Trains to Abbey Wood - Station Details and further Information on Abbey Wood Train Services
Abbey Wood train station serves the suburb of Abbey Wood in South East London. It is served by Southeastern, and is between Plumstead and Belvedere stations on the North Kent Line. Crossrail line 1's south eastern branch is expected to terminate here, as is the Greenwich Waterfront Transit a putative segregated busway. Local interests are campaigning for both these schemes to extend further eastwards, to Ebbsfleet/Gravesend and Erith respectively.
The station's name boards identify it as Abbey Wood for Thamesmead, as it is the closest train station to Thamesmead (buses run from the station to Thamesmead proper). Alphabetically, it is the first station in the UK.
The typical off-peak service from the station is:
4 trains per hour to London Cannon Street via Woolwich Arsenal and Greenwich (stopping service)
2 trains per hour to London Charing Cross via Woolwich Arsenal and Greenwich (semi-fast service)
2 trains per hour to London Cannon Street via Sidcup and Lewisham (stopping service)
2 to Dartford (stopping service)
2trains per hour to Gillingham (semi-fast) |