Belvedere railway station is a railway station in South East London

London

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 between Abbey Wood

Abbey Wood railway station

Abbey Wood railway station serves the suburb of Abbey Wood in South East London. It is served by Southeastern, and is between and stations on the North Kent Line....

 and Erith

Erith railway station

Erith station serves Erith in the London Borough of Bexley, southeast London.The station stands between Belvedere and Slade Green on the North Kent line...

. It is served by Southeastern

Southeastern (train operating company)

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. A level crossing

Level crossing

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 beyond the platforms' western limits was closed prior to the westerly extension of platforms circa 1994 and the ticket office and passenger shelters were rebuilt soon afterwards.

Services

The typical off-peak service from the station is:

• 6tph (trains per hour) (xx00/xx10/xx20/xx30/xx40/xx50) to London Cannon Street
  Cannon Street station
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  , calling at , , Woolwich Arsenal, , , , , Greenwich
  Greenwich station
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  , and London Bridge
  London Bridge station
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• 2tph (xx00/xx30) to , calling at and
• 2tph (xx10/xx40) to Slade Green, calling at Erith
• 2tph (xx20/xx50) to , calling at Erith, Slade Green, , , , , , and

Several peak services, late evening and all trains on Sunday run to and from London Charing Cross

Charing Cross station

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. The station is non-stopped by fast services running to Gillingham from Charing Cross, which run fast until Abbey Wood in the west or Dartford in the east. The station sees appearances from freight trains several times a day, usually hauled by Class 66 diesel locomotives, up to Angerstein Wharf, the branch to which leaves the North Kent Line just after Charlton.

All trains serving the station are formed of either Class 465

British Rail Class 465

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, Class 466

British Rail Class 466

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 or Class 376

British Rail Class 376

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 electrical multiple units. There have, however been extremely rare appearances of Class 375

British Rail Class 375

The British Rail Class 375 Electrostar electric multiple unit train was built by Bombardier Transportation at their Derby Works, from 1999 to 2005...

trains serving the station in the past.

Onward transport links

The following buses stop very near to Belvedere station:

• 180 to Plumstead, Woolwich, Charlton, Greenwich and Lewisham.
• 229 to Abbey Wood and Thamesmead.
• 229 to Erith, Northumberland Heath, Bexleyheath, Bexley and Sidcup.
• 401 to Thamesmead East and Thamesmead.
• 401 to Upper Belvedere and Bexleyheath
• 469 to Abbey Wood, Plumstead, Woolwich and Woolwich Common.
• 469 to Erith

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