Hayes Line

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Hayes Line

Legend London Charing Cross River Thames Waterloo East London Cannon Street River Thames London Bridge Greenwich Line to Deptford New Cross St Johns Lewisham To Hither Green & Blackheath Ladywell Catford Bridge Catford Loop Line Lower Sydenham New Beckenham CML to London Victoria Beckenham Junction CML to Dover Priory Clock House Elmers End Ex-Addiscombe Line and Ex-W&SCR to Selsdon Eden Park West Wickham Hayes

The Hayes Line is the railway service in south east London, United Kingdom operated by Southeastern between Charing Cross or Cannon Street and Hayes in the London Borough of Bromley. Part of its route follows the Mid-Kent Railway.

The line was electrified with the other SECR urban routes during the interwar years by Southern Railway.

During the planning of the Fleet line, now the Jubilee line it was intended that the line would continue on from Charing Cross and then travel through Central London with stations at Aldwych, Ludgate Circus, Fleet Street, Ludgate Circus (City Thameslink), St. Paul's, Bank, Aldgate, Whitechapel then taking over the East London line then down to Lewisham, it was planned that a extension from Lewisham to Hayes was planned by taking over the Hayes line from the National Rail network. However the Fleet line was renamed the current Jubilee line and took a completely new alignment from Green Park and today the Jubilee platforms at Charing Cross are no longer in use.

[edit] Description of the route

• Services commence at either Charing Cross via Waterloo East, or Cannon Street.
• London Bridge - North Kent Junction, Bermondsey: The pioneer London and Greenwich Railway opened its line on 8 February 1836. This section is built on a brick viaduct
• North Kent Junction - Lewisham: opened 30 July 1849 as the North Kent Railway, now called the North Kent line. Most of the railway here is in cutting with the four tracks passing through St Johns railway station, the two northernmost leading into Lewisham station.
• Lewisham - New Beckenham: opened 1 January 1857 as the Mid-Kent line. This opening created a junction at Lewisham.
• New Beckenham - Elmers End: opened on 1 April 1864 as part of an extension of the Mid-Kent line to Addiscombe
• Elmers End - Hayes: this section was built by the West Wickham & Hayes Railway, but was sold to the South Eastern Railway on opening day, 29 May 1882

The Strategic Rail Authority had proposed replacing the Charing Cross services with Cannon Street services^[specify]. Following pressure from local groups it is understood that trains will still run both to Charing Cross and Cannon Street.

There is a limited service to Beckenham Junction.

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