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Gurdon Road, LONDON, SE7 7RW

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

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.

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 sign above the door reads "East Greenwich Fire Station" although the area this side of the A102 is generally thought of locally as Charlton rather than East Greenwich.

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

After nearly all the runners had gone through, the cleanup begins. Here the 5-mile marker is being dismantled.

This is a huge warehouse, about 70m long on the street frontage, and 150m deep as seen here. CINTAS is a multinational business services company, and document storage is one of their key services.