Alfred Bean, railway-engineer and one-time owner of Danson House, furthered the development of Bexleyheath as a London suburb by championing the Bexleyheath Line in the 1880s to support the growth of estates around Danson Park.

Before the coming of the railway, with the opening of the Bexleyheath Line on 1 May 1895, Welling was a village on the main road between London and Kent ( Watling Street ).

Evening and Sundays trains operate to / from instead of Cannon Street, with Bexleyheath Line services extended to and Sidcup Line services extended to.

* Dartford via: North Kent Line ; the Bexleyheath Line and the Dartford Loop Line.

The Bexley Heath Railway ( see below ) had opened what came to be known as the Bexleyheath Line in 1895.

The possibility of opening platforms on this line with direct access to Victoria Station and the Bexleyheath Line to Dartford has often been suggested but is currently low on TfL's priorities.

* the Bexleyheath Line,

* Lewisham, where the Bexleyheath and North Kent lines divide from the South Eastern Main Line and Hayes Line.

The following stations are adjacent stops on the line to Charing Cross and Cannon Street stations in London known locally as the Bexleyheath Line.

In particular, the area between the North Kent Line the Dartford Loop Line became well populated at this time, but the SER was reluctant to build a proposed Bexleyheath Line, including stations at Blackheath, Eltham, Bexleyheath and Slade Green, in spite of public pressure in the 1880s.

Later two more lines were built, the Dartford Loop Line through Sidcup which opened in 1866, and the Bexleyheath Line which opened in 1895.

The DA6 postcode area which is south Bexleyheath has a less homogeneous feel and features Danson House and the Red House.

Bexleyheath has drawn a lot of custom to match the expansion in retail space from residents of towns in the borough, particularly from Erith and Thamesmead which have expanded in size with development along the River Thames.

Bexleyheath has a theatre ( the Edward Alderton ), Cineworld cinema, hotel, reference library, five-a-side football centre, bingo hall and ten-pin bowling alley ( Ten Pin ).

Since the closure of Dartford's major employers: Seagers ' Engineering Works, J & E Hall International, Vickers, the reduction and subsequent closure of Burroughs Wellcome ( now GlaxoSmithKline ), and the redevelopment of nearby Bexleyheath as a shopping town in the 1970s ( and the more recent development of the Bluewater Shopping Centre ), Dartford has lost a significant number of its rising Generation X demographic to more economically viable jobs, towns and cities.

Haye lives in Bexleyheath ; he is married and has a son called Cassius, named after Cassius Clay.

Bexley Heritage Trust, a local heritage charity, has been involved in partnership with English Heritage since 2000 and has completed the interior furnishing and fitting-out of the house prior to reopening by HM The Queen in Spring 2005, and it now manages the building as a publicly accessible venue and visitor attraction ( the Trust is also responsible for Hall Place, east of Bexleyheath ).

Belvedere has always been classed as a satellite garage from an engineering point of view with very little routine maintenance ever taking place there, however limited engineering facilities existed at Belvedere up until its parent garage changing to Bexleyheath.

Two railway stations serve Bexleyheath: Bexleyheath Station and Barnehurst Station, both on the Bexleyheath line.

Star FM was sold to the London Media Company in May 2006, a subdivision of the Sunrise Radio Group, owners of Sunrise Radio, who rebranded the station into Time 106. 6, in line with three other Sunrise-owned stations in Romford, Bexleyheath and Lewisham.

Until 1985 there were two railway stations in Eltham on the Bexleyheath Line.

The station is on the Bexleyheath line, and was one of the original stations opened on 1 May 1895.

A goods yard at the station was closed, along with those at Eltham Well Hall and Bexleyheath stations, on 7 October 1968.

Peak hour frequencies vary, with services from the Bexleyheath & Dartford loop lines also running to & from stations to Gillingham

The nearest stations are at Slade Green and Erith on the Woolwich line and Barnehurst on the Bexleyheath line.

Red House at Bexleyheath in Kent, ( now Southeast London ) so named when the use of red brick without stucco was still unusual in domestic architecture,

The clock-tower at the centre of the modern shopping area, built in 1912, commemorates the coronation of King George V. In the late 1970s the London Borough of Bexley built its headquarters, the Civic Offices, in Bexleyheath.

* Sheila Hancock, famous actress ( and widow of actor John Thaw ) grew up in neighbouring Bexleyheath, and celebrated the reception of her first marriage ( to Alec Ross in 1954 ) at the Embassy Ballrooms, on the site of the recently-demolished Embassy Court.

Welling is also served by a night bus route, the London Buses route N89, which starts at Erith, running via Slade Green, Barnehurst, Bexleyheath, Welling and Lewisham, towards Trafalgar Square.

Among the former are Erith, in the 17th century a port on the Thames, and an industrial town in the later 19th century ; Bexleyheath, created at the same time on the London to Dover road.

Smaller settlements include Welling, like Bexleyheath a staging post on the Dover Road, which was at one time of less importance than the nearby East Wickham ( also an ancient village ), was absorbed in Bexley UDC.

There are exits for Bexleyheath, Black Prince ( at Bexley ), Dartford Heath and other London suburbs.

It lies to the north of Bexley at the foot of the road ( Gravel Hill ) up onto Bexley Heath ( now covered in the modern day town of Bexleyheath ).

Stoate was a junior hospital doctor from 1977 – 81, then a general practitioner in Bexleyheath from 1982, and a GP tutor at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup from 1989.

During the 1860s William Morris famously used a decorated wagon to commute between this station and his new home at Red House, Bexleyheath, occasionally with his eccentric and artistic house guests.

Following service around the world in the British Army, Townsend was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Bexleyheath at the February 1974 election, and held the seat until retiring at the 1997 election.

He is particularly noted as the designer of Red House at Bexleyheath, southeast London in 1859 for William Morris, and — towards the end of his career — the house Standen ( near East Grinstead in West Sussex ).

The seat covers the Bexley and Sidcup areas, it formerly included Welling and Danson Park which moved to Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency at the 2010 election.

He unsuccessfully contested Bexley at the 1970 general election ( when he lost to Edward Heath ) and Bexleyheath at the February 1974 election ( which he lost to Cyril Townsend ).

After their marriage, the couple lived at the Red House in Bexleyheath, Kent.

Falconwood railway station which was opened in 1936, is served by Southeastern Trains on the Bexleyheath Line.

Falconwood railway station is situated in the suburb of Falconwood, London Borough of Bexley, and is served by the Bexleyheath Line: it is from Charing Cross.

* 2tph to London Charing Cross, calling at Bexleyheath, Welling, Falconwood, Eltham, Kidbrooke, Blackheath, Lewisham, London Bridge and Waterloo East

* 2tph to London Victoria, calling at Bexleyheath, Welling, Falconwood, Eltham, Kidbrooke, Blackheath, Lewisham,, and