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White Hart Road, LONDON, SE18 1DW

For a view of the railway bridge in the centre of the photo when it was open to traffic, see Image

This photo is taken from the north side of the bridge, on the part of White Hart Road (an industrial area) which is effectively cut off by the bridge to any vehicle over 10ft 9in high (quite low compared with most railway bridges). The railway is the North Kent Line from London to Dartford via Greenwich.

This building on White Hart Road appears to be a standard Southern Railway brick-built substation feeding the adjacent North Kent Line. It is just across the road from a former electricity generating station, which is logical.

White Hart Road in Plumstead, in the suburbs of south east London. The brick building to the right of the image is an electrical substation built by the Southern Railway to provide electric current to the adjacent railway tracks

Gunning Street is a residential road in Plumstead, in the suburbs of south east London.

This building was originally the electricity generating station for Woolwich and Plumstead. It opened in 1903 as a combined rubbish incinerator and electricity generating station, most unusual for the time. The generating plant was closed in the 1920s following the building of the larger power station alongside the Thames at Woolwich (now demolished) but the incinerator carried on working into the 1970s (now replaced by the SELCHP plant in Deptford. After that the office part of it was used by Greenwich Council for a while but the whole site is currently derelict and patrolled by a security firm. It was listed grade 2 in 2000 (listed building no. 487648 or Heritage asset number 1271530 from 2011). This is the view from White Hart Road. Photos of the inside can be found at http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=4910 and the list description is at http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1271530