Derelict London Transport

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" height=115 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="832" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 1 WIDTH="237"><div> <IMG SRC="2568c5a0.jpg" border=0 width="140" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="258333e0.jpg" border=0 width="307" height="62" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:derelictlondon@yahoo.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:derelictlondon@yahoo.co.uk"><U><IMG SRC="08950190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>   <A HREF="home_page.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home Page"><U><IMG SRC="0aa50190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>  <A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London Guestbook"><U><IMG SRC="08a50190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 WIDTH="248"><div> <IMG SRC="2578c590.jpg" border=0 width="140" height="89" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=365 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> DERELICT PUBLIC TRANSPORT </div> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="1c3eff4e0.jpg" border=0 width="511" height="334" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1c40af5c0.jpg" border=0 width="431" height="348" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>INSIDE DISUSED TUBE TRAIN</B></div> <div> Note the old "Smoking" carriage sign and the Jubilee Line map when it used to terminate at Charing Cross.</div> <bR> <div> An anonymous fan of this site writes:</div> <div> <I>"I’ve worked as a contracting engineer on both the over and underground railway networks for the many years and believe that you’d see the infrastructure and surrounding tundra as an Alladin’s Cave of subject material. More frightening is the knowledge that a great deal of the jaw dropping dilapidation is still operational. Access to the railways are of course restricted to authorised personal holding approved accreditations and even these are governed by levels of requirements for protection staff escortation or the need for operational downtime. Nevertheless, the stations themselves and nearby public highways, footpaths and bridges are often great vantage points for gathering records of the appalling state of what’s costing the fare paying passenger occasionally a lot more than just too much money.</I></div> <div> <I>Keep up the great work. Meanwhile the creaking railway engineering industry battles on to fill the holes whilst main resources are focused on tarting up major stations and creating retail and commercial opportunities."</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1c4274170.jpg" border=0 width="372" height="279" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1c4346970.jpg" border=0 width="326" height="151" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="1c4427980.jpg" border=0 width="295" height="152" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>POSTMANS PARK EC1 </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c460cf80.jpg" border=0 width="268" height="248" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c4832fc0.jpg" border=0 width="306" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c4abeff0.jpg" border=0 width="190" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c4cc4ff0.jpg" border=0 width="196" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>WATERLOO STATION EUROSTAR TERMINAL</B></div> <div> Following the relocation of the main Eurostar Terminal to St Pancras, Waterloo International lays empty.The first Eurostar left Waterloo on November 1994 and the last departed in November 2007. The £130m station, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw, was widely admired.It won the best building prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects for its "power and elegance" in 1994. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c4e41220.jpg" border=0 width="321" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c5085230.jpg" border=0 width="389" height="291" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> Interior of disused tube train</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c52eb3a0.jpg" border=0 width="235" height="314" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>BLACKWALL TUNNEL SOUTHERN APPROACH </B></div> <bR> <div> This traction telephone box has the initials L.P.T.B which stood for London Passenger Transport Board which was formed in 1933 to operate all public transport in Greater London.Where tramways were concerned,'traction' telephones were provided in the cast iron feeder pillars (the pillars had a small telephone cabinet on top, with louvered sides for better hearing of the telephone's ringer). Only a couple few of these pillars have survived as part of the street furniture.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c543e040.jpg" border=0 width="318" height="260" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c5643ff0.jpg" border=0 width="323" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c5844ff0.jpg" border=0 width="324" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>SHOREDITCH EC2 - VILLAGE UNDERGROUND</B></div> <div> Ex Tube trains on remains of old railway bridge. Village Underground is a project to providing affordable workspace for creatives in Shoreditch and transforms 4,000 sq. ft. of Victorian warehousing into a multi-functional art, music and cultural centre. Recycled London Underground train carriages arekitted out using sustainable materials, they will have carbon-neutral heat and power, the interiors are eco designed, and there is a rooftop garden.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="1c5a54ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c5cdc010.jpg" border=0 width="220" height="257" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c5efb5d0.jpg" border=0 width="507" height="349" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c6054ea0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="234" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c6754e90.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="233" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c6410ea0.jpg" border=0 width="272" height="234" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></div> <div> <B>SILVERTOWN - DISUSED LEVEL CROSSING</B></div> <div> The approx site of the largest explosion ever to occur anywhere near London</div> <bR> <div> This section of track known as "The Woolwich Abandoned Line" formed the Eastern Counties Railway extension to N Woolwich but on the building of Victoria Dock in 1850-55 the problems posed by the railway crossing the dock entrance via a swing bridge prompted the building of an avoiding line to the North of the dock. This track was then used as a siding from 1855-c1987.