46.25 mph (74.4 km/h).[46] Services to London were split at Herne Hill to give passengers easier access to the City of London and beyond;[47] the LCDR began operating direct services to King's Cross and Barnet (now High Barnet Underground station) from Herne Hill when Snow Hill tunnel opened.[48]
A popular workmen's train (one penny per journey) ran between Ludgate Hill and Victoria via Herne Hill from 1865. Trains left from both termini at 04:55 and returned at 18:15.[49] The LCDR was compelled to operate this service by Parliament to compensate for the large number of working-class homes destroyed in Camberwell during the construction of the City Branch.[50] Regular one-way fares to Ludgate Hill were eightpence, sixpence and fourpence for first, second and third class respectively (or return for one shilling, ninepence and sevenpence respectively), with journey times of 15 minutes on express trains and 26 minutes when calling at all stops.[51]
Both the
Changes from 1870 to 1923
By 1870 a track had been added to the east of the station and two sidings had been added to the west;[56][57] one of the western sidings was a bay platform for passenger trains, which was accessed from the platform adjoining the upper floor.[58] Interlocking signalling was in use at Herne Hill by 1880.[59]
The LCDR enlarged the station in 1884 to meet growing demand: the viaduct was widened to allow for the construction of a second island platform and two lines to the east
At the beginning of 1899, the LCDR and the neighbouring
A late-night service from Ludgate Hill (departing 01:15) to Beckenham Junction via Herne Hill began in 1910. The intention was to satisfy journalists on Fleet Street who regularly complained in print about the poor quality of service on the line; those working on the morning papers often worked beyond midnight and missed the last train.[67]
Services to Farringdon from Herne Hill were discontinued in 1916 with the closure of Snow Hill tunnel to passengers, and trains from the south terminated at
Modernisation
Work began on electrifying the former LCDR suburban routes in 1924. Herne Hill station was extensively remodelled as part of these works: the eastern island platform was lengthened; the original island platform was demolished and replaced by one further west, allowing two tracks to be laid between the island platforms; the western sidings were removed; and the upper floor was closed to passengers.[71][72]
On 12 July 1925, a 660-volt third-rail system came into operation on both routes through Herne Hill, from Victoria to Orpington on the Chatham Main Line and along the entire length of the City Branch. Electric trains ran every 20 minutes on both routes during the day[73] and were kept overnight at the sorting sidings north of the station.[74]
The distinctive signal box overlooking Norwood Road and a similar signal box at the northern end of the station were demolished in 1956 and replaced by a single signal box adjacent to the north junction.
By 1959, the pattern of commuter services at Herne Hill had taken the shape it held into the 21st century: all-stops trains from Victoria to Orpington and from the City of London to Wimbledon and Sutton (but, unlike the modern Sutton Loop, via West Croydon).[78] However, there was a decline in the number of electric trains on the Chatham Main Line through Herne Hill in the years after the war. Immediately after electrification in 1925, six trains used the route between Herne Hill and Shortlands in each direction during every off-peak hour. By 1960, it had dropped to two trains in each direction.[79]
The Herne Hill Sorting Sidings closed on 1 August 1966 and the freight line to the east of the station was taken out of service.[80] Nothing of the sidings remains: residential accommodation has been built along Shakespeare Road (on the western sidings) and commercial premises have been built along Milkwood Road (on the eastern sidings).[81]
From 1988
In 1988, Snow Hill tunnel re-opened and the former LCDR City Branch formed the basis of the new
From 1994 until the completion of High Speed 1 in November 2007 Eurostar services linking London Waterloo to Brussels and Paris passed through Herne Hill without stopping.[84] This marked the end of rail services to the continent via Herne Hill, which had been started by the LCDR in 1863 when the line between Victoria and Dover via Herne Hill was completed.
