The former Greenwich Park railway at Brookmill Park
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The former Greenwich Park railway at Brookmill Park
Image: © Marathon Taken: 6 May 2011
The London, Chatham & Dover Railway opened a line in 1871 with stations at Nunhead, Brockley Lane, Lewisham Road, and Blackheath Hill, to eventually reach Greenwich Park in 1888. Declining passenger numbers caused its closure in 1917 although the section from Nunhead to a point just east of Lewisham Road station was reopened to provide an alternative route into central London. Between the point where the Greenwich Park branch crossed over the main lines at St Johns and the terminus at Greenwich Park, the line was abandoned. This embankment at the southern end of Brookmill Park together with its continuation on the other side of Brookmill Road are the main indications now that this line ever existed beyond St Johns.
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