Lost and abandoned railway stations in West London (WLR)
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- The West London line is a short railway in inner West London that links Clapham Junction in the south to Willesden Junction in the north. The line has always been an important cross-London link especially for freight services. Southern and London Overground provide regular passenger services
After a period of popularity, passenger usage dwindled on the West London Railway. Competition from the new deep-level Underground railways and electric tramways took away custom by offering more direct routes into Central London. With the onset of World War II, the West London line was badly hit in some parts by enemy action during the Blitz and the demise of the line was hastened by wartime bombing. In 1940
Another excellent presentation with fantastic historical photos as a bonus. Thank you for sharing details of this once-neglected but now important line. The music too has an Edwardian feel to it, adding to the atmosphere. Bravo!
Fab! Thank you for taking us along. Great soundtrack too 👌🏿
My late father was D grade relief based at Elmers End covering the whole line in the late 70's, he didn't linger there getting his E grade at Wimbledon A then F grade London Bridge plat 1-6 panel which the last was a brutal grinder of a panel. He retired from BR the most passed out signalman on their books as he maintained lesser boxes in his encyclopaedic knowledge of signalling, he would on his days off be seen at far flung places like Effingham Junc or Chislehurst getting double bubble overtime rate at his current grade rather than the box grade. In his last years at LB BR treated him appallingly, he'd been offered the signalling manager job at Edinburgh Waverley but unions kicked right off despite the old man being born in Edinburgh, they were on the point of downing tools over it and so they withdrew the offer of the job, tried to palm him off with an asst area manager think it was Charing Cross but the old man had enough and took early retirement and a job at Swanage Railway.
13:00 This shot of long gone Hammersmith Grove station always gets me.
There seems to be so little information about it and so this is _the_ photograph which always pops up.
It's so empty, up there on its elevated railway arches, with its sweeping curve and deep deep planked platforms mightily marching off into the foggy future.
Thank you for creating such a wonderfully nostalgic video. The hauntingly beautiful music of Josef Suk too. Looking forward to the other parts.
Thank you too!
Wow, first time seeing some of those in Shepherds Bush! Thank you😊
Absolutely brilliant piece of work, enjoyable but also sad. Can you tell us the name of the appropriate music please, it was very beautiful.?
Josef Suk Czech composer and violinist.
Serenade for Strings in E flat major, Op. 6 (1892)
@@LondonPowerThx LP. Shazam brought up something completely different 🤔
@@LondonPower Thank you very much
excellent stuff cheers
Beautiful choice of music to accompany your excellent presentation.
Thank you very much!
Elmer's End. The greatest railway station in the UK. it was a lifeline during COVID. Sitting on a deserted daytime station with the crows for company. They have a station teddy bear called Elmer who collects for charity . Great station Staff too.
First off. Impressive video and I enjoyed it.
Secondly. How did you manage to get that close to both ends of the Sandilands tunnels (there are 3 and they are technically bridges) and get inside said tunnels?
Curious, as I work there and would like to know.
Christmas day not trams all the day!
@@LondonPower 😂 well done 👏
How sad it is to see all the modern photos showing scribble on every vertical surface. It's a pity that youth of today have so little to occupy their minds that they find it necessary to deface public property like this. No deterrents in place to stop it.
Back in the eighties, I lived behind Olympia station and often had to work late at Waterloo, now if my luck was in I could hitch a ride with a loco or train that could be momentarily stopped at the bridge crossing the Thames but more often than I cared for and always on a crappy stormy night I would have to do shanks pony hopping down on the track end of plat 1 at Clapham Junc and a slow trudge with the old Bardic lamp candle lighting the way hehe The ONLY salvation was getting to KO the signalman there who knew me signalman father would spot me and hook me in for a big mug o' char as I steamed the weather out of my uniform. Used to see some right ropey trains to and from KO, a pair of 09 shunters dragging a TC was amusing, I remember coming back from a very tiring night turn and I got the shuttle, fell asleep on it and woke up in Reading where the 33 and TC wandered to after its commuter runs for the post office lot (and me)
Really excellent and enjoyable thanks.Lots in my neck of the woods Addison Road.Is Counters Creek still flowing?lol
Eccept, TFL underground services take over, laborious steam operation gone, save time for operations, space vacant !
Does anyone know what that large building alongside the District Line on the cemetery side at West Brompton is/was? I've often wondered. Visible at the top of the frame at 6:23.
Old Brompton Road Substation electrical substation in South Kensington-Chelsea, Greater London, England.