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Viewed from Maxey Road bridge, this is the 14.07 Cannon Street circular service leaving Woolwich Arsenal.

The bridge crosses the North Kent railway line. There seems to be confusion over the speed limit at this point, with 30mph / 20mph signs at opposite sides of the road! There are also signs for the London Cycle Network.

Taken from the recently extended Up platform at Woolwich Arsenal station on a damp and dull day in 1959, looking eastwards towards Plumstead station. Sidings on both sides of the track still existed then, as did the signal box just right of centre. See Image for a rather more recent (and sunny) picture! Taken in TQ4378, but from just beyond the signal box onwards is in TQ4478. A closer view of the signal box can be found on Image Scanned from a 2.25 inch square black and white negative.

Looking east from Woolwich Arsenal station along a 5.7km stretch of dead straight railway. It runs across what was once Plumstead Marshes, before the line bends south at Belvedere towards Dartford. In this view you can just see the next station at Plumstead, 800m away. See Image for a 1959 view of the same bridge showing several tracks that have since been removed.

The sidings on the East side of Burrage Road bridge seen from the Maxey Road bridge, on a rather damp day in 1959. In the centre of the skyline, looming through the rain and murk, is the tower of the Woolwich Town hall (in TQ4378). No other high-rise buildings in sight then!

Council Offices on Seymour Street. Behind the offices (just seen on the left - yellow bricks) is the Grade II listed Royal Arsenal Middlegate House. See http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-200489-royal-arsenal-middlegate-house-woolwich for more details.

As seen from Image This line leads from Dartford (via Belvedere and Plumstead) and then it leads towards Woolwich Arsenal and Woolwich Dockyard before heading towards central London. In the background is Invermore Place road bridge.

The signal box at Woolwich Arsenal Station, seen on a wet and gloomy day in 1959, one of my earliest railway photographs. Taken from the end of Parry Place, which in 1959 ran to the edge of the railway retaining wall. There is some patterning on the photo as I was taking it through a chain-link fence. The signal box remained in use until March 1970. The photo was scanned from a 2.25 inch square negative and has been cropped to remove most of the sky with its chain-link pattern.