The upper floor of the station, which had not been used by passengers since 1925, was converted into 3,000 sq ft (278.7 m2) of office space in 1991 and rented as 'Tower House' (after the station's distinctive tower).[80] The disused freight line to the east of the station was partly reopened in 2009 as a siding for use by Thameslink trains to compensate for the loss of sidings when the Moorgate Thameslink branch was closed.[12][85] The line's connection to the south junction was severed during these works. The station had become fully accessible by 2010: lifts were installed to provide step-free access to the platforms in 2008[86] and a unisex disabled-accessible toilet was opened on the southbound platforms in 2010.[87]
Accidents and disruption
On 6 November 1947, a steam train approaching from West Dulwich passed a signal at danger in heavy fog and crashed into an electric train crossing the station's south junction towards Tulse Hill. One passenger on the electric train was killed and nine others were hospitalised.[88]
A minor accident occurred on 30 June 1957. A light engine travelling towards Tulse Hill was waiting to cross the south junction when it was struck from behind by an express passenger train from Victoria that had passed a signal at danger. The driver of the light engine and two passengers from the express were hospitalised but quickly discharged.[89]
A second fatal collision occurred at the sorting sidings, just north of the station, on 1 April 1960 in fog that reduced visibility to 60 ft (18.3 m). A steam locomotive was waiting on the southbound track outside Herne Hill for a proceed signal when the signalman cleared an electric passenger train behind the steam locomotive to proceed down the same track. The steam locomotive was struck from behind, killing the electric train's driver.[90]
Future
Services
The route through the station was busier from December 2014 to 2018 as Thameslink trains serving
In January 2013, the Department for Transport (DfT) announced that trains serving the Sutton Loop Line (also known as the Wimbledon Loop) will continue to travel across London after 2018. The number of trains calling at Herne Hill on the route will remain unchanged, with four trains per hour.[98] The DfT also decided the Sutton/Wimbledon Loop will remain part of the Thameslink franchise until at least late 2020;[99] following which the route is now served by the Class 700 trains.
In the longer term, Network Rail has forecast that by 2031 there will be 900 more passengers attempting to travel on the route between Herne Hill and Blackfriars during the busiest peak hour every weekday than can be accommodated on the trains.[100] It is anticipated that eight-car trains with higher capacity (similar to the Class 378 trains used on inner London metro routes) will eventually be required to address this shortfall.[101]
Station infrastructure
The route from Victoria to Orpington via Herne Hill is projected to be amongst the most congested and overcrowded in South East London by 2026.[102] Network Rail is considering grade-separating the two lines passing through Herne Hill so that trains would not cross each other's paths at the station's junctions;[103] this restricts the number of services that can pass through the station. A 2008 route utilisation strategy for South London concluded that this improvement will not be required before 2020 but recommended safeguarding the required land.[103] Grade-separation is supported by Southeastern[104] and First Capital Connect believed it should be given more consideration,[105] but Network Rail has stated that it would be difficult to carry out the work because the station is on a viaduct and surrounded by buildings.[106] The 2011 route utilisation strategy, which examined options for congestion relief at Herne Hill before 2031, did not suggest grade-separation as an option in the 2011–2031 period.[96][101]
This project would also enable the platforms at Herne Hill to be lengthened to accommodate 12-car trains as the current northern junction, which prevents them from being extended, would be removed.[93] However, longer trains could not be used on the Sutton/Wimbledon Loop without also rebuilding Tulse Hill and Elephant & Castle.[107]
The congestion within the station itself has been noted by Network Rail and it is keeping the situation under review.[108] Transport for London (TfL) has recommended that specific improvement works (new entrance doors, removal of interior wall, wider stairs to platforms and second station entrance) be carried out between 2014 and 2019.[109]
TfL has also suggested there may be potential for the turnback siding adjacent to Milkwood Road to be converted for passenger use.[110] This would require substantial changes to the station as there is no direct access to the platforms from Milkwood Road and the current subway for accessing the platforms does not extend east of the southbound platform.[6]
Incorporation into London Overground
The Mayor of London published a long-term vision for the London Overground in February 2012.[111] It recommends that all London suburban rail services should eventually be devolved to TfL and that suburban services currently provided by Southeastern be devolved before 2020 to demonstrate the benefits of this approach.[112] Southeastern's suburban services include the route between Victoria and Orpington via Herne Hill.[113] TfL had announced that it would bid in late 2012 to have more involvement in these services after the expiration of Southeastern's franchise in early 2014,[114] but the DfT announced in March 2013 that Southeastern's franchise was being extended until mid-2018.[115]
Victoria line extension
TfL has considered extending the Victoria line to Herne Hill to provide faster turnaround at the southern end of the line. The extension is not a priority for TfL as it has a weaker business case than other infrastructure projects.[116]
Services
Services at Herne Hill are operated by Southeastern and Thameslink using Class 465, 466 and 700 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[117]
- 4 tph to St Albans City via London Blackfriars
- 2 tph to London Victoria
- 2 tph to Orpington via Bromley South
- 4 tph to Mitcham Junction)
During the peak hours, additional Southeastern services operate between London Victoria and Bromley South.
During the evening and on Sundays, a number of Thameslink services are extended beyond St Albans City to Luton and Bedford.
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External links
- Train times and station information for Herne Hill railway station from National Rail