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©Mike Quinn
©Nigel Chadwick
The footbridge brings pedestrians over the two fast lines into London Bridge (foreground) and the line that has avoided Lewisham station and here is rejoining the main route (behind the greenery). St John's station, an island platform between the two slow lines, is behind the camera. The track layout here, with twinned fast and slow lines, avoiding line and so forth, was remodelled by British Rail as part of its "Operation London Bridge" in the early 1970s, when much effort was put into separating Charing Cross and Cannon Street trains long before they reached London Bridge, thus preventing their having to cross each other at Borough Market junction next to Southwark Cathedral (a long-standing site of congestion). Prior to this work, St John's station had a second island platform between the fast lines, although few trains stopped there. It was removed to allow the Up Fast line to be moved across to give room for the new line from Lewisham coming down from the Nunhead line viaduct. Also prior to the remodelling there were a couple of goods sidings here; in the late 1950s international freight wagons were stored here prior to their return by boat trains.
©Christopher Hilton
©Mike Quinn
Opened in 1873 by the South Eastern Railway on its line from London Bridge to Lewisham. View north west towards London. There used to be further platforms to the left.
©Nigel Thompson
©Nigel Chadwick
Shows the location of [[1033667]].
©Mike Quinn
©Nigel Chadwick
©Mike Quinn
©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.1km<br/>Wooden peal boards in churches are quite common; stone monuments commemorating a peal are rarer. But the occasion for this peal of Grandsire Triples one was for the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901, which presumably merited the expense.
©Stephen Craven
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©Mike Quinn
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©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.1km<br/>The window tracery is in the Decorated style, but the glass and design are firmly late Victorian.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.1km<br/>At the junction with St John's Vale SE8
©R Sones

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