</div> <bR> <div> In 1893, a chemical works was established in Silvertown.The factory produced mainly soda crystals with a smaller plant producing caustic soda. The caustic soda production was halted in 1912 and that part of the plant was closed and went un-used up to the outbreak of The Great War. At this point, because of the great demand for munitions by the government's 'Explosives Supply Department' , pressure was put on the plant back into production, this time purifying TNT... So reluctantly due to the high population density surrounding the area, production began in September 1915. </div> <bR> <div> On Friday the 19th of January, 1917 at 6:52 pm a huge explosion ripped a large area of Silvertown from the face of the Earth. The sound was heard and the shock-wave felt all over London and Essex, it was heard over 100 miles away as far as Southampton and Norwich, the fires that followed were seen 30 miles away from as far as Guildford and Maidstone.</div> <bR> <div> 50 tons of TNT, loaded into nearby railway wagons (on the track pictured above) awaiting transport out of the plant, being set off by a fire in the 'melt-pot' room and a large part of the factory instantly disappeared, many buildings immediately surrounding the location were immediately demolished. The blast started fires for miles around by large, red hot lumps of flying metal blown from the factory building. </div> <div> In all, it was estimated 60 to 70,000 properties received damage. 73 people lost their lives immediately) over 400 were injured - this is a small number considering the size of the blast, due mainly to the time of day it took place and the fact it was the end of the 'working week' - the majority of workers had left the factories and for many locals it was time to be at home with their evening meals.Also, at the outbreak of the fire people had been warned to clear the area. Some people, living close by the factory and knowing what it produced, and, on realising that there was a fire, grabbed their children and fled as fast as they could.</div> <bR> <div> It was initially thought that perhaps a bomb from an air raid had been the cause or even that a German spy had sabotaged the plant, but the real cause of the initial fire has never been fully discovered, although educated guessing suggests that the safety aspects of the old factory was really to blame.</div> <bR> <div> a memorial to the Silvertown Explosion stands near to the site and one at Postman's Park in EC1</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="1c683f950.jpg" border=0 width="319" height="149" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c6a37e90.jpg" border=0 width="311" height="233" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c6c27ec0.jpg" border=0 width="295" height="236" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c6f3eee0.jpg" border=0 width="318" height="238" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>BARNSBURY N1 - YORK ROAD TUBE STATION </B></div> <div> 1906-1932. This was one of the original stations on the Great Northern Piccadilly & Brompton Railway, now the Piccadilly Line.It is typical of the Leslie Green designed stations. Being so close to King's Cross it saw little use, and Sunday services were withdrawn from 1918. The station remained open for weekday traffic until 1932 when it closed permanently.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c7026000.jpg" border=0 width="294" height="256" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c7211020.jpg" border=0 width="273" height="258" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>ISLINGTON EC1 - CITY ROAD TUBE STATION </B></div> <div> 1901-1922. On the line of the original City & South London railway's Euston extension, and was closed when the rest of the line was renovated to allow full size tube trains. Always disappointing in terms of traffic, City Road was never reopened, and the island platform was destroyed when the tunnels were re-bored. City road station is now virtually invisible from both the surface and underground - the only suggestion that a station ever existed is the lift shaft, with a brick surround, now forming a ventilation shaft on City Road itself. I took these pics from the bus so hence the reflections.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c7454ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>KENTISH TOWN NW1 - SOUTH KENTISH TOWN TUBE</B></div> <bR> <div> 1907-1924. Situated on Northern Line between Camden Town & Kentish Town. It was closed during a power station strike on 5th June 1924 and never reopened. Building is now used as a massage/sauna & Cash Converters. A passenger accidentally alighted from a train which stopped at a red light at South Kentish Town soon after closure and although he soon realised his mistake and got back on the train, this inspired a published short story which told of a Mr. Brackett, who was trapped in the dark, deserted station for four days having stepped off a train stopped by a red signal. This story was expanded further by Sir John Betjeman on a BBC broadcast called "South Kentish Town" that he made in the 1950's. </div> <div> Before getting into the idea of Derelict London I used to work in the blue building (The Verge) to the right of this photograph. It never occured to me all those years ago that I should investigate down the cellars of the old pub to see if there were any secret tunnels</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c78a1f10.jpg" border=0 width="417" height="241" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c7740f00.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="240" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>SHEPHERDS BUSH - WOOD LANE TUBE</B></div> <bR> <div> 1908-1947. Opening on 14/5/08 to coincide with the opening of the Franco-British exhibition in White City.Closed in 1947 and it has only just been demolished- the facade has been dismantled and some of it is to be re-erected at London Transport's Depot museum at Acton Town. This location was used in 1964 for Dr Who episode "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c7a93c40.jpg" border=0 width="147" height="196" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c7c04c30.jpg" border=0 width="260" height="195" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c7e08c60.jpg" border=0 width="264" height="198" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c8008c60.jpg" border=0 width="264" height="198" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> These pics of inside Wood Lane tube station were taken for Derelict London by tube driver Mick Hansford in Jan 2005</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c8200220.jpg" border=0 width="256" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c8454220.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c8654220.