Viaducts and scrap-yards, Bermondsey
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Viaducts and scrap-yards, Bermondsey
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 19 May 2011
North of New Cross, various railway lines converge on London Bridge, all on viaducts. Between them, until the latter half of the twentieth century, other lines dropped to ground level to reach the Surrey Commercial Docks to the east, or Bricklayers Arms goods station to the west. Amongst this tangle of viaducts and disused lines there is now a complex area of scrap yards, industrial estates and waste disposal sites. From rail level one sees tantalising glimpses of this nether world but, of course, one is almost always in motion and thus a crisp photograph is difficult.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.489685
Longitude
-0.056052