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Avonley Road, LONDON, SE14 5EX

Looking south towards the houses on Avonley Road.

One of 14 surface cooling station buildings at 1-mile intervals serving the National Grid underground cable tunnel between Bexley Image and Wimbledon. To allow these cables to carry more current, there are cooling pipes adjacent to the cables, carrying water pumped from these cooling stations. The shafts, tunnels and cooling stations were originally constructed in the 1960’s and are the route for the main 275kV cables supplying South London. They were refurbished in 2005. [Sources: http://www.skanska.co.uk/cdn-1cd94af82cd9070/Global/Sevices/Civils/Document/Wimbledon-Tunnels-Project-Sheet.pdf and http://www.alpine-components.co.uk/case-studies-feedback/national-grid/john-howlett/ ] The facility is roughly on the line of a railway shown on old maps that linked sidings at Deptford Wharf on the Thames to the South London Loop line through Peckham.

Looking east towards the John Williams Close end. This section of the path roughly follows a railway line shown on old maps that linked the main line at New Cross Gate to the South London Loop line through Peckham.

The nearer block, Thompson House, is roughly on the line of a railway shown on old maps that linked sidings at Deptford Wharf on the Thames to the South London Loop line through Peckham.

The railway is the London Overground between Queens Road Peckham and Surrey Quays.

The path descends at its northern end to the subway under Hornshay Street. The housing block in the photo is Thompson House. A bicycle lies abandoned on the grass.

A new subway under the railway embankment links Hornshay Street to the west with Bridge House Meadows to the east. The tower blocks in the distance are (I think) Grasmere Point Image and Ambleside Point.

The London Overground train in this view has just passed the four aspect signal shown in Image, turning it to red (stop); the repeater signal now shows a horizontal bar.

Between Queen's Road and South Bermondsey stations, the train traveller can see new track peeling off eastwards: the formation for what will become the London Overground line from Clapham Junction onto the old East London Line towards Highbury and Islington. The new line reinstates a former track, used when the East London line was a route for distributing goods to and from the Surrey Commercial Docks.