Saxicola Torquata
Millwall Junction 1963
This photograph was taken in May 1963 lookng west from the footbridge which ran from Harrow Lane to the West India docks and which provided the only entrance to the station.
The two tracks in the foreground (one occupied by the train) were part of the original London and Blackwall Railway which opened in 1840.
In 1871 the Great Eastern Railway (which had by then absorbed the L&B) constructed a branch fron their line from Poplar to a terminus at the tip of the Millwall peninsula. They called this terminus North Greenwich. The branch, and associated stations, opened on 18 December 1871.
At the junction with the new branch, a station was constructed called Millwall Junction. The platform for the new branch curves away to the left in the view above
On 4 May 1926, at the time of the General Strike, the whole of the old L&B line east of Stepney was closed to passengers.
At the time of this photograph the area to the left of the main tracks is part of the Port of London Authority's railway behind which are the warehouses and cranes of the West India Docks. To the right are Harrow Lane sidings.
If one could stand in the same spot today, to the left is the dual-carriageway Aspen Way. Ahead, beyond the signal-box, is a new DLR Poplar station where a new branch to Canary Wharf and Lewisham turns off to the left. In the immediate foregound the DLR has a junction where their lines for Stratford and Woolwich diverge. On the right is the DLR Poplar depôt.
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Millwall Junction 1963
This photograph was taken in May 1963 lookng west from the footbridge which ran from Harrow Lane to the West India docks and which provided the only entrance to the station.
The two tracks in the foreground (one occupied by the train) were part of the original London and Blackwall Railway which opened in 1840.
In 1871 the Great Eastern Railway (which had by then absorbed the L&B) constructed a branch fron their line from Poplar to a terminus at the tip of the Millwall peninsula. They called this terminus North Greenwich. The branch, and associated stations, opened on 18 December 1871.
At the junction with the new branch, a station was constructed called Millwall Junction. The platform for the new branch curves away to the left in the view above
On 4 May 1926, at the time of the General Strike, the whole of the old L&B line east of Stepney was closed to passengers.
At the time of this photograph the area to the left of the main tracks is part of the Port of London Authority's railway behind which are the warehouses and cranes of the West India Docks. To the right are Harrow Lane sidings.
If one could stand in the same spot today, to the left is the dual-carriageway Aspen Way. Ahead, beyond the signal-box, is a new DLR Poplar station where a new branch to Canary Wharf and Lewisham turns off to the left. In the immediate foregound the DLR has a junction where their lines for Stratford and Woolwich diverge. On the right is the DLR Poplar depôt.
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