[1] Despite being in a prime location (on Stockwell Street) the LCDR station failed to attract sufficient passengers, possibly because the rival SER station offered a shorter journey time into central London.

Nothing remains of the railway north-east of the closed Lewisham Road station except for a short section of embankment adjacent to St Johns.

The LCDR's branch line from Nunhead terminated initially at Blackheath Hill (opened 1871) but in 1881 the company deposited a bill to extend it to Greenwich.

Most terminated at Nunhead but some ran into St. Paul's (now called Blackfriars) or Victoria in central London.

In 1913 a P class 0-6-0T with a bogie coach at each end appeared on the branch, and this ran the last passenger train, on 31 December 1916.

In 1926 the London & Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee accepted Southern Railway's view that the branch line should be closed permanently.

A short section of embankment survives between Brookmill Road and the South Eastern main line through St Johns station.