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It owes its existence to the ''South London Railway Act'' 1862, which allowed the (LBSCR) used the southern pair. Several of the stations were shared by the two companies. The South Cross Route , one side of the Ringway 1 inner Ring Road , would have paralleled much of the South London Line. The following are the stations which are, or have been, on the line:
Electrification The main importance of this line is that it was a pioneering 1909 the first electric trains began services. For the first three years, steam trains alternated with the electrics: the latter operated a 15-minute interval service from 7.30am to midnight. In the first year of electric operation, passengers carried almost doubled, from 4 million to 7.5 million. The electrification used the overhead system at 6700 V AC, supplied by the power station at Deptford . The line was converted to Southern Railway standard third-rail 660 V DC on 17 June 1928 ). The entirety of the route, apart from the London termini, is in Travelcard Zone 2 . THE OUTER ROUTE Another route between Victoria and London Bridge, also operated by Southern , follows the Brighton main lines. It has the following stations:
The Victoria - Brighton line continues southwards at this point; the connecting link runs to the London Bridge - Brighton line at Sydenham . That line from Wandsworth Common to Sydenham was opened on 1 December 1856 by the ''West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway'' in connection with the removal of the Crystal Palace from Hyde Park to Sydenham Hill. The stations on the remainder of this route are:
This line is in Zones 1 to 4 . Both the lines will form part of the proposed East London Line southern extensions - the South London Line from Surrey Quays Tube Station to Wandsworth Road (and thence to Clapham Junction ) and the outer line from New Cross Gate to Crystal Palace. EXTERNAL LINKS
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