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Fairthorn Road, LONDON, SE7 7RL

This passage way from Fairthorn Road leads across the branch railway line to Angerstein Wharf before crossing the Blackwall Tunnel Approach. For more information, an update and photographs see https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/05/31/londons-alleys-fairthorne-road-se7/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklyemailblog

This urban footpath links the residential streets east of the A102 with Westcombe Park station via a railway level crossing and footbridge. See Image for a reverse view by another contributor.

After passing under a house in Fairthorn Road and between back gardens, these steps take you up to cross over the Angerstein Wharf branch railway line. For more information, an update and photographs see https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/05/31/londons-alleys-fairthorne-road-se7/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklyemailblog

The Angerstein Wharf branch railway line is one of the very few freight railway lines left in the Greater London area which serve the River Thames and are still active. It branches away from the North Kent Line near Charlton station and heads north to terminate at Angerstein's Wharf on the Thames, one mile away. John Angerstein was a successful businessman from a Russian family and is thought to be the only individual to obtain an Act of Parliament for a railway. If the branch had not passed over a turnpike road he would not have needed to go to this trouble. Today long lines of hopper wagons can be seen passing over Woolwich Road and Bugsby's Way on their way to and from the Thames. For the scene at the other end of the line see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2372236 For more information, an update and photographs see https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/05/31/londons-alleys-fairthorne-road-se7/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weeklyemailblog

Before the construction of the A102 in the 1960s this was part of Westcombe Hill.

In the distance, to the left the towers of Canary Wharf, across the Thames on the Isle of Dogs and in the centre of the shot the O2 venue, previously the Millennium Dome.

Looking through the gate of a construction site at the southern end of Fairthorn Road, towards apartment blocks and town houses under construction. Sadly there appears to be no Geograph photo of the warehouses formerly on the site.

The bridge carries a single track freight railway. See Image which shows a train about to pass over the bridge. The road sign in front of the bridge is for the roundabout beyond it, which gives access to the A102 (Blackwall Tunnel approach road).