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RD11668. Wapping Station in East London, opened in 1869 by the East London Railway. It is situated at the north end of the Thames Tunnel which was build by Marc Brunel and his son Isambard during 1825 to 1843 although there was a seven year break in construction while further funds were raised.
Although planned as a road tunnel, there were insufficient funds to build the access ramps so it remained a foot tunnel with access by spiral staircases. The access to Wapping Station is via the north access shaft and although there are still stairs leading down to the platforms, there is also a lift.
It was taken over by the East London Railway in 1865 and opened as a railway tunnel in 1869, thus providing a rail link between north and south London. In 1933 the Thames Tunnel became part of the London Transport underground system although main line freight trains still used it until 1962; it now forms part of the London Overground network and pictures on the walls depict the station and the tunnel in earlier times.
This one shows it in the days when it was part of London Transport's Metropolitan Line with a train of 'F' Stock approaching on the northbound line while a freight train disappears towards the south.
Wednesday, 15th July, 2015. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
You can see a view towards Wapping Wharf, M Shed and some cranes.
Wapping Wharf has a rich history dating back to the 18th century when it became the site of shipyards and a dry dock. When Bristol's merchants developed Queen Square around 1700, its shipyards were displaced to Wapping Wharf, marking the start of the area's long association with ship building.
Since Wapping Wharf opened in 2016, we've been committed to being a space for independent businesses to grow and thrive.
(From wappingwharf.co.uk)
M Shed is a museum in Bristol, England, located on Prince's Wharf beside the Floating Harbour in a dockside transit shed formerly occupied by Bristol Industrial Museum. The museum's name is derived from the way that the port identified each of its sheds. M Shed is home to displays of 3,000 artefacts and stories, showing Bristol's role in the slave trade and items on transport, people, and the arts. Admission is free. The museum opened in June 2011, with exhibits exploring life and work in the city. In its first year, 700,000 people visited the new museum.
Normally moored in front of the museum is a collection of historic vessels, which include a 1934 fireboat (the Fire-float Pyronaut), and two tugboats (Mayflower, the world's oldest surviving steam tug, and John King, a 1935 diesel tug) and the replica caravel The Matthew, the ship that crossed the Atlantic with John Cabot in 1497.
On the quayside outside the museum are four electrically powered cargo cranes built in 1951 by Stothert & Pitt. Three of these cranes are operational and operate some weekends. A short distance to the west on Wapping Wharf is a much older crane, the sole surviving operational example of a Fairbairn steam crane. Built in 1878, also by Stothert & Pitt, it was in regular use until 1973, loading and unloading ships and railway wagons with loads up to 35 tons. It has been restored and is in working order, operating on some bank holidays and during the Bristol Harbour Festival. (From Wikipedia)
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We are going to Gloucester tomorrow to visit my brother and take him out for a late birthday lunch. Back soon
A monochrome picture of Former London Transport RT3251, was running a few trips on route 100 as part of the Walworth garage open day. The bus is one of those owned by Ensignbus. Seen here in Wapping High Street.
Flickr says Rotherhithe, it is a long wet walk from here as it is over the Thames. This is Wapping.
Northern Rail class 142 unit No.142050 forming the 2N13 09:26 Newcastle to Carlisle service climbs the grade into Carlisle Citadel with 31106 waiting in High Wapping sidings ready to work the 3Q03 test train to Mossend Down Yard on Tuesday 30th July 2013. 31106 was delivered new from Brush Falcon Works, Loughborough in March 1959 as D5524
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Once this mysterious and rather isolated riverside and docklands area had no bus service. In 1966, just at the time the docks were closing, route 67 was extended here, ending their isolation (though there has always been a station). For some time the main route through the area has been the 100 between Shadwell and Elephant & Castle, serving much more of the area than the 67 ever did.
On Saturday 19th July 2014 there was an open day at the Abellio's Walworth garage and as WL operates the 100, Ensign's RT3251 ran some extra trips on the route. This gave the unique opportunity to travel over the route on a double-decker.
This panorama is made from two scanned negs, I think this may be a unique view across towards Albert Dock which now can not be replicated.
Camera Pentax 6x7, 45mm lens film Kodak VPS.
Alongside the Floating Harbour in the Bristol Docks area is ‘M Shed’ which now a museum. These transit warehouses were served by an extensive rail network and in this view GWR pannier tank 3731 is shunting at Princes Quay in the mid 1950s. Attached is a shunters truck which is marked as being dedicated to use in the Wapping Wharf area.
At this time the locomotive was allocated to Bristol St Phillips Marsh shed 82B moving west to St Blazey 83E in Cornwall in 1961, before being transferred to Neath Court Sart shed 87A in 1962 for its last two years before withdrawal.
View taken on 13 October 1973.
Scanned from a Kodachrome slide taken by the late Lyndon Rowe, now in my collection.
Salthouse Dock is the oldest existing dock in Liverpool, and some of the masonry in the south-west corner of the dock is from the original construction. The dock walls are Grade II listed. A granite stone gable and arch entrance survives at the south east corner of the dock, from a transit shed built by Jesse Hartley.
Wapping Arch Liverpool. 237/365