Woolwich railway station

Not to be confused with Woolwich Arsenal station or Woolwich Dockyard railway station.

Woolwich
Woolwich Crossrail station box on Berkeley Homes open day
Woolwich Location of Woolwich in Greater London
Location	Woolwich
Local authority	Royal Borough of Greenwich
Managed by	Crossrail
Owner	Transport for London
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	4
Key dates
2018	Due to open
Other information
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WGS84	51°29′30″N 0°04′19″E / 51.491578°N 0.071819°E / 51.491578; 0.071819Coordinates: 51°29′30″N 0°04′19″E / 51.491578°N 0.071819°E / 51.491578; 0.071819
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Woolwich railway station is a station under construction on the Elizabeth line in London, United Kingdom. The station will serve the Woolwich area from 2018 and will have up to 12 trains per hour to Canary Wharf and Central London.

History

Woolwich Station is being built by Crossrail Limited (CRL) as part of the Crossrail rail project, which is jointly sponsored by the UK Department for Transport (DfT) and Transport for London (TfL).^[1] The construction of a station at Woolwich was not proposed as part of the original Crossrail route. However, after talks between Greenwich London Borough Council and Berkeley Homes on the £162 million required for the station, the House of Commons Select Committee recognised its inclusion in March 2007.^[1]

Services

The opening of the new Crossrail station will reduce the journey time from Woolwich to Canary Wharf, Bond Street and Heathrow stations to just eight minutes, 21 minutes and 47 minutes respectively.^[1] When Crossrail becomes operational in 2018, the new station located on the south-east section of the route will see up to 12 trains an hour. It will run during peak hours, connecting south-east London and the Royal Docks with Canary Wharf, central London and beyond.^[1] The closest existing station is Woolwich Arsenal. The station itself is separate and will not serve as a direct interchange with the DLR and local National Rail services which are located at nearby Woolwich Arsenal.

Site

The Woolwich station is being built on the south-east portion of the Crossrail line that ends at Abbey Wood. The Woolwich redevelopment site at Royal Arsenal is a waterside housing and retail development area adjacent to the Woolwich station. It is spread across approximately 30 hectares of land and is being developed by Berkeley Homes.^[1] The site is being developed with the construction of approximately 2,517 new homes, in addition to the 1,248 homes already built.^[2] The area also includes a new heritage quarter along with the Greenwich Heritage Centre and Royal Artillery Museum, as well as infrastructural developments such as retail stores, restaurants and cafes, offices, hotels and a cinema.^[2]

Design

The station box is 276 m long and 14 m below ground, and sits below a major housing development site. The station is built by Balfour Beatty after a design by Weston Williamson and Arup Group (engineering). The station entrance in Dial Arch Square will feature a 30 m wide bronze-clad portal.^[3] The minimalist, straightforward design will provide entry into the station from a single 30-metre wide bronze clad portal.^[2] Natural light will enter through the main entrance and ceiling into the ticket hall, whilst a connection to daylight is present below ground on the platforms.^[2] Set back from the main street and surrounded by a series of heritage listed buildings and a large retail unit, the station acts as a simple portal connecting all these elements together.^[2] The station entrance opens out on to Dial Arch Square, a green space, flanked by a series of Grade I and II listed buildings. In addition to enhancing the experience in and out of the station, the urban realm design also helps connect the station with the wider town centre.^[2] In addition to the station improvements, Crossrail has been working with the Royal Borough of Greenwich on proposals for improvements to the area around the station.^[2]

Notes

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Preceding station		Crossrail	Following station
Custom House towards Reading or Heathrow Airport		Crossrail Elizabeth line	Abbey Wood Terminus
	Proposed Development
Preceding station		Crossrail	Following station
Silvertown towards Reading or Heathrow Airport		Crossrail Elizabeth line	Abbey Wood Terminus

Current rail infrastructure projects in the United Kingdom

Projects	21st-century modernisation of the Great Western Main Line Crossrail Croxley Rail Link East West Rail Link (Varsity Line) Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme Electric Spine Gateway Plus High Speed 2 Northern Hub Northern line extension to Battersea Ordsall Chord, Manchester South Wales Metro Thameslink Programme

Electrification	Blackpool North–Preston Parts of Electric Spine (including Didcot Parkway–Oxford Bedford–Corby/Nottingham/Sheffield Reading–Basingstoke Oxford–Bletchley-Bedford) Glasgow Queen Street–Edinburgh via Falkirk High Gospel Oak–Woodgrange Park Guide Bridge–Stalybridge Manchester Victoria–Leeds Manchester Victoria–Preston 21st-century modernisation of the Great Western Main Line (including Hayes & Harlington–Bristol/Swansea Henley–Twyford Marlow–Maidenhead Reading–Basingstoke Reading–Newbury Slough–Windsor & Eton) Rugeley Trent Valley–Walsall Welsh Valleys

Stations	Battersea Power Station Birmingham Curzon Street Birmingham Interchange Brent Cross Thameslink Broadway Cambridge North Canary Wharf Cassiobridge Corwen Edinburgh Gateway Ilkeston Kenilworth Low Moor Nine Elms Old Oak Common Watford Vicarage Road Winslow Wixams Woolwich

◄ Proposed

Crossrail

Stations transferring from TfL Rail in 2017	Liverpool Street Stratford Maryland Forest Gate Manor Park Ilford Seven Kings Goodmayes Chadwell Heath Romford Gidea Park Harold Wood Brentwood Shenfield

Stations from 2018	Heathrow Terminal 4 Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 Hayes & Harlington Southall Hanwell West Ealing Ealing Broadway Acton Main Line Paddington Bond Street Tottenham Court Road Farringdon Whitechapel Canary Wharf Custom House Woolwich Abbey Wood

Stations from 2019	Reading Twyford Maidenhead Taplow Burnham Slough Langley Iver West Drayton

Proposed stations	Tring Berkhamsted Hemel Hempstead Apsley Kings Langley Watford Junction Harrow and Wealdstone Heathrow Terminal 5 Old Oak Common Ladbroke Grove (Crossrail) Silvertown

Operations	MTR Crossrail/TfL Rail Transport for London London Rail

Rolling stock	Class 315 (2015-2017) Class 345 (from 2017)

Related routes	Crossrail 2 Great Eastern Main Line Great Western Main Line Heathrow Connect

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