Looking up the line from Lewisham station
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Looking up the line from Lewisham station
Image: © Marathon Taken: 6 May 2011
The original part of Lewisham station opened in 1849, on the North Kent Line which by-passed Greenwich because the Royal Observatory did not want their sensitive instruments disturbed by trains. This view looks up the line towards St Johns. The train on the left has come from Victoria and is crossing the flyover under which bypass lines miss out Lewisham station altogether. It was under this flyover where the Lewisham train disaster of 4th December 1957 happened when 90 passengers were killed in Britain's third worst rail disaster. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB4as3sCn_Q for a newsreel from the time.
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Image Location
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51.467007
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-0.017423