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Addiscombe Railway Park is a 3.3 acres (1.3 ha) linear park. The first section of the park was opened on 26 May 2007, with the second section opened on 15 March 2010. It occupies the track route and green buffering land of the demolished 'Addiscombe Line', a short railway that ran between Lower Addiscombe Road and Woodside Junction.

The southern entrance to the park. Addiscombe Railway Park is a 3.3 acres (1.3 ha) linear park. The first section of the park was opened on 26 May 2007, with the second section opened on 15 March 2010. It occupies the track route and green buffering land of the demolished 'Addiscombe Line', a short railway that ran between Lower Addiscombe Road and Woodside Junction.

Addiscombe Railway Park is a 3.3 acres (1.3 ha) linear park. The first section of the park was opened on 26 May 2007, with the second section opened on 15 March 2010. It occupies the track route and green buffering land of the demolished 'Addiscombe Line', a short railway that ran between Lower Addiscombe Road and Woodside Junction.

Addiscombe Railway Park is a 3.3 acres (1.3 ha) linear park. The first section of the park was opened on 26 May 2007, with the second section opened on 15 March 2010. It occupies the track route and green buffering land of the demolished 'Addiscombe Line', a short railway that ran between Lower Addiscombe Road and Woodside Junction.

Sundridge Road to the left.

The railway line from Beckenham via Woodside to Addiscombe Road Croydon was opened on 1st April 1864. In 1885, a line opened from Woodside to South Croydon and after that Addiscombe (as it eventually became after 1955) was on the end of a branch, poorly placed for the centre of Croydon. The Woodside & South Croydon Line was closed in 1983, but the Addiscombe branch remained open although there was little demand with some off peak trains running empty. By 1993, Woodside station had become unstaffed and Addiscombe booking office was only open during the morning peak hours. Following the announcement that the line from Elmers End to Woodside was to be incorporated into the Croydon Tramlink scheme, it was clear that the terminus at Addiscombe would close. The last day of service was Saturday 31st May 1997. The line now forms Addiscombe Railway Park which opened as a linear park in May 2007. This is three quarters of the way along the old branch and looks back in the direction of the former Woodside station, not to be confused with the new Woodside Tramlink stop - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2524945.

These "tin tabernacles" were popular in the late nineteenth / early twentieth centuries: the church was supplied in effect in kit form. Often they were the first building erected by a congregation and might be replaced by a more permanent structure: the "tin tabernacle" could then be sold on to another congregation who were just starting out. Woodside Baptist Church to the northwest is a brick structure that replaced a tin tabernacle around the turn of the 19th /20th centuries.

These "tin tabernacles" were popular in the late nineteenth / early twentieth centuries: the church was supplied in effect in kit form. Often they were the first building erected by a congregation and might be replaced by a more permanent structure: the "tin tabernacle" could then be sold on to another congregation who were just starting out. Woodside Baptist Church to the northwest is a brick structure that replaced a tin tabernacle around the turn of the 19th /20th centuries.

These "tin tabernacles" were popular in the late nineteenth / early twentieth centuries: the church was supplied in effect in kit form. Often they were the first building erected by a congregation and might be replaced by a more permanent structure: the "tin tabernacle" could then be sold on to another congregation who were just starting out. Woodside Baptist Church to the northwest is a brick structure that replaced a tin tabernacle around the turn of the 19th /20th centuries.

These "tin tabernacles" were popular in the late nineteenth / early twentieth centuries: the church was supplied in effect in kit form. Often they were the first building erected by a congregation and might be replaced by a more permanent structure: the "tin tabernacle" could then be sold on to another congregation who were just starting out. Woodside Baptist Church to the northwest is a brick structure that replaced a tin tabernacle around the turn of the 19th /20th centuries.