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12/jan/2025
Seen through the cab window of 185108 (54108) is Network Rail Class 150/1 Test Train DMU 950001 (999601), as we stand next to Carlisle Signal Box in High Wapping Sidings.
Taken whilst participating on "The Vallum Hadriani Tracker" railtour which was organised by the Branch Line Society, which ran from Manchester Piccadilly via York, the Sunderland coast and the Tyne Valley with many loops thrown in and then back down the WCML.
7th May 2017
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RD11676. 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.
Wednesday, 15th July, 2015. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
A brace of DRS class 20/3 rain-soaked 'Choppers', 20305 'Grest Bridge' and 20301 'Max Joule 1958-1999' come off the Maryport and Carlisle line passing High Wapping Sidings, the 6C46 Sellafield to Kingmoor nuclear flasks, to proceed as 6E44 to Seaton on Tees on Monday morning 9th June 2012.
© Copyright Gordon Edgar - No unauthorised use
RD11664. 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 the tunnel under construction.
Wednesday, 15th July, 2015. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Wapping Overground station, previously it was part of London Underground, being the East London branch of the Metropolitan Line.
An Underground ticket from Wapping from 1975 for 15p. This was to New Cross. The cash fare is now £1.90.
Lane in Wapping. Ilford 400 (can't remember whether Delta or HP5 but I wouldn't know the difference anyway). Sun and cloud kind of a day.
Olympus Trip 35
The 1980's London printing plant of News International where the might of the sleazy Rupert Murdoch empire met the Luddite print unions head-on. It was the success of this plant using new technology and the defeat of the unions following a bitter strike that enabled the mass exodus of newspapers from Fleet Street.
Now the controversial Wapping plant has closed and the site will be used for housing. Being so close to the City I very much doubt if any accommodation will be 'affordable'.
Don't know where News International titles are printed now. Hell perhaps?
The Wapping Gatehouse . I was told that this also served as a police station and was never decommissioned , so is probably the smallest police station in Britain .
3166 Kunst Das Wappen des Reichskanzlers Chlodwig Fürsten zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Prinzen von Ratibor und Corvey ist in seiner jetzigen Gestalt neueren Datums. Das Diplom ist in Breslau den 11. September 1890 ausgefertigt. Die Zusammenstellung beruht auf einem Erlass des Königs Friedrich Wilhelm IV. bei Gelegenheit der Erbhuldigung zu Berlin vom 15. October 1840. Damals wurde dem Fürsten als Neffen und Erben des am 12. November 1834 kinderlos verstorbenen Landgrafen Victor Amadeus von Hessen-Rotenburg, Herzogs von Ratibor, Fürsten von Corvey, der Titel eines Prinzen von Ratibor und Corvey verliehen. Aus: Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten, IX, Berlin (R. Bong) 1895.
Brand new entranceway on the reopened London Overground station.
Station Code: WPE.
Line(s) and Previous/Next Stations:
Shadwell < LONDON OVERGROUND [East London Line] > Rotherhithe
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This district in east London is now home to luxury flats, but was once part of the Docklands area. Many of the structures are new (last 30 years) but built in the style of warehouses. I can imagine it was a pretty rough area at one time. We saw a few older buildings with exterior damage which we thought might be from the Blitz.