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A view along the Green Way at West Ham. The tower blocks are a sign that this shared path is within London.

Steps from Manor Road to the Greenway have been supplemented by a lift Image and ramp for the many Olympic visitors expected to walk this way from West Ham interchange.

The Greenway is a former railway line from Beckton towards Hackney, it is now used by a cycleway and footpath. Since the Greenway passes by the Olympic Park. It has also been used as a cycle entrance into the park. The entrance will also be used for the Paralympic Games also being held in the Park. The ramp on the left leads towards West Ham Station and Manor Road. The purple boxes conceal - fold-out street lighting.

By the 1850s the River Thames in central London was a vast open sewer and “The Great Stink” of 1855 brought matters to a head. The smell was so strong that curtains soaked in calcium chloride had to be hung over the windows of the Houses of Parliament facing the river. The Government finally acknowledged the problem and established the Metropolitan Board of Works. Their first task was the provision of a proper sewerage and drainage system. The Northern and Southern Outfall Sewers were constructed between 1860 and 1865, the former carrying sewage from northern London to the Northern Outfall Works at Beckton. The Greenway has been opened up on top as a footway and cycle track and runs all the way from Victoria Park to Beckton. The Capital Ring follows most of it.

Looking towards Stratford, from the bridge that carries The Greenway and the Northern Outfall Sewer. The yellow pendulums are to stop overheight vehicles getting close enough to the bridge to hit it.

A permissive path built on top of an embankment which contains the Northern Outfall Sewer. There is an access from Manor Road close to here. There are fences each side which are intended to control access, but there are various paths up and down the side of the embankments from the nearby residential areas which suggest that local children get in without having to go the long way round.

West Ham is a complicated station. On the high level, shown here, are the District Line tracks, with a Wimbledon train ready to depart, and the ex-London, Tilbury and Southend platforms, from which this photograph was taken. Down below, but still above ground here, are the Jubilee Line tracks, and also the currently-disused trackbed of the North London Line, soon to be re-used for another Docklands Light Railway line which will serve Stratford and also Stratford International, on the Channel Tunnel route.