Oakleigh Park Station Northern Approach
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The photograph on this page of Oakleigh Park Station Northern Approach by John Kingdon as part of the Geograph project.
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Oakleigh Park Station Northern Approach
Image: © John Kingdon Taken: 28 Aug 2023
A blue Lumo train heads south past the housing estate on Shurland Avenue to its east. Just above the nose of the train one can see an old concrete and steel lamppost just inside the railway fencing which is all that survives of the infrastructure of a railway marshalling yard that until the early 1960's occupied the land. Vauxhall cars in crates were once brought there by train from the Luton factory for onward transit to the London docks and export. Doubtless it was a costly and inefficient enterprise that is as long gone now as the London docks themselves. One can see the lamppost on photos of the time lighting the start of the sidings. It lingers on without purpose.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.638955
Longitude
-0.167458