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View northward from Battersea Rise bridge. The train is pulling away on the Down Central Section Slow line, towards Balham and Norwood or East Croydon, headed by Maunsell W class 2-6-4T No. 31921 (built 10/35, withdrawn 6/63), one of the class of 15 all of which spent almost the whole of their lives on cross-London freight work from SR Yards.

View northward from the Strath Terrace bridge, towards Clapham Junction station: ex-LB&SC main line from Victoria. Passing over Falcon Junction, the 14.08 Victoria - Tunbridge Wells West via Oxted is headed by LMS-type Fairburn 4MT 2-6-4T No. 42068 (built 10/50, withdrawn 12/63). The ex-LSW lines from Waterloo are on the left.

Class 377, 377469, descends the curve from Wandsworth Common with a train for London Victoria. The box section in the foreground extending from the bridge carrying St John's Hill over the tracks is the remnant of the support structure for a pedestrian access ramp to platforms 9 and 10 that has been removed (date of removal unknown but probably in the 1960's).

The entrance from Strath Terrace to a large estate of medium-rise social housing (originally part of the Peabody Trust)

View northward, towards London: ex-LSW Waterloo - the West main line, with the ex-LB&SC lines from Victoria to East Croydon, Brighton, etc. curving away on the right. On Summer Saturdays the 'ACE' ran in several portions: the 11.00 from Waterloo going to Ilfracombe/Torrington (due 16.38/16.30). The locomotive here is rebuilt Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' 4-6-2 No. 35015 'Rotterdam Lloyd' (built 3/45 as No. 21C15, renumbered 6/49, rebuilt 6/58, withdrawn 2/64).

View northward from Battersea Rise bridge, towards Clapham Junction station and London (Waterloo and Victoria). The four ex-LSW tracks from Waterloo are on the left, those from Victoria on the right; the bridge ahead is St Johns Hill. Not many years before their electrification, in the final years the important 'commuter' services from Basingstoke were handed over from the traditional old LSWR engines to new BR Standard 4-6-0s: here we have Class 4MT 4-6-0 No. 75075 (built 11/55, withdrawn 7/67).

View northward from the Strath Terrace bridge with the Station just visible far left, just passing over Falcon Junction is the 14.08 from Victoria, headed by LMS Fairburn 4MT 2-6-4T No. 42071 (built 11/50 at Brighton, withdrawn 3/67 having spent its life on the SR). (The flats on the right are the Peabody Estate).

View eastward, towards Clapham Junction and Waterloo on the ex-LSWR main line to the West; on the right is the ex-LB&SC main line from Victoria to East Croydon and Brighton, etc. The train was noted at the time as 'Empty Stock' but has the headcode for the Salisbury line, so it might be the 11.54 semi-fast from Waterloo running late. The locomotive is Maunsell 'Schools' V class 4-4-0 No. 30903 'Charterhouse' (built 4/30, withdrawn 12/62).

Train leaving Clapham Junction.

View SW towards Wimbledon etc. from the Battersea Rise bridge/Spencer Park Road on the day after a bad accident had occurred on the Up lines (nearest) at 08.10 the previous morning, in which 35 people were killed and over 500 injured. Owing to an installation fault with the signalling, a crowded Up train had run into the rear of another and the wreckage was then struck by a Down empty train. The view shows all four ex-LSWR tracks of the main Waterloo - Wimbledon - Woking and the West line blocked by the breakdown-train men at work more than 24 hours afterwards. The numerous casualties had been brought up the bank on the right to Spencer Park Road. (See also Image]).