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Visualisation of new Overground Station, posted outside the building works. Apologies for poor quality...
A beautiful day today, combined with a cranky little girl prompted a day of wandering around Wapping.
Here's a view of the place, from across the river.
At the Wapping Station end, looking back towards Rotherhithe.
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The London Overground service between Highbury & Islington and New Cross/New Cross Gate was suspended over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend (24-26 May 2014) to adapt the line to take 5-car trains. The London Transport Museum took advantage of the closure to offer escorted walks through the tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping Stations.
The Tunnel was originally built as a pedestrian tunnel and opened in 1843; it was the only project on which Marc Isambard Brunel and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, worked together. It was sold for railway use in 1869, the first trains running four years later.
The tunnel was extensively renovated during the 1990s, during which most of it was restored to its original appearance.
Penang Street, Wapping. Designed by Wilson, Son & Aldwinkle and completed in 1886. Now converted to flats.
This portal shot was taken in what was once Wapping Goods yard. It's 77 yards long, only a short tunnel but it joins Wapping Short tunnel in a cutting on Jamica street.
This cutting is the western end of the 1mile 351yard Wapping Tunnel which connected Edge Hill with Park Land Goods. Wapping Short is the 112yard tunnel which comes out today on King Dock Street
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Wapping Station.
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The London Overground service between Highbury & Islington and New Cross/New Cross Gate was suspended over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend (24-26 May 2014) to adapt the line to take 5-car trains. The London Transport Museum took advantage of the closure to offer escorted walks through the tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping Stations.
The Tunnel was originally built as a pedestrian tunnel and opened in 1843; it was the only project on which Marc Isambard Brunel and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, worked together. It was sold for railway use in 1869, the first trains running four years later.
The tunnel was extensively renovated during the 1990s, during which most of it was restored to its original appearance.
Wapping Project sold for £3.2m www.whatsinwapping.co.uk/wapping-project-sold-for-3-2-mil...
© Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/12/2013. London, UK. People eat and drink inside the Wapping Project restaurant (formerly the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station). The Wapping Project restaurant closes today and the art space will close at the end of 2013. Photo credit : Vickie Flores/LNP
The Tobacco Dock was built in 1811-13 by John Rennie and extended in 1820s to link the London Dock with the Eastern Dock. It has now been infilled. The replica ships are associated with the conversion of the New Tobacco Warehouse into a shopping centre (now closed)
You would think that developers would understand the attraction of the cross-street gantries that existed when the wharves of Wapping were the storerooms of Empire, but apparently not. These, at 73 Wapping High Street, are the only survivors, even though there were many more elsewhere in Wapping before the Docklands redevelopment began in the 1980s, as can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/jonathanbarker/2181299314/
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
You have been warned!
I suspect that the cables contained within this housing are not actually part of the railway infrastructure, but are part of the National Grid.
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The London Overground service between Highbury & Islington and New Cross/New Cross Gate was suspended over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend (24-26 May 2014) to adapt the line to take 5-car trains. The London Transport Museum took advantage of the closure to offer escorted walks through the tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping Stations.
The Tunnel was originally built as a pedestrian tunnel and opened in 1843; it was the only project on which Marc Isambard Brunel and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, worked together. It was sold for railway use in 1869, the first trains running four years later.
The tunnel was extensively renovated during the 1990s, during which most of it was restored to its original appearance.