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>THE STRAND WC2 - STRAND TUBE (renamed Aldwych)</B></div> <div> Views of both entrances and the Aldwych sign</div> <bR> <div> 1907-1994. The Strand Tube Station was the terminus of a short branch off the Piccadilly Line (Aldwych Branch Line). It was then renamed the Aldwych to avoid confusion with the Northern Line’s Strand station. The original name can still be seen on the tiling.</div> <bR> <div> During the Second World War, the branch was closed and the station used as a public air raid shelter, with the tunnels being employed to store the Elgin Marbles and other precious artefacts from the British Museum. Service resumed in 1946, but ended permanently in 1994 after the cost of a lift replacement was deemed uneconomic for the 600 or so passengers who passed through every day.</div> <bR> <div> Because the station is at the end of the line, it has proved an ideal venue for film crews and it can be glimpsed in films as diverse as Battle of Britain, Superman IV, The Krays, An American Werewolf in London and Patriot Games. It has also represented ‘Sun Hill’ tube station in television’s The Bill and appeared in Take It or Leave It (the film that chronicles the career of pop group Madness). The tunnel was used in Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’ pop video. Legend has it that people who are employed to clean the stations and tunnels are scared of a mysterious figure, who roams the station at night. Legend is that the ghost that haunts the station is that of an actress, who did not manage to fulfil her dreams - the station stood on the former plot of the strand theatre.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c88e7ad0.jpg" border=0 width="231" height="173" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c8ae7ad0.jpg" border=0 width="231" height="173" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c8ce6ad0.jpg" border=0 width="230" height="173" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c8ee9af0.jpg" border=0 width="233" height="175" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c90e0af0.jpg" border=0 width="224" height="175" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c92ebb00.jpg" border=0 width="235" height="176" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c94edb20.jpg" border=0 width="237" height="178" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c96e5b40.jpg" border=0 width="229" height="180" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> The above pics of the inside of Aldwych tube station were taken by Brian Mcdonnell:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c98d3ec0.jpg" border=0 width="467" height="236" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1c9a3ded0.jpg" border=0 width="317" height="237" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>ST JOHNS WOOD NW8 - MARLBOROUGH ROAD TUBE STATION </B></div> <bR> <div> 1868-1939 (Metropolitan Line). It had been a little-used station apart from some peak days during cricket season due to its proximity to Lord's Cricket Ground. The street that Marlborough Road station was named after has been renamed Marlborough Place.</div> <div> The remains of the platforms and an outside shot of the station building and booking hall (then an Aberdeen Angus Steak House) were included in a scene from Metro-land, a 1973 BBC documentary presented by Sir John Betjeman. The building survives today and remains in use as a Chinese restaurant.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c9c54ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>EUSTON - EUSTON TUBE STATION (Old Entrance)</B></div> <bR> <div> 1907-1914 Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway. This original building still stands to the side of the modern station</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1c9e04220.jpg" border=0 width="260" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>MAYFAIR W1 - DOWN STREET TUBE STATION</B></div> <bR> <div> Quite a few disused underground stations are still in existence. This one was opened on what is now the Piccadilly Line in 1907 and it closed in 1932. It was never very busy. The well-heeled local residents tended not to use the tube, and the area was, in any case, already served by other nearby underground stations.</div> <div> By 1939 both platforms had largely been bricked up, a concrete cap had been fitted over the shaft, and filters and steel doors had been installed to prevent any gas contamination. The station was therefore an obvious place for Winston Churchill and his wartime Cabinet to use as a deep-level shelter until the Cabinet War Rooms in Whitehall were completed. It then served as the wartime headquarters of the Railway Executive Committee. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1ca039580.jpg" border=0 width="313" height="344" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>HYDE PARK - HYDE PARK TUBE STATION BUILDING </B></div> <bR> <div> The original, Leslie Green-designed station building still remains to the south of the road junction, notable by its ox-blood coloured tiles; it is currently used as a pizza restaurant. The building was taken out of use in the early 1930s when the station was provided with escalators in place of lifts although an emergency stairway provides a connection to the platforms. The lift shafts are now used to provide ventilation. This non-operational part of the station is said to be chillingly haunted by the sound of girls crying.</div> <div> Hyde Park Corner station is still operational but is one of the few stations which have no associated buildings above ground, the station being fully underground. The current entrance to the station is accessed from within the pedestrian underpass system around the Hyde Park Corner junction. The old station building is now a pizza restaurant</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1ca241f00.jpg" border=0 width="321" height="240" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1ca6faf00.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="240" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1ca55df00.jpg" border=0 width="349" height="240" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>HOLBORN - KINGSWAY TRAM TUNNEL</B></div> <bR> <div> 1906-1952. This tram underpass originally connected a subterranean station at Holborn, and ran the length of Kingsway via a station at Aldwych before rising to the surface under Waterloo Bridge.</div> <bR> <div> The original tunnel was built to carry the single deck cars then in use, but in 1930 the tunnel was closed for a period to allow alterations to be made to enable double-deck cars to be used. A new entrance was built at the northern end while south of High Holborn, the level of the track was lowered to give the necessary clearance. Both stations were rebuilt at the same time and finished in marble and stone with electric lighting.