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Loughborough Junction railway station is in Brixton in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is between Elephant & Castle and Herne Hill stations and is served by First Capital Connect and at peak hours by Southeastern.

History
In the 1860s the London, Chatham and Dover Railway opened its City Branch to central London but by 1916 all stations on it south of the Thames except Loughborough Junction had closed. The line remains in use; since 1990 it has been part of the Thameslink route.

In October 1864 the London Chatham & Dover Railway opened Loughborough Road station on the north-to-west Brixton spur which connects the City Branch to the Inner South London Line near Brixton station. On 1 December 1872 platforms were opened on the main line and also on the north-to-east spur (called the Cambria Road platforms and spur after nearby Cambria road). The enlarged station was renamed Loughborough Junction. The first external link below gives a clear idea of the station site.

The original Loughborough Road platforms closed on 14 March 1916 as a wartime economy measure; many little-used suburban stations closed that year. The platforms never re-opened. The Cambria platforms closed on 12 July 1925 in the rationalisation of services in the Southern Railway suburban electrification.

London, Chatham and Dover Railway
In the 1860s the London, Chatham and Dover Railway opened its City Branch to central London but by 1916 all stations on it south of the Thames except Loughborough Junction had been closed. The line remains in use, since 1990 it has been part of the Thameslink route.

London Overground
The Inner South London Line passes above the south end of the surviving platforms at Loughborough Junction, but has never had platforms there. The Inner South London Line is to be part of the London Overground East London Line as phase 2 of its extension with funding provided in February 2009 in the Thameslink Programme. User groups campaign for future platforms on the line. . Stations are not planned at Brixton or Loughborough Junction, where interchange could have been achieved with respectively the London Underground Victoria line and Thameslink

. Under current proposals, no stations are planned at these locations as the line is on high railway arches, making the cost of any station construction prohibitive.