Seven Kings: Great Eastern Main Line
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Seven Kings: Great Eastern Main Line
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 25 Apr 2011
This is the view of the Great Eastern Main Line, built through here in 1839, looking towards Liverpool Street from the Aldborough Road South bridge. The 1864 Ordnance Survey map calls this the Cauliflower Bridge. On the right is the eastern end of the large Ilford Depot and Maintenance Works, which includes the water tower. The Seven Kings Curve of the Great Eastern Railway's Woodford and Ilford Branch, opened in 1903, diverted from the main line and curved off to the right more or less under where the water tower is now. The curve was lifted when the Ilford Depot was expanded in the late 1950s.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.56333
Longitude
0.090648