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Aldborough Road South, ILFORD, IG3 8HP

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 Fairlop Loop left the Great Eastern main line roughly in the middle of what is now Ilford Depot, and ran north to loop around to join the Loughton - Epping - Ongar line. The first mile was abandoned when the rest of the line became part of the Central tube line - the tube coming to the surface south of Newbury Park station. There are three road over-bridges on the abandoned part, all seemingly in similar condition to this one - structurally intact but partly buried. This carries Vicarage Lane, the others, Benton Road and Wards Road. The building on the far side of the bridge is on the site of the north junction of the triangular connection to the main line and is part of the residential redevelopment of the site of the former Plessey Company, which occupied the land on the south side of Vicarage Lane from this bridge westwards to the junction with Ley Street and latterly used the junction site as a car park.

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.

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.

A parapet of the apparently intact but partly buried bridge taking Vicarage Lane over the course of the GER Fairlop loop line. The southern end of this was abandoned when the rest of the line was connected to an extension of the Central Line and became part of it.