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The South London Line is an horseshoe-shaped Inner London railway from Victoria to London Bridge via Peckham Rye. The line is in Travelcard Zone 2 apart from the termini, in Zone 1. Until December 2012, Southern operated a half-hourly passenger service between London Bridge and Victoria. As part of the project to create an orbital railway around London, most of the South London Line was incorporated into the London Overground network.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clapham Junction to Surrey Quays )〕 The Southern service ceased on 9 December 2012 and westbound services were diverted from Victoria to , while eastbound trains now join the East London Line instead of terminating at London Bridge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/15403.aspx )〕 Services travelling north from East Dulwich continue to use the eastern portion of the line from Peckham Rye to London Bridge. A short section of the line between Wandsworth Road and Clapham High Street was used by Eurostar when trains ran from London . As they have had their third rail shoes removed in 2007, they can no longer use this line. Eurostar trains now use the terminus at St Pancras International via the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. == History == The London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) was authorised to build the line by the ''South London Railway Act'' 1862. Designed and engineered under Frederick Banister,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Federick Dale Banister )〕 it re-used the Wandsworth Road to Brixton section built as part of the LCDR main line. This line was quadrupled and extended to London Bridge. The northern pair (now the Chatham lines), with no stations, was used by the LCDR; the southern (now the Atlantic lines) was used by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR). Several stations were shared by the two companies. The LBSCR scheme, authorised in 1903, pioneered main-line rail electrification in the UK, and the first electric train ran on 1 December 1909. For the following three years, steam trains alternated with electrics, the latter operating a 15-minute interval service from 7.30am to midnight. Passenger numbers had falling dramatically following the opening of electric tramways in South London - by 1.25 million in only six months - but in the first year of electric operation, passengers almost doubled, from 4 million to 7.5 million. The electrification used the overhead system at 6700 V AC, supplied by a power station at Deptford. The line was converted to Southern Railway standard third-rail 660 V DC on 17 June 1928. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「South London Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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