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Post by rincew1nd on Dec 12, 2017 0:18:41 GMT
Two-part Tuesday!  (click for a larger version) Location A is the main image, Location B is the inset |
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Post by tjw on Dec 12, 2017 8:01:38 GMT
West Croydon ramp to down platform,
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Post by goldenarrow on Dec 12, 2017 9:01:34 GMT
Is Location B Pontoon Dock?
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Post by Colin D on Dec 13, 2017 0:46:42 GMT
West Croydon ramp to down platform, Answer: Location A: West Croydon - ramp from platform 4 to footbridge [Chris M]  (click for a larger version) And a clue for location B:  (click for a larger version) |
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Post by blackhorsesteve on Dec 13, 2017 15:23:45 GMT
London City Airport?
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Post by Deep Level on Dec 13, 2017 15:57:24 GMT
West Silvertown
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Post by Chris M on Dec 13, 2017 17:44:22 GMT
Location B: West Silvertown - view from Greenwich Peninsula [Chris M]  (click for a larger version) |
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Post by brigham on Dec 14, 2017 10:02:18 GMT
Using materials recovered from withdrawn BR Mk2 carriages for the station buildings is a splendid example of re-cycling.
I suppose the original station was destroyed in the Explosion?
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Post by Chris M on Dec 14, 2017 12:46:48 GMT
As far as I am aware, this is the first station in this area. It is approximately on the original route of the North London Railway but there wasn't a (pasengr) station here. With the expansion of the Royal Docks the railway was rerouted and this stub became the freight-only Silvertown Tramway, which had no passenger facilities.
Silvertown, latterly Silvertown and London City Airport, which was some way to the east survived in service until 2009 when the North Woolwich branch was closed and was demolished circa 2012 as part of building Crossrail. The buildings lost in the last decade dated only from the 1970s, the previous 1885 building was presumably damaged in the explosion but I can't find any detail with a brief search.
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Post by hptraveller on Dec 14, 2017 17:50:24 GMT
It looks like there wasn't originally a building on the road-side eastbound platform of the Silvertown station, which when the line was double-track would make sense as that platform would only have been for North Woolwich traffic. Instead the station building was on the westbound platform in the middle of the "V" junction between the Connaught Tunnel route and the Silvertown Tramway - hopefully this link works! goo.gl/images/uKV1bwI think the new (and final) station building on the (by now) single track line opened when the North London Line was diverted from Broad Street in the mid-80s, then had a mild makeover around 1989 for City Airport traffic (which never amounted to very much, given the target demographic of the airport's passengers). |
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