</div> <bR> <div> The trams picked up their electricity supply through a conduit laid between the running rails. When trams were withdrawn in London, the subway remained unused though In 1953, London Transport used the subway to store 120 withdrawn buses and coaches in case they were needed for the Coronation.The southern section was rebuilt in the 1960's as an underpass for cars between Waterloo Bridge and the Aldwych. During the conversion Aldwych station was destroyed but Holborn tram station remains intact in an unused portion of the tunnel. Various films have been shot in the tunnel including 1998's The Avengers starring Uma Thurman & Sean Connery.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="1ca8b7f70.jpg" border=0 width="183" height="247" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1caa54f50.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="245" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cacadf60.jpg" border=0 width="173" height="246" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> (Above left) the old staircase to street level, (Middle) print of old streetscene & (Right) Original tram now preserved in storage</div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1caefabb0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="187" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cb0eebb0.jpg" border=0 width="238" height="187" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cb2e9bb0.jpg" border=0 width="233" height="187" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cb4fabb0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="187" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cb6fabb0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="187" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cb8ecbb0.jpg" border=0 width="236" height="187" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cbaefbb0.jpg" border=0 width="239" height="187" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cbce7bb0.jpg" border=0 width="231" height="187" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> A L.T. spokesman recently said that contrary to rumours "the Kingsway tram tunnel will never be reopened for trams - converting the tramstop at Holborn for disabled use would be too costly and the consensus that subterranean use defeats the object of a tram system"</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cc054fa0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cc217fc0.jpg" border=0 width="279" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cc44ffb0.jpg" border=0 width="335" height="251" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>METROPOLITAN RAILWAY TRAILER COACH</B></div> <div> This trailer car built in 1904 is the only survivor from the first batch of electric tube trains. It was acquired from the army in Shoeburyness and transferred to the Woolwich Museum where it was set ablaze by vandals.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cc640ff0.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cc825000.jpg" border=0 width="293" height="256" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cca45010.jpg" border=0 width="325" height="257" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>WATERLOO AND CITY LINE TRAIN</B></div> <div> The Waterloo & City line - known as "the drain" to its users - is a short underground railway line with only two stations, Waterloo and Bank.It exists almost exclusively to serve commuters between Waterloo mainline station and the City of London, and does not operate late in the evening or on Sundays</div> <bR> <div> The above train is rolling stock from 1940 which replaced wooden carriages. The 1940 stock was eventually replaced in 1992 & taken out of Waterloo station via cranes and transported on the back of lorries to Glasgow to be scrapped. This one survived intact.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1ccb42f80.jpg" border=0 width="322" height="248" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1ccdd8f90.jpg" border=0 width="216" height="249" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>OLD TUBE TICKET MACHINES</B></div> <bR> <div> Anyone remember these old ticket machines?</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1ccf96fe0.jpg" border=0 width="406" height="254" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cd1fd000.jpg" border=0 width="253" height="256" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cd527020.jpg" border=0 width="295" height="258" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>HIGHBURY TUBE STATION (old Northern and City Line entrance)</B></div> <bR> <div> The NCL ran from Moorgate to Finsbury Park. Closed before the Victoria Line station (over the road) was opened. The pictures show front & back entrances and inside the old tube station building taken with a poor camera.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cd752070.jpg" border=0 width="338" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>FOREST GATE BUS DEPOT</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cd902220.jpg" border=0 width="258" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cdbfc220.jpg" border=0 width="252" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>PLAISTOW STATION</B></div> <bR> <div> (1858 - 1962) This part of the station closed when the Fenchurch Street line to Southend was electified.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cddda220.jpg" border=0 width="218" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cdf81210.jpg" border=0 width="385" height="289" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1ce154220.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>SILVERTOWN</B> (left) and <B>NORTH WOOLWICH STATIONS</B> (middle) </div> <bR> <div> These stations closed on 9 December 2006 as part of the closure of the Stratford to North Woolwich section of theSilverlink North London line. The Docklands Light Railway extension to King George V replicates much of this section of line.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1ce3da220.jpg" border=0 width="218" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1ce581210.jpg" border=0 width="385" height="289" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1ce754220.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>FELTHAM TW13 - RAIL FREIGHT MARSHALLING YARD</B></div> <bR> <div> This rail yard was built in 1918 by German prisoners-of-war. With its 32 miles of sidings it was the second largest yard in the country, complete with repair sheds for wagons and locomotives. However, rail traffic began to decline in 1960s, and the yard eventually closed in 1969. It was dismantled over the following decade.