page_title: Brixton railway station
section_title: Future Proposals
hierarchical_section_title: Brixton railway station / Future Proposals
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of passenger railway lines in and around Brixton, London, UK, showing the route of London Overground passing through Brixton without stopping. This map was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. This map may be incomplete, and may contain errors. Don't rely solely on it for navigation.
context_page_description: Brixton railway station is a commuter railway station in Brixton, South London, UK. It is on the Chatham Main Line, 3 miles 14 chains down the line from London Victoria. Trains are operated by Southeastern. The typical service is one train every 15 minutes in both directions.
  It is about 110 yards north of Brixton Underground station, high above ground level on a railway bridge that can be seen from the tube station. Access is from Atlantic Road via staircases. It is also a busy junction, with the Catford Loop via Peckham Rye and Bellingham leaving the Chatham Main Line immediately west of the station.
context_section_description: The London Overground network passes above the station without stopping. This segment of the South London Line became part of the network as the second phrase of the East London line extension project. Completed in December 2012, the extension connected the South London Line to the East and West London Lines, from Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction.
  The line also passes through Loughborough Junction. Adding both stations to the route was excluded from the plan due to the prohibitive cost of building on the high viaducts at each location. The proposals drew criticism for not including new interchange stations at these locations. Until 1976 trains stopped at nearby East Brixton. It has been proposed that this disused station could be reopened instead as the site is close to both Brixton and Loughborough Junction.
caption: Map of rail & tube lines passing through Brixton, showing the location of Brixton station and the London Overground through route
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