Battersea Park is a station next to... you guessed it, Battersea Park! It is mainly served by Southern services, however it gets 16 London Overground services a week (one each weekday in each direction at 22:48 and 23:03, one northbound at 06:33 each weekday as well as one northbound at 07:26 on Sundays). According to the London Overground timetable for this branch (which also has the only official current map I can find with the station on), a train terminates here each day, coming in from Dalston Junction. This train then leaves in the opposite direction 15 minutes later. I don't know why this service happens, and why it doesn't go all the way to Highbury & Islington in some services, but according to Wikipedia, "since December 2012, a skeleton London Overground service has run to and from Battersea Park (instead of Clapham Junction) at the extreme ends of the day to retain a "parliamentary service" between Battersea Park and Wandsworth Road. The station is also used by London Overground when the route into Clapham Junction is closed by engineering work." In case you didn't know, "parliamentary" is just a posh word for ghost train. A list of examples is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_train.
The timetable is:
| Monday-Friday Sunday | 06:33 23:03 07:26 | 22:04 N/A |
Yes! After a bit of playing around, I've been able to fix some problems I had with this article due to the Wikipedia quotation.
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