</div> <div> Today, it is an overgrown wilderness. There is little evidence that there was a yard here, apart from one graffiti-covered concrete building. There are a few abandoned cars, burnt out by joyriders.</div> <div> Excavations on the site have revealed remains of Iron Age pottery.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1ce97eff0.jpg" border=0 width="382" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>SYDENHAM SE21 - SYDENHAM HILL WOOD TUNNEL</B></div> <bR> <div> The sealed-up tunnel is on what was the Nunhead to Crystal Palace branch of the London Chatham & Dover Railway, opened in 1865 and closed in 1954. It is now used as a roost for bats.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="24f99c1f0.jpg" border=0 width="412" height="287" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="24a27f1f0.jpg" border=0 width="383" height="287" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> This is a shot of the opposite end. The house is the old Sydenham Station building.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1ceb54ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></div> <div> <B>BERMONDSEY SE1 - SPA ROAD RAILWAY STATION</B></div> <bR> <div> Spa Road station was the terminus of London’s first railway, the London and Greenwich Railway, and, in fact, there are actually two disused Spa Road stations. The first, opened in 1836, was just down the road. The second one, shown here, replaced it in 1867 and was renamed Spa Road and Bermondsey in 1877. It was closed during the First World War due to staff shortages, and, because it had never attracted many passengers, was then never reopened. </div> <bR> <div> Remains of the old platforms can still be seen from trains passing between Deptford and London Bridge. In 1999 a train from Dover to London Charing Cross collided with a train from Brighton to Bedford at Spa Road, causing both to derail. Four people were injured, and a number of passengers had to be evacuated through the old station.</div> <bR> <div> The arch shown here displays the signage of the South East & Chatham Railway; some of the bricked-up ticket windows are also visible.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cee54ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>SHADWELL - OLD STATION BUILDING</B></div> <bR> <div> This original station building was one of the oldest on the network, and was built over a spring. First opened by the East London Railway in 1876, It was renamed Shadwell & St. George-in-the-East in 1900 but reverted to its original name in 1918. In 1983, a new ticket hall was built on Cable Street, replacing this original station building.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cf054ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>SHOREDITCH STATION</B></div> <bR> <div> Recently closed due to works on the East London Line extension</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cf260fb0.jpg" border=0 width="352" height="251" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>CLAPHAM JUNCTION</B></div> <bR> <div> Decaying signal box</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cf454ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>LIMEHOUSE</B></div> <bR> <div> Partial remaining evidence of an old station entrance</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cf654ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cf854ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>EAST HAM STATION</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1cfa32e50.jpg" border=0 width="306" height="229" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cfc44e80.jpg" border=0 width="324" height="232" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cfe39ea0.jpg" border=0 width="313" height="234" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>ACTON</B></div> <bR> <div> Disused bus shelter and signs stored at the LT Depot in Acton</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d0044f30.jpg" border=0 width="324" height="243" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d0247f50.jpg" border=0 width="327" height="245" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d043bf50.jpg" border=0 width="315" height="245" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>ILFORD</B></div> <bR> <div> Disused railway training school</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d0654090.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="265" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>WATERLOO</B></div> <bR> <div> Northern Line platform - was a stylish welcome to London for the French arriving on Eurostar pre Nov 07</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d0811220.jpg" border=0 width="273" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d0a1a220.jpg" border=0 width="282" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d0d1a220.jpg" border=0 width="282" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d11961c0.jpg" border=0 width="406" height="284" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d135e1b0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="283" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>BERMONDSEY - DECAYING RAILWAY ARCHES</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d1554ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>HAMPTON COURT - RAILWAY STATION </B></div> <bR> <div> This is still a functional railway station but most of the building looks derelict. Not a great advert for tourism considering the amount of people who come from all around the world to visit Hampton Court Palace which is virtually next door.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d1704220.jpg" border=0 width="260" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>WATERLOO - NECROPOLIS RAILWAY STATION</B></div> <bR> <div> An unusual train service operated from Waterloo to Brookwood Cemetery, near Woking. It conveyed the deceased and their accompanying mourners to their final resting place, the Brookwood Necropolis, which at one time was the largest cemetery in the world. The Necropolis was originally promoted as concerns about public health in the nation's capital and elsewhere had increased, London having suffered its first cholera epidemic in the mid-nineteenth century.The railway had many unusual features. In the cemetery there were two stations, one for the Anglican section and another for the Nonconformist section. The station was bombed in April 1941and suffered severe damage and was never rebuilt after the Second World War although the entrance pictured above still survives.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d1942d60.jpg" border=0 width="322" height="214" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d1b21d90.jpg" border=0 width="289" height="217" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d1d3cda0.jpg" border=0 width="316" height="218" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>LEA BRIDGE ROAD STATION</B></div> <bR> <div> Lea Bridge is a closed railway station on the line between Stratford and Tottenham Hale stations. This was handy for Orient's football stadium which used to be situated around the corner but since located to Brisbane Rd in Leyton.