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Dist:0.3km north<br/>The station dates from 1889 and was originally built by the Metropolitan Railway. It is in the centre of a Y-shaped arrangement of elevated railways. The railway on the east side of the Y is now disused, and District Line trains use the elevated route in the photograph which forms the western arm of the Y. The words 'East Putney' can just be picked out in relief at the top of the white buttress on the right. The van belongs to Tube Lines, yet another body with responsibility for running some part of the railway infrastructure, in this case providing maintenance services for trains and infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines...
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The Court is located on the north side of the Upper Richmond Road (the A205 South Circular Road), just to the east (as evidenced by the sign!) of East Putney tube station.
©Nigel Cox
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Dist:0.4km north<br/>Chapel at TQ249745.
©Noel Foster
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This is the view of the Network Rail tracks looking towards Wandsworth Town and Clapham Junction stations from the Woodlands Way pedestrian footbridge. Originally the London & South Western Railway built a junction here to enable trains to run directly between Clapham Junction and East Putney stations. The line was opened in 1889. The now-dismantled viaduct in the centre of the photograph would have carried eastbound 'up' trains from East Putney round to join the main line at a junction near Putney Bridge Road. The Southern Railway (the successors to the L&SWR) terminated passenger services in 1941, and eventually the decking of the flyover was removed. However the former westbound line towards East Putney still exists, on the long brick viaduct to the right, and is used occasionally for various non-passenger operational train movements with two-way working on the single track.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This is one of the few locations where the London Underground railway passes over the Network Rail system. In the distance an 'up' District Line train trundles out of East Putney station, towards the Fulham Railway Bridge over the Thames, while in the foreground an 'up' South West Trains unit is heading towards Clapham Junction. The two railway tracks on the left, with the distant signals set to green, are the 'down' slow and the 'down' fast, while the pair on the right are the 'up' fast and 'up' slow. The distant bridge beyond the London Underground viaduct is the one for Oxford Road.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km north<br/>In true GCSE examination style compare and contrast this with [[726539]]! To the stranger the names South and North Circular Roads might imply a sense of commonality, but... I can do no better than quote from the opening lines of the excellent SABRE http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/ website's description of the A205: "Welcome to the largest collection of signposts in the country. London’s South Circular Road, unlike its northern counterpart, is not so much a coherent through route, more an intricate series of one way systems linked by short lengths of suburban streets. Route-finding is a nightmare, with odd turnings down unlikely-looking side streets occurring when you least expect them. Very few people attempt (still less achieve) the journey end-to-end – it is usually quicker, despite the extra distance, to use the North Circular Road, or just to go straight through the middle of London! Most regular drivers in South London have go-arounds using quiet back streets to avoid the worst stretches – most of these (including mine!) are jealously guarded secrets." Here, not only is the road narrow, but it passes under the 15' 0" height restriction of London Underground's District Line bridge next to East Putney station. Between East Putney station and the Fulham Railway Bridge the District Line railway passes over 5 roads each with a distinctive metal box bridge. See [[824083]] [[824089]] [[824101]] [[824353]] for the others.
©Nigel Cox
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©Noel Foster
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Between East Putney station and the Fulham Railway Bridge the District Line railway passes over 5 roads each with a distinctive metal box bridge. See [[823906]] [[824089]] [[824101]] [[824353]] for the others. (To the person with the green Beamer on the right who got a parking ticket this was the moment it was issued...)
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km west<br/>This is the senior department, juniors are round the corner in Lytton Grove.
©Noel Foster
Dist:0.6km north<br/>The 1874 Edition of the Ordnance Survey mapping shows little development in the area, but by the time that the 1896 Edition was published, the current road layout and houses had all appeared. The road on the left is Esmond Street.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Between East Putney station and the Fulham Railway Bridge