Twice Abandoned
The southern end of the truncated Millwall Extension Railway viaduct of 1871 at Island Gardens. The single track line ran to the riverside terminus at North Greenwich and Cubitt Town and closed in 1926. After decades of disuse the viaduct was reopened in 1987 as part of the Docklands Light Railway line to Island Gardens.
In the late 1990s the DLR was extended to Lewisham and in order to pass under the Thames the new route diverged from the 1987 route just north of Mudchute station, leaving the 1871 viaduct disused for the second time in its history. The building over the new (underground) Island Gardens station looms over the viaduct.
Note the public toilet block on the left with its concrete frontage and elaborate ventilators.
13th February 2008.
Twice Abandoned
The southern end of the truncated Millwall Extension Railway viaduct of 1871 at Island Gardens. The single track line ran to the riverside terminus at North Greenwich and Cubitt Town and closed in 1926. After decades of disuse the viaduct was reopened in 1987 as part of the Docklands Light Railway line to Island Gardens.
In the late 1990s the DLR was extended to Lewisham and in order to pass under the Thames the new route diverged from the 1987 route just north of Mudchute station, leaving the 1871 viaduct disused for the second time in its history. The building over the new (underground) Island Gardens station looms over the viaduct.
Note the public toilet block on the left with its concrete frontage and elaborate ventilators.
13th February 2008.