Trains at Clapham Junction, SWML & BML, 20/07/26 & 27/07/26

Clapham is a major railway station near St John's Hill in south-west Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth, England, 2 miles 57 chains (2.71 mi; 4.37 km) from London Victoria and 3 miles 74 chains (3.93 mi; 6.32 km) from London Waterloo.

Despite its name, Clapham Junction is not in Clapham, a district 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south-east.

A major transport hub, Clapham Junction station is on both the South West Main Line and Brighton Main Line, as well as numerous other routes and branch lines which pass through or diverge from the main lines at this station.

It serves as a southern terminus of both the Mildmay and Windrush lines of the London Overground.

Routes from London's south and south-west termini, Victoria and Waterloo, funnel through the station, making it the busiest in Europe by number of trains using it: between 100 and 180 per hour, except for the five hours after midnight. better source needed.

The station is also the busiest UK station for interchanges between services, as well as the only railway station in Great Britain with more interchanges than entries or exits.

On 21 May 1838, the London and Southampton Railway became the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR), and opened its line from Nine Elms as far as Woking. The second line, initially from Nine Elms to Richmond, opened on 27 July 1846.

Nine Elms was replaced in 1848 as the terminus by Waterloo Bridge station, now Waterloo. The line to Victoria opened by 1860.

Clapham Junction opened on 2 March 1863, a joint venture of the L&SWR, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) and the West London Extension Railway (WLER) as an interchange station for their lines.

The railway companies, to attract a middle- and upper-class clientele, seized the nonindustrial parish calculating that being upon the slopes of Clapham's plateau would only reinforce this distinction, leading to a long-lasting misunderstanding that the station is in Clapham.

The station is named Clapham Junction because it is at the junction of several rail lines. The name is not given to any rail junction near the station which, without end-on intercompany junctions, are:

Falcon Junction at the south end of the station, where the West London Line (WLL) joins the Brighton Slow Lines
Ludgate Junction at the eastern end of the Windsor Line platforms to the WLL
Latchmere SW Junction connecting the WLL to the Windsor lines at Ludgate Junction.

Latchmere Main Junction connecting the WLL to the Brighton Line at Falcon Junction.

West London Extension Junction and Junction for Waterloo, relaid for Eurostar empty-stock moves from the Windsor Lines to the WLL.

Pouparts Junction where the low-level and high-level approaches to Victoria split.

This station was visited twice and has been all combined so part 1 duration of the video is: 13:59 - 14:38 and part 2 duration of the video is: 13:41 - 16:20

We’ll be seeing services by Southwestern Railway, Southern, Gatwick Express, London Overground and freight as well.

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Due to some last minute changes in regards to filming this station I had to make a decision considering was meant to spent longer there however the filming session got cut short so I made a decision where I had to revisit this station but didn’t cause any issues.

It’s been quite awhile since I last visited Clapham Junction but I always enjoyed myself filming plus I managed to see some units that was supporting the brand new Great British Railway livery and saw plenty of freight come through which is always nice to see plus some Ex former c2c units that are with Southern, Ex former Great Northern which is a temporary and some Ex Great Western Railway units which is a temporary as well.

Joining me for the 1st part session of the video is CRGtransport please like and subscribe to his channel as he does amazing content.

My next station will be Stratford which is situated on the Great Eastern Mainline been a long while since I last visited there but I’m sure it’ll be worth revisiting and always enjoy myself doing train spotting there so until then thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next video.