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Park View, CHIGWELL, IG7 5EF

Downstream of a bridleway bridge.

The River Roding rises near Dunmow, then flows through Essex to form Barking Creek as it reaches the River Thames. For more information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Roding and http://www.londonslostrivers.com/river-roding.html and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/riversandcanals/9885094/Germaine-Greer-its-time-to-take-care-of-Essexs-rivers.html and http://thelostbyway.com/tag/river-roding This view is looking downriver from the small footbridge just south of the Central line viaduct. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5274177 for the view in the other direction.

Viewed looking downstream from the footbridge by Image the water level in the Roding appeared much lower than usual at this time of year, after a sustained period of dry weather during the spring of 2011.

Few stretches of the London tube network are as rural as the Woodford to Hainault branch of the Central Line. Here a train crosses the viaduct over the River Roding, not far from Roding Valley station. This line was built by the Eastern Counties railway in the mid nineteenth century and became part of the Central Line about a hundred years later.

This is the River Roding viewed looking upstream at the point at which the former Great Eastern Railway built their viaduct across the river in about 1903 for their Woodford and Ilford Branch. At the grouping of the railway companies in 1923 operations were taken over by the London & North Eastern Railway, but prior to the nationalization of the railways in 1948 responsibilities were transferred to London Underground and today Central Line trains use the viaduct.