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Off Connaught Road.

Opposite the former Silvertown railway station.

Silvertown was on the North London Line until the section from Stratford to North Woolwich was closed in December 2006. It is now being redeveloped under the Crossrail scheme ( http://www.crossrail.co.uk/ ). The Tate & Lyle sugar refinery dominates the background. See the station shortly after closure here Image

Silvertown was on the North London Line until the section from Stratford to North Woolwich was closed in December 2006. It is now being redeveloped under the Crossrail scheme ( http://www.crossrail.co.uk/ ). The Tate & Lyle sugar refinery dominates the background. See the station shortly after closure here Image

Opened in 1863 by the Eastern Counties Railway on the line from Canning Town to North Woolwich, this station closed in 2006. View east towards North Woolwich. The station was originally two platforms with the main building on the right. By the 1990s it had shrunk to one platform and a small building between the track and Connaught Road, to the left. Redevelopment of the site for Crossrail was underway when this image was taken.

The decorated wall runs along Connaught Road and Albert Road parallel to the railway line.

Silvertown was the penultimate station on the North London Line until the section from Stratford to North Woolwich was closed in December 2006.

Sir Henry Tate (1819-1899) was a philanthropic Victorian sugar magnate. Besides donating his art collection to establish the Tate Gallery Image, in 1887 he ordered the construction of this sadly neglected little building opposite his Silvertown sugar works for the benefit of his workers. The Institute closed in 1933 and the building was sold to be used as the local library until 1961. It can be found at the junction of Wythes Road with Albert Road. The Tate sugar business merged with the Lyle organization to form Tate & Lyle in 1921.

This view is from the footbridge at the former Silvertown station and looks along the route of the former North London Line which is being transformed with the construction of Crossrail. The next station in this direction will be at Woolwich after Crossrail has passed under the River Thames. Silvertown station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 19th June 1863. When the Royal Albert Dock was built in 1880, the railway was diverted through a tunnel under the cut between the Victoria Dock and the Royal Albert Dock. Silvertown station was rebuilt in 1885 and 1979, but the station which was then on the North London Line, was closed with the rest of the line between Stratford and North Woolwich on 9th December 2006. The station was demolished in 2012. For a much fuller history and a chronological series of photographs of the station of and from this same footbridge see http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/silvertown/ On the right is Tate & Lyle Thames Refinery. Henry Tate & Sons moved to Silvertown in 1878 where they built their Thames Refinery and Abram Lyle & Sons built their works in 1881 at Plaistow Wharf, further towards Canning Town, mainly for the production of golden syrup. The companies merged in 1921 to form Tate & Lyle. Thames Refinery at Silvertown is the largest sugar refinery in the EU and one of the largest in the world, with a capacity of 1.2 million tonnes per annum. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4799283 Connaught Road is on the left here and Factory Road beyond the railings on the right.

This view is from the footbridge at the former Silvertown station and looks along the route of the former North London Line which is being transformed with the construction of Crossrail. The next station in this direction will be at Woolwich after Crossrail has passed under the River Thames. Silvertown station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 19th June 1863. When the Royal Albert Dock was built in 1880, the railway was diverted through a tunnel under the cut between the Victoria Dock and the Royal Albert Dock. Silvertown station was rebuilt in 1885 and 1979, but the station which was then on the North London Line, was closed with the rest of the line between Stratford and North Woolwich on 9th December 2006. The station was demolished in 2012. For a much fuller history and a chronological series of photographs of the station of and from this same footbridge see http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/silvertown/ On the right is Tate & Lyle Thames Refinery. Henry Tate & Sons moved to Silvertown in 1878 where they built their Thames Refinery and Abram Lyle & Sons built their works in 1881 at Plaistow Wharf, further towards Canning Town, mainly for the production of golden syrup. The companies merged in 1921 to form Tate & Lyle. Thames Refinery at Silvertown is the largest sugar refinery in the EU and one of the largest in the world, with a capacity of 1.2 million tonnes per annum. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4799283 Connaught Road is on the left here and Factory Road beyond the railings on the right.