Railway Side, Barnes
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Railway Side, Barnes
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 17 May 2014
No longer quite as close to the railway as the name might suggest. These days a roughly triangular plot of land (used as allotments) lies between Railway Side and the Waterloo-Windsor line. However, a railway line once passed much closer. West of Barnes station the line out of Waterloo forks - one branch running west to Windsor, the other north-west towards Hounslow (the Hounslow Loop). The Barnes Curve - which once ran parallel to Railway Side - completed a triangular layout, leaving the Windsor line near White Hart Lane, and joining the Hounslow line close to Barnes Bridge. All the lines involved were built by the London & South Western Railway. The Barnes Curve opened to traffic in 1862, but was lifted as early as 1881. I can find no reference to it in Dendy Marshall's 'History of the Southern Railway' - and my prime source of information is Ian Yarham's Geograph: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2237211
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Image Location
Latitude
51.468234
Longitude
-0.252918