Closed railway tunnel, Upper Sydenham
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Closed railway tunnel, Upper Sydenham by Malc McDonald as part of the Geograph project.
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Closed railway tunnel, Upper Sydenham
Image: © Malc McDonald Taken: 17 Oct 2010
This was once a railway line. The branch line to Crystal Palace High Level passed through the tunnel. The line was never very successful and when the Crystal Palace itself was destroyed by fire in 1936, the fate of the branch line was sealed. It struggled on until closure in 1954. The tunnel mouth at the former Upper Sydenham station is one of a number of relics of the railway which can still be seen today, more than half a century since the last train ran. The 'Disused Stations' website http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/u/upper_sydenham/index.shtml has pictures of this site when the railway was still running.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.430925
Longitude
-0.070056