page_title: Brixton railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Brixton railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Brixton Station (Main line). View eastwards, towards Herne Hill, Bromley South etc., also Loughborough Junction (to left); ex-Chatham (LC&amp;DR) main line Victoria - Kent Coast, with connection here to South London Line at Loughborough Junction - which crosses over on the girder bridge on right, going towards Battersea Park and Victoria.
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: Brixton was opened as Brixton and South Stockwell in 1862 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LC&DR) to serve the affluent Victorian suburbs of South London. Services ran from Moorgate to London Victoria via Snow Hill (Holborn Viaduct), Camberwell New Road and Brixton and South Stockwell to Grosvenor Road, following the opening of the link northeastwards to London Blackfriars via Loughborough Junction in 1864. The station was also connected to the LC&DR's branch to Crystal Palace High Level via Nunhead soon afterwards, with this section (via Denmark Hill) becoming part of the modern-day Catford Loop Line.
  The station is currently served only by trains on the main line towards Herne Hill. The Denmark Hill line platforms were closed in April 1916 as a wartime economy measure and have been demolished except for a short section of the up platform. However, the line itself remains in regular and frequent use by both freight and passenger services.
caption: Brixton main line station in 1960
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