Nine Elms railway station

Nine Elms Railway Station in the London district of Battersea was opened on 21 May 1838 as the London terminus of the London & Southampton Railway which on the same day became the London and South Western Railway. The building in the neo-classical style was designed by Sir William Tite. The station was inconveniently situated for travel to central London, with the necessity to complete the journey by road or by the steam boats connecting the station to points between Vauxhall and London Bridge.[1]

Detail from a map of 1847 showing the station

Nine Elms
The Terminus in 1838
Location	Nine Elms, London Borough of Lambeth England
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	London and Southampton Railway
Pre-grouping	London and South Western Railway
Key dates
21 May 1838	Opened
11 July 1848	Closed to passengers
29 July 1968	Closed to Freight

The station was closed to passengers from 11 July 1848 when the L&SWR opened its metropolitan extension, the Nine Elms to Waterloo Viaduct from Nine Elms to Waterloo (then called Waterloo Bridge Station), and the area adjacent to the station housed the L&SWR's carriage and wagon works until their relocation to Eastleigh in 1909.[2] After closure to passengers the station and surrounding tracks continued in use for goods traffic.

Nine Elms station, when in use as a goods station, adapted from an old photograph dated about 1905.

In 1941 the building was damaged by German bombs and it was demolished in the 1960s. The station closed as a freight depot on 29 July 1968.[3] The site became the flower section of the New Covent Garden Market in 1974.[4]