</div> <div> The station was opened in1840 & was closed by British Rail on 8 July 1985. Prior to its closure the station had been neglected for some years and none of the original station buildings remained and the simple open-sided shelter present in 1985 on the road bridge over the tracks has also been demolished.</div> <div> In December 2005 a new passenger service between Stratford and Stansted Airport reintroduced direct passenger services between Stratford and Tottenham Hale passing through the closed Lea Bridge station and plans are being considered to rebuild and reopen the station as part of wider plans for the redevelopment of the Stratford and Lower Lea Valley area.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d1fd3220.jpg" border=0 width="211" height="290" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d215bae0.jpg" border=0 width="347" height="174" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>OLD LONDON TRANSPORT SIGNS</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d2354fd0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="253" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d27d6000.jpg" border=0 width="214" height="256" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d2654ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>ACTON - DISUSED VINTAGE TUBE MAINTENANCE ROLLING STOCK</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>"Follow the old railway line from Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>and see deer, bats, foxes and a variety of birds and butterflies."</B></I></div> <div> www.all4kidsuk.com</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="1d2946f40.jpg" border=0 width="326" height="244" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d2b46f40.jpg" border=0 width="326" height="244" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d2d36f40.jpg" border=0 width="310" height="244" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> (above left & middle) Leaving Finsbury Pk heading towards Stroud Green </div> <div> (above right)<B> STROUD GREEN STATION </B>stood just the other side of this bridge. It opened in 1881 and was demolished in 1966. </div> <bR> <div> <B>PARKLAND WALK - DISUSED RAILWAY LINE</B></div> <bR> <div> This railway ran from Finsbury Park via Stroud Green and Crouch End to Highgate, with a branch from Highgate via Cranley Gardens and Muswell Hill to Alexandra Palace. In its heyday in the 1870's the line carried 60,000 passengers on one Whit Monday</div> <bR> <div> The trackbed has been converted into the PARKLAND WALK that alternates between running along the top of an embankment and through deep wooded cuttings of the original railway. It is London's longest local nature reserve.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="1d2f54ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> (Above) A fascinating piece of fencing made up of old doors.</div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="1d3142f10.jpg" border=0 width="322" height="241" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d3344f30.jpg" border=0 width="324" height="243" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d353df60.jpg" border=0 width="317" height="246" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="1d3740f00.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="240" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d3943f20.jpg" border=0 width="323" height="242" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d3b34f40.jpg" border=0 width="308" height="244" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> (Above) Old bridges, graffiti and dilapidated signs between Stroud Green & Crouch End</div> <bR> <div> <I>"Dramatic increases in anti-social behaviour, including drinking, drug taking and sexual activity have contributed to a public perception </I></div> <div> <I>that the parkland walk is a no go area, according to a council report"</I></div> <div> <B>Hampstead & Highgate Express</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="1d3d54ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d3f54ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> (Above) Approaching Crouch End Station. This a sculpture of a spriggan by Marilyn Collins. This sculpture was the inspiration for Stephen King's short story "Crouch End", where a stylised rendition of the  sculpture is described.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1d4146f70.jpg" border=0 width="326" height="247" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d4338f60.jpg" border=0 width="312" height="246" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d453af60.jpg" border=0 width="314" height="246" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> (Above) The platforms of<B> CROUCH END STATION </B>(opened 1867) remain - the platforms were lowered to accommodate proposed tube trains.The right hand pic is believed to be the remains of a station building. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><IMG SRC="1d4729f30.jpg" border=0 width="297" height="243" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d493df70.jpg" border=0 width="317" height="247" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d4b3cf90.jpg" border=0 width="316" height="249" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> (Above) Tunnels leading to Highgate Station</div> <bR> <div> The footpath then leaves the route of the railway line - just past Highgate the line split into two branches,one to Alexandra Palace and the other to High Barnet and Edgware (mostly part of the London Underground Northern Line now). The Alexandra Palace branch curved around the edge of Highgate Woods, where it is fenced off and overgrown. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="1d4d54ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d4f34ff0.jpg" border=0 width="308" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d5130e40.jpg" border=0 width="304" height="228" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1d533aff0.jpg" border=0 width="314" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d5532ff0.jpg" border=0 width="306" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d574aff0.jpg" border=0 width="330" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="1d594df90.jpg" border=0 width="333" height="249" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d5b34f80.jpg" border=0 width="308" height="248" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d5d39f80.jpg" border=0 width="313" height="248" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> (Above)<B> HIGHGATE (overground) STATION</B> is not part of the Parkland Walk and is inaccessible to the public! Here's some rare pics as Imanaged to get in while surveyors were doing some work. </div> <bR> <div> Highgate High Level was in passenger use until 5th July 1954, and the lines through it were open for empty stock movements until September 1970.Originally opened in 1867, rebuilt in 1900 and again in 1940 to enable interchange between this overground station and the Northern Line underground station underneath (which still exists)</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="1d5f6eff0.jpg" border=0 width="366" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d6154ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> (Above Tunnel leaving Highgate Station)</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1d6354ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d6554ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Picking up the path again at Cranleigh Gardens. (Above left) Fence made out of old railway sleepers just past the site of <B>CRANLEY GARDENS STATION)</B> </div> <bR> <div> Incidently, the house 23 Cranley Gardens was the home of Denis Nilsen who admitted to at least 15 murders. The civil servant was arrested in London in 1983 after human remains were found in a blocked drain. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at his trial. </div> <div> <I><IMG SRC="1d673ced0.jpg" border=0 width="316" height="237" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d6a3ded0.jpg" border=0 width="317" height="237" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d6c41f00.jpg" border=0 width="321" height="240" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><IMG SRC="1d6e54ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d7054ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> (Above) Bridges & viaduct between Cranley Gardens and Muswell Hill.</div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="1d7254ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> (Above) New foot-tunnel towards end of walk approaching Alexandra Palace</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1d7454ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1d7654ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Another non descript bridge approaching Alexandra Palace station but worth noting for its icicles! </div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="1d7854ff0.jpg" border=0 width="340" height="255" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> The old Alexandra Palace Station building dwarfed by the Palace itself. The station building is now a community centre.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>"And only footsetps in a lane,</I></div> <div> <I>and birdsong broke the silence sound</I></div> <div> <I>and chuffs of the Great Northern train</I></div> <div> <I>for Alexandra Palace bound"</I></div> <div> <I>Diary of a Nobody" </I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>John Betjeman</B></I></div> <bR> <div> The Muswell Hill Metro Group are campaigning for the reopening of the railway line between Finsbury Park and Muswell Hill, with a possible extension to Alexander Palace, proposing a tram or light rail system. MUSWELL HILL METRO GROUP</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>North London Line</U></B></div> <bR> <div> Much of the course of this old line will now form part of the East london Line extension</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The Future: E London Line extension </B></div> <div> This northern extension of this project will join the current East London Line just south of the existing Shoreditch Station. It will then head up onto a new viaduct on the northern part of the Bishopsgate Goods Yard, cross Shoreditch High Street and head north to Dalston Junction using the disused Kingsland viaduct. The route that runs parallel to the A10 that formerly supported the North London Line to Broad Street will then turn west using a western Curve at Dalston Junction to run parallel to the North London Line. </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="de215250.jpg" border=0 width="533" height="293" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="de3075e0.jpg" border=0 width="263" height="350" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="de41e5e0.jpg" border=0 width="286" height="350" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1d7b73170.jpg" border=0 width="371" height="279" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   <IMG SRC="1d7920170.jpg" border=0 width="288" height="279" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="1d7abf180.jpg" border=0 width="191" height="280" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Bishopsgate Goodyard Station.</B></div> <div> Eastern Counties Railways terminus built in 1840 but after Liverpool St opened the station was rebuilt as a goods depot. Currently being demolished to make way for E</div> <div> London line extension. English Heritage lost a court case to save demolishing the site. Prince Charles described the arches as an "astonishing hidden treasure"   </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="de8630a0.jpg" border=0 width="355" height="266" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>The old Shoreditch Station in Old Street.</B></div> <div> The "new one" was situated on Brick Lane but that closed too in late 2007</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="de95e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Kingsland Viaduct (Hoxton)</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="dea75180.jpg" border=0 width="373" height="280" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The gap here is where the bridge used to be crossing</div> <div> above Middleton Rd, Haggerston. It was demolished </div> <div> July 2004 as were several others in the area</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="deb791b0.jpg" border=0 width="377" height="283" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> looking from Haggerston towards Dalston </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="dede2410.jpg" border=0 width="226" height="321" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="defab410.jpg" border=0 width="427" height="321" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Course of N London Line - Haggerston</B></div> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="df088d00.jpg" border=0 width="392" height="208" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="df217d20.jpg" border=0 width="279" height="210" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="df432e60.jpg" border=0 width="306" height="230" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="df633e70.jpg" border=0 width="307" height="231" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <B>Dalston Junction Station closed 1981</B></div> <bR> <div> This station was used in the 1959 film "Look Back in Anger" staring <B>Richard Burton</B>. A launch party for the film was held in the station buffet.</div> <bR> <div> Terry West writes to Derelict London:</div> <div> <I>"My grandad worked for 45 years as a ganger and gang-foreman for the North London Railway and he often  took me with him on the line. Our nearest station was Dalston Junction (one of your pictures) every so often  he would bring home a railway sleeper for fire wood. He would get it to Dalston on the train, catch a 22 bus to</I></div> <div> <I>the "Black house" Pub in Chatsworth Road, the end of the line, then carry it on his shoulder about three quarters of a mile to the bottom of Rushmore Road where we lived. He was not a big man but slim and wiry, his face and arms were like old leather, but the rest of his body was white and smooth, I don't think he had  taken his shirt off in public for the whole of his life. "</I></div> <bR> <div> Robert Kingham writes:</div> <div> <I>" I too have walked the length of this, all the way down to Broadgate, where emerging in the City feels somewhat like stumbling upon a mystical hidden portal. The cheese factory where I lived, with a heavy metal drummer friend, from 1994-1995, is visible in the photo 'looking from Haggerston towards Dalston' - the only pitched-roof building on the derelict left. From here we explored the line until the security  boarding was repaired. I only walked the line once: gratefully sober, as the bridges across roads and the canal were even then little more than steelwork. Paul, I think, did it three times. One night after a few terrible beers in the 'Nice Little Earner' on Kingsland Road - a terrible, terrible </I></div> <div> <I>pub - Paul and another friend, Simon, attempted the walk. I decided to go home; as I watched them from the cheese factory, shinning up the wall, I distinctly got the impression that there were three people climbing over the wall and disappearing down the line to Shoreditch. In the morning I was assured that there had only been the two of them. </I></div> <div> <I>It's likely that this was an effect of the malevolent atmosphere that surrounds the line; certainly, </I><I><B>walking through some of the disused stations, we got the impression that we had disturbed some sort of Balrog who was inevitably about to drag us deep, deep under Dalston. </B></I><I>It's nostalgically sad (though not from a health and safety point of view) that these bridges of Khazad-dum have now come down, apart from the glumly majestic one diagonally spanning the south end of Kingsland Road. I look forward to travelling on the new East London extension. I'll be the one with the two kids bored shitless by their father's  endless reminiscences."</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="242c92eb0.jpg" border=0 width="402" height="235" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="242d38ea0.jpg" border=0 width="312" height="234" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="242eb3ec0.jpg" border=0 width="179" height="236" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Front of old Airport Terminal Building                                                     The Radio Room                                                 Control Tower</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="242f40f10.jpg" border=0 width="320" height="241" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="243041f10.jpg" border=0 width="321" height="241" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2431c8f10.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="241" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  Foyer and Check In area. The old check in desks are still present.</div> <bR> <div> <B>CROYDON AIRPORT</B></div> <bR> <div> Croydon Airport opened in 1920 for scheduled passenger flights by British and foreign airlines. The original buildings were demolished due to an unsatisfactory layout and rebuilt in 1928 and then remained the UK's main civil airport until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 when it was taken over as RAF Croydon. By the time it reverted to civil use in 1946 it was decided that Heathrow should become London's major airport. Croydon Airport was finally closed in 1959. Much of the old terminal buidling is now used as offices and function facilities and the control tower</div> <div> houses a small museum.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="242bfa9d0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="157" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Amy Johnson was carrying the bag above when she made her last flight in 1941.It was found in the Thames Estuary & now exhibited in the museum</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="fd4bb230.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> And finally<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="2779dbb10.jpg" border=0 width="219" height="177" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="2778f0530.jpg" border=0 width="240" height="83" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>London Transport Original Signs</B></div> <bR> <div> Heres a fascinating website for quite reasonably priced old LT sign, posters, etc.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> www.londontransportoriginalsigns.co.uk</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="793" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 65 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London Book"><U><IMG SRC="09da3a60.jpg" border=0 width="163" height="166" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="393"><div> <A HREF="mailto:derelictlondon@yahoo.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:derelictlondon@yahoo.co.uk"><U><IMG SRC="08950190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>     <A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London Guestbook"><U><IMG SRC="08a50190.png" border=0 width="80" height="25" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> www.derelictlondon.com</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id73.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London Book"><U><IMG SRC="09da3a60.jpg" border=0 width="163" height="166" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B>Want present day pics of your old haunts? </B></div> <div> <B>Researching your family tree and need location pics? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Pictures taken to order - low cost - any job considered</B></div> <div> <B> (not just derelicts!). </B></div> <div> <B>Much cheaper than professional photographers</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Contact: Paul at derelictlondon.com</B></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>