Clapham Junction is not actually in Clapham, but is in the center of Battersea.
On the 2nd March 1863, Clapham Junction opened as a joint venture between L&SWR, LB&SCR and the WLER as an interchange station for thier lines.
The station is named because it is at the junction of several rail lines and is made up of many junctions, Falcon Junction, Ludgate Junction, Latchmere SW Junction, Latchmere Main Junction, West London Extension Junction & Junction for Waterloo and Pouparts Junction.
More than two thousand trains pass though the station and at peak times up to two hundred trains an hour.
There are seventeen platforms which handled over twenty million passengers between 2022 and 2023.
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