New Cross Gate station

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Template:London stations New Cross Gate station is a London Underground and railway station in New Cross. It is about 600 metres from New Cross station. It is in zone 2, and is a southern terminus of the East London Line. The next station north is Surrey Quays.

The station is operated by Southern trains. Overground trains run south to Caterham, London Victoria (on the South London Line), and West Croydon, and north to London Bridge, in approximately 5 minutes, and some trains continue to Charing Cross. The next stations on the overground railway are London Bridge to the north, and Brockley to the south.

The East London line extension will extend the tube service south via a flyover to West Croydon and the construction of a train servicing facility nearby.

England's railway boom of the 1830s led to two competing companies driving lines through the area. The first, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) established a station on the New Cross Road close to Hatcham in 1839. The second company, the South Eastern Railway (SER) established a second near Amersham Way in the heart of New Cross in 1849. Both companies called their stations "New Cross".

The confusing state of affairs was allowed to continue until the two companies were absorbed into the Southern Railway on the post-war grouping in 1923. To avoid confusion the Southern changed the name of the "Brighton" station - the one furthest away from New Cross - to "New Cross Gate", leaving the "South Eastern" station as "New Cross". And so it has remained ever since.

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