Abbey Wood railway station
Abbey Wood is a major National Rail and Elizabeth line interchange station in Abbey Wood, south-east London, England. It lies between Plumstead and Belvedere on the North Kent Line, 11 miles 43 chains from London Charing Cross.Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Abbey Wood, southeast London, England, UK
- Also known as: “Abbey Wood Railway Station”, “Abbey Wood Station”, and “ABW”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Saint Michael and All Angels and Lesnes Abbey.
Saint Michael and All Angels
Church
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saint Michael and All Angels is a church, which is situated 710 feet southwest of Abbey Wood railway station.
Lesnes Abbey
Historic site
Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lesnes Abbey is a former abbey, now ruined, in Abbey Wood, in the London Borough of Bexley, southeast London, England. It is a scheduled monument, and the abbey's ruins are listed at Grade II by Historic England. Lesnes Abbey is situated 2,100 feet east of Abbey Wood railway station.
Church of the Cross
Church
Photo: Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of the Cross is situated 1,900 feet northeast of Abbey Wood railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abbey Wood and Thamesmead.
Abbey Wood
Suburb
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abbey Wood is an area in southeast London, England, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and bordering the London Borough of Bexley. It is located 10.6 miles east of Charing Cross. According to the 2021 census, Abbey Wood has a population of 17,700.
Thamesmead
Suburb
Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thamesmead is an area of south-east London, England, straddling the border between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley. It is located 11 miles east of Charing Cross, north-east of Woolwich and west of Belvedere. It mainly consists of social housing built from the mid-1960s onwards on former marshland on the south bank of the River Thames.
West Heath
Suburb
West Heath is an area of South East London within the London Borough of Bexley. It lies south of Abbey Wood and north of Welling.
Abbey Wood railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Greenwich, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.49108° or 51° 29′ 28″ northLongitude
0.12041° or 0° 7′ 14″ eastElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Operator
TfLNetwork
National Rail;Elizabeth lineAbbreviation
“ABW”Open location code
9F32F4RC+C5OpenStreetMap ID
node 5871218017OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
6945517Wikidata ID
Q2087079
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Yiddish—“Abbey Wood railway station” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “estació de ferrocarril d’Abbey Wood”
- Chinese: “修道院森林車站”
- Dutch: “station Abbey Wood”
- Dutch: “Station Abbey Wood”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة ابى ود”
- Finnish: “Abbey Woodin rautatieasema”
- French: “Abbey Wood”
- German: “Bahnhof Abbey Wood”
- Hungarian: “Abbey Wood állomás”
- Italian: “stazione di Abbey Wood”
- Italian: “Stazione di Abbey Wood”
- Japanese: “アビーウッド駅”
- Lombard: “Stazzion de Abbey Wood”
- Spanish: “Abbey Wood”
- Ukrainian: “Аббі-вуд (станція)”
- Ukrainian: “Аббі-вуд”
- Urdu: “ایبی ووڈ ریلوے اسٹیشن”
- Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd Abbey Wood”
- Yiddish: “עבי וואוד באן סטאנציע”
- Yiddish: “עבי וואוד”
- “Abbey Wood”
- “ABW”
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