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For more on the building visit http://www.urban75.org/london/woolwich.html. The museum closed its doors in November following the withdrawal of its funding.

Rather oddly still descending at some distance back from the river bank. The gardens are of some age, called Pavilion Gardens on an 1869 map. Then, the tennis court ahead was a maze, and other features now lost were a Ball Room, a Dining Saloon and a Dancing Platform. There was also, amazingly, a rifle range down the principal west - east path (at the end of this one). One hopes the gardens were closed and well policed when this was in use.

The North Woolwich Old Station Museum was a small railway museum in Newham, east London. It was housed in what was the original Great Eastern Railway terminal station building at North Woolwich railway station. The building was in use as a ticket office until 1979 when it was replaced by a more austere building on the one remaining platform. It was derelict for many years until its opening as a museum in 1984. The line was electrified in 1985 when it became part of the North London Line but closed on 9 December 2006.

Closed in 1979, it housed a railway museum between 1984 and 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Woolwich_Old_Station_Museum

The station at North Woolwich was opened in 1847 although the terminal building dates from 1854. In latter years it acted as the eastern end of the North London Line from Richmond, but that service was cut back to Stratford in 2006 and the station here closed to passengers. The area is now served by the Docklands Light Railway which has a station nearby. For some years there was a railway museum based here but that too closed in 2008 leaving the rather splendid building disused and boarded up.

Opened in 1847 as the terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway's line from Stratford, which was later part of the Great Eastern Railway, this station closed to passengers in 2006. View north at the Grade II listed terminus building which was constructed in 1854 and was in railway use until 1979, after which tickets were sold from a more utilitarian building until closure of the line. It was used as a GER museum from 1984 to 2008. It had been empty for many years and was needing TLC when this image was taken, but by 2023 it was being used as a place of worship.

A grade II listed building, stated to be 1847 in the listing but 1854 in the modern lettering, hardly visible in this view, at the top of the central brickwork. At the very top is 'Great Eastern Railway Museum' which it was for a period after railway closure, until defeated by criminality. It seems that the listed building date of 1847 is in error. The railway and a wooden station here certainly opened in 1847, but this more robust building is an 1854 replacement on a slightly different site.

Taken late August 1965 as the train (a DMU) was pulling into North Woolwich station. Three platforms were available at that time - note another DMU in the right-hand platform. Taken on 35mm slide film. Scan has been 'Photoshopped' to minimise colour cast.