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Aldborough Road South, ILFORD, IG3 8EU

This beautiful 1930s style lamp-post can be found in the front garden of the corner house at the junction of Cameron Road and Elgin Road. I have posted on to a streetlight enthusiast's website to try to get it identified! View taken from Cameron Road, near the bottom edge of the square, looking south-east in the direction of Seven Kings Station.

Vicarage Lane Allotments North is on the other side of the road but further west.

The Electric lines are on the left, the Main lines (electrified later) on the right. The crossover enables up trains to enter Ilford Depot, just behind the viewpoint.

The line through here was opened on 20th June 1839 by the Eastern Counties Railway, as the Mile End (temporary terminus) to Romford section of what was to become the Great Eastern Main Line. The London terminus was moved in July 1840 to Shoreditch (later renamed Bishopsgate), and at the eastern end the line was extended out to Brentwood in the same year. Colchester was reached by 1843. Liverpool Street opened in stages from February 1874. The line was quadrupled to Ilford in 1895 and in 1899 out to Seven Kings, at which stage Seven Kings station opened on 1st March 1899. In 1902 the quadruple track was extended from Seven Kings to Romford. In this photograph the original lines, now the slow lines are to the right while the fast lines dating from 1902 are out of sight to the left beyond railings. A TfL train bound for Liverpool Street is just leaving. The next station in this direction is Ilford.

Unit 345043 in new Elizabeth Line branding brings up the rear of a train heading for Liverpool Street station, where this part of the line still terminates at present. Eventually, services will run through to Paddington and beyond.

The east end of Ilford Depot on the left.

This is the view of the Great Eastern Main Line, built through here in 1839, looking towards Liverpool Street from the Aldborough Road South bridge. The 1864 Ordnance Survey map calls this the Cauliflower Bridge. On the right is the eastern end of the large Ilford Depot and Maintenance Works, which includes the water tower. The Seven Kings Curve of the Great Eastern Railway's Woodford and Ilford Branch, opened in 1903, diverted from the main line and curved off to the right more or less under where the water tower is now. The curve was lifted when the Ilford Depot was expanded in the late 1950s.

Looking from platform 4 towards Liverpool Street.