hello so we have completed all the lost
railways in london
except for the bits i'm about to show
you now there's like five extra places
which didn't warrant a whole video in
themselves but bundled together
could make this extra bonus video so
that's what we're doing it's the bonus
bits
of london's lost railway starting here
in croydon by queen's gardens which is
currently closed and the location of
central croydon station
central croydon station was a curved
branch just after east croydon
on the main line from london to brighton
it opened in 1868
closed three years later in 1871
reopened in 1886 for just another four
years
and then closed in 1890. the site of
where it was is now occupied by croydon
town hall
although there were tracks and part of
the station running through here
what's now queen's gardens where part of
an old wall still remains
unfortunately the gardens are currently
closed for maintenance but a quick peek
through the fence
reveals the original wall in all its
glory so i'm walking on the top of the
wall of the gardens i can't get into
which is quite frustrating there is a
plaque
on the side of the wall fortunately
there's some photos which i have which i
can throw up and that's the only thing
now left that commemorates that
central croydon station was right here
moving swiftly on
and for the next bonus lost railway in
london get yourself over to south
birming station as we go in search of
bricklayer's arms
bricklayer's arms was an alternative
terminus to london bridge station that
opened in 1844
but its role quickly changed to become
that of a large goods yard
it remained active for many years
finally closing in 1981.
you can best see the massive footprint
that the goody yard used to have
if you look on google 3d view as
nowadays the huge area
is a trading estate so if you've ever
walked over this blue footbridge by
south birming station you can see the
bridge abutment is clearly wide enough
for more than just a narrow footpath the
railway used to be there
head west and the path turns into cycle
quiet way number one
you'll find an old bridge though where
the railway used to go under the road
before eventually coming to mandela way
that's the new road that was built
through the trading estate
there's some signage up that still refer
to it as bricklayer's arms to give you a
clue
but really there's nothing to see or is
there
yes there is look at this on the western
side of bricklayer's arms along pages
walk
there are these old buildings that are
clearly railway related
and that is all that's left though for
our next bonus bit we're out into east
london to factory road
to find the old silvertown station that
closed in 2006.
this was part of the north london line
and when the dlr was built through here
the line was closed
and then reused
so i'm at the location of the old silver
town and london city airport station was
once part
of the north london nine trains went
from north village which we'll get to in
a minute and run all the way over
what is now the overground down to
richmond nowadays i'm hoping that a
purple train might come whizzing through
any second now
on test because this whole part of the
line uh has now been reused
for crossrail purposes but down here is
where the old silvertown station used to
be
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and then just two minutes away down at
pier road is where the line used to
terminate and the old
northwood station which ferry over there
front of the old northwood station is
there and then if you peer
through this fence here you can see some
of the old canopy which is uh delightful
what's really incredible is though it's
what you can see from above
uh and that's a turntable area that's
still in there
that's one i think to drop to the google
earth 3d view
our penultimate bonus bit takes us out
to where the great eastern railway once
had a line that came up from milford and
seven kings
and headed north with the first station
being newbie park but this section of
railway closed in 1947
and the underground built new stations
at once did red bridge and gantz hill
and connected up their line with newbie
park thus forming the haynort loop on
the central line
that you know today so to see this
abandoned line today
go to newbury park located on the very
busy a12
so the station is there if you come to
the road bridge the overbridge
over the railway you can then look down
onto the line
see the trains and see where the line
used to go
central line trains come in and go out
of the tunnel here and you can see it's
already starting to curve where it comes
or goes from the west
but the patch of level grass in the
middle is the big clue to where the
railway used to run
walk down glebeland avenue and after a
few minutes you get to wards road
and look it's a bridge
oh yes the bridge the bridge over
nothing except of course here at wards
road which is quite busy actually
it's not ever nothing it's over our
favorite thing here that we've
discovered in this series of uh
london's lost railways it's an allotment
you can see here the bridge the wall
either side if i peer over
the allotment where the old alignment
used to be is down there
keep walking to the south and you get to
benton road and you find another less
impressive bridge
that used to go over the railway as well
and yes
the allotment stretches all the way down
to this point too
and for our final bonus bit it's the
stretch of railway track that used to be
in place between angel road and
edmonton angel road station is in itself
now an abandoned station and is a good
place to start to walk this old small
section of line
and so i've come to the rather noisy
road that is
over here this is the old entrance to
angel road station the old abandoned
platforms to angel road are just over
there
the new meridian water replaced it and
in the distance here you can see a
raised embankment where the railway line
used to be
and then a path that is the path of the
old railway
let's go and walk it this section is
known as angel walk
it's quite new having only recently
opened in february 2021
and it brings you out to this road
crossing here
noisy traffic again sorry about that
this is where the railway used to cross
montague road there's a zebra crossing
here you don't have to go that far back
in time though to find old photos when
there was a level crossing gate
and there was a level crossing here but
the railway now really
is obvious with this totally straight
footpath psychopath coming up
down here so the alignment at this point
is a path with housing on one side
and a cemetery on the other just walking
the path
shopping trolley we're not playing bingo
as we head north west and it's only a
short walk
less than 10 minutes to get to edmonton
and that brings us to edmonton everton
green as it now is but there was in fact
a
second station here alongside edmonton
there was edmonton low level
where this roundabout is which i'm stood
right in the middle of just because it
was a fun place to stand
is maybe where some of the platforms
were certainly a lot of it
came through with that shopping center
edmonton green shopping center behind me
just obliterated uh what was left of the
railway as it came into edmonton but
there were
two stations here that's where that bit
of track and that bit of line used to
run so that wraps up all the extra bonus
bits
that i wanted to cover of lost railways
in london
except there's always an except in doing
the research
for all these bonus bits i also looked
at brentford dock
and i realized that there's enough
happening uh old tracks bits of old
station and stuff
at brentford dock which would warrant a
video
all to itself so after all this there
will actually be one more episode of
london's lots of railways
coming up at some point in the next week
or two where i go and do
red for doc apart from it that's it
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