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  Petts Wood Location of Petts Wood in Greater London | |
| Location | Petts Wood |
| Local authority | London Borough of Bromley |
| Managed by | Southeastern |
| Station code | PET |
| DfT category | C2 |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Fare zone | 5 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2019–20 |  2.216 million[1] |
| 2020–21 | 0.399 million[1] |
| 2021–22 |  1.051 million[1] |
| 2022–23 | 1.392 million[1] |
| 2023–24 | 1.596 million[1] |
| Key dates | |
| 9 July 1928 | Opened |
| Other information | |
| External links | |
| Coordinates | 51°23′20″N0°04′27″E / 51.3889°N 0.0742°E /51.3889; 0.0742 |
 London transport portal | |
Petts Wood railway station is on theSouth Eastern Main Line, servingPetts Wood in theLondon Borough of Bromley, south-eastern Greater London. It is 12 miles 53 chains (20.4 km) down the line fromLondon Charing Cross and is situated betweenChislehurst andOrpington stations. It is inLondon fare zone 5.
It has four platform faces on islands located between the slow and fast pairs of tracks. To the north of the station isPetts Wood Junction, where the up (London-bound) and down (country-bound) loop lines link the lines from Charing Cross and Victoria. The station is managed bySoutheastern. There is a waiting room serving the two slow lines. The booking office, Oystercard readers, and ticket machines are all situated at footbridge level; this footbridge is always open to non-passengers.
The station was built on the main line to the north of Orpington and opened on 9 July 1928, initially as a single island platform, with the first tickets printed showing the name as Pett's Wood. The residential areas now surrounding it developed from that date: now the railway divides Petts Wood East and Petts Wood West.
In March 2024, a project to create step-free access at the station was completed.[2]
London Buses routes208,273,R3,R7 and night routeN199 serve the station.[3]
Off peak, all services at Petts Wood are operated bySoutheastern usingClass 376,465,466 and707EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[4]
Additional services, including a number ofThameslink services betweenOrpington,Kentish Town andLuton viaCatford call at the station during the peak hours.
On Sundays, the services between London Cannon Street and Orpington do not run.
From the December 2024 timetable change the off-peak service between London Victoria and Orpington doubled to 4tph on Mondays to Fridays.[5]
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