Brixton
Brixton Location of Brixton in Greater London
Location	Brixton
Local authority	London Borough of Lambeth
Managed by	Southeastern
Station code(s)	BRX
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
OSI	Brixton[1]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20	1.132 million[2]
2020–21	0.299 million[2]
2021–22	0.646 million[2]
2022–23	0.704 million[2]
2023–24	0.782 million[2]
Railway companies
Original company	London, Chatham and Dover Railway
Pre-grouping	London, Chatham and Dover Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
25 August 1862	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°27′46″N0°06′48″W / 51.4629°N 0.1132°W /51.4629; -0.1132
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Brixton railway station is acommuter railwaystation inBrixton,South London,UK. It is on theChatham Main Line, 3 miles 14 chains (5.1 km) down the line fromLondon Victoria. Trains are operated bySoutheastern. The typical service is one train every 15 minutes in both directions, from Victoria toOrpington viaBromley South.

It is about 110 yards (100 m) north ofBrixton 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 theCatford Loop viaPeckham Rye andBellingham leaving theChatham Main Line immediately west of the station, though there are currently only platforms on the Chatham Main Line. TheSouth London line crosses above the east end of the platforms, without stopping nearby.

Brixton was opened asBrixton and South Stockwell on 25 August 1862 by theLondon, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) to serve the affluent Victorian suburbs of South London.^[3] The initial service ran between Victoria and Herne Hill. Service was extended to a temporary terminus at Elephant and Castle on 6 October 1862 via a reversing move at Herne Hill. From 1 May 1863 services ran directly from Brixton to Camberwell via a curve at Loughborough Junction. Services were extended from Elephant and Castle to Blackfriars on 1 June 1894.^[4]

Services ran fromMoorgate to London Victoria via Snow Hill (Holborn Viaduct),Camberwell New Road and Brixton and South Stockwell toGrosvenor Road, following the opening of the link northeastwards toLondon Blackfriars viaLoughborough Junction in 1864.^[5] The station was also connected to the LC&DR's branch toCrystal Palace High Level viaNunhead soon afterwards, with this section (viaDenmark Hill) becoming part of the modern-dayCatford Loop Line.^{[citation needed]}

The station is currently served only by trains on the main line towards Herne Hill.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

All services at Brixton are operated bySoutheastern usingClass 465 and466EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:^[6]

• 4 tph toLondon Victoria
• 4 tph toOrpington viaBromley South

On weekends, the service is reduced to two trains per hour in each direction.^[6]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
London Victoria		Southeastern Bromley South Line		Herne Hill
	Historical railways
Clapham High Street Line and station open		London, Chatham and Dover Railway City Branch		Loughborough Junction Line open, platforms closed
		London, Chatham and Dover Railway Catford Loop Line		Denmark Hill Line and station open

TheLondon Overground network passes above the station without stopping. This segment of theSouth London Line became part of the network as the second phase of theEast London line extension project. Completed in December 2012, the extension connected the South London Line to the East andWest London Lines, fromSurrey Quays toClapham Junction.^[7]

The line also passes throughLoughborough Junction.^[7] 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.^[8] The proposals drew criticism for not including new interchange stations at these locations.^[9][10] Until 1976 trains stopped at nearbyEast Brixton. It has been proposed that this disused station could be reopened instead as the site is close to both Brixton and Loughborough Junction.^[11][12]

A number of colourfulmurals have been painted on the outside of the station. Inside the station, three bronze sculptures stand on the platforms. This work,Platforms Piece byKevin Atherton, was erected in 1986 and the statues are life casts of three people - two black, one white - who regularly travelled from Brixton.^[13] The statues, believed to be the first sculptures of black British people in a public place in the UK, were givenGrade II listed status in November 2016.^[14]

• 
  Southeastern branded signs
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  Woman waiting at Brixton
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  Her male counterpart
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  The Mural
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  North entrance, cáfe closed
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  Networkers work the local trains.
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  Disused platform linking to theCatford Loop Line, with third statue
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  A 1908Railway Clearing House map of lines through Brixton

v t e LC&DR's Metropolitan Extensions and neighbouring railway lines
Legend
ToSt Pancras Farringdon 1866 2009 Barbican Moorgate 1866 2009 1874 1990 Holborn Viaduct Holborn Viaduct (low) 1874 1916 Victoria City Thameslink 1867 1911 Grosvenor Road Ludgate Hill 1865 1929 Charing Cross Blackfriars River Thames 1867 1916 Battersea Park Road Blackfriars Bridge 1864 1964 Waterloo East ToLondon Bridge Vauxhall Waterloo ToClapham Jct Borough Road 1864 1907 Wandsworth Road Elephant & Castle Clapham High Street Walworth Road 1862 1916 Camberwell 1862 1916 Loughborough Junction Brixton Denmark Hill Catford loop 1866 1976 East Brixton South London Line Herne Hill sidings 1885 1966 North Junction Herne Hill South Junction ToSutton Tulse Hill North Dulwich ToL. Bridge West Dulwich Chatham Main Line toKent

London Buses routes2,3,35,37 (atLambeth Town Hall);45,59,109,118,133,159,196,250,322,333,345 (at Brixton Police Station),355,415,432,689,690,P4,P5 and night routesN2,N3,N35,N109 andN133 serve the station.

• Murder of Deborah Linsley – unsolved 1988 murder of a woman that occurred on a train travelling between Brixton and London Victoria

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