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East Croydon is a railway station, tram stop and associated bus station in Croydon, Greater London, England.It is located in Travelcard Zone 5. At 10 miles 28 chains (10.35 mi; 16.66 km) from London Bridge, [7] it is the 20th busiest station in Britain, was the 10th busiest in 2020–21 (due to the COVID pandemic), [8] is the busiest national rail station in London outside of fare zones 1 and ...
This is a list of stations in London Borough of Croydon. It includes all stations on the Network Rail Main Line Services that are open and Tramlink stops. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Fare zone 6 is an outer zone of Transport for London's zonal fare system used for calculating the price of tickets for travel on the London Underground, London Overground, Docklands Light Railway, [1] National Rail services (since 2007), [2] and the Elizabeth line within Greater London.
No. 1 Croydon, formerly the NLA Tower, Britain's 88th tallest tower, [67] close to East Croydon station, is an example of 1970s architecture. The tower was originally nicknamed the Threepenny bit building, as it resembles a stack of pre-decimalisation Threepence coins, which were 12-sided. It is now most commonly called The Octagon, being 8-sided.
The line at the south end of East Croydon station was damaged on 13 October 1915 [103] and Streatham Common station was hit by a bomb in September 1916. [104] Salfords station was opened on 8 October 1915 initially for the use of workers at the nearby Monotype Corporation factory. It continued to operate as a private halt after the war and was ...
Stations at major junctions included Clapham Junction, East Croydon, Three Bridges, Horsham, and Lewes. The use of Mocatta's modular station designs was not perpetuated. During the 1850s and 1860s most stations were constructed according to one or two stock designs prepared by the Chief Engineers, R. Jacomb-Hood and Frederick Banister (1860 ...
The station platforms A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Streatham Common railway station. The Balham Hill and East Croydon line was constructed by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) as a short-cut on the Brighton Main Line to London Victoria, avoiding Crystal Palace and Norwood Junction.
Croydon East may refer to: East Croydon station, a rail and tram station in Croydon, London, England; Croydon East (UK Parliament constituency) ...