Cricklewood station
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Cricklewood station
Image: © Marathon Taken: 18 Feb 2015
Cricklewood station was opened as Childs Hill and Cricklewood by the Midland Railway in 1868 on its extension to St. Pancras. The station acquired its present name in 1903. This view is from the down platform. The next station in this direction is Hendon. East Midlands Trains InterCity services from Leeds, Sheffield and Leicester to and from St Pancras International run through on the high speed lines, which are to the left here. John Betjeman actually wrote a poem about Cricklewood and its trains: "...Midland, bound for Cricklewood. Puffed its sulphur to the sunset where that Land of Laundries stood." Apart from agriculture, laundering was the chief occupation as the local water was unusually pure and soft. There were also brickworks in this area, but brickmaking was a seasonal occupation, so brickmakers married laundresses who earned money for the family in the idle months of winter.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.559094
Longitude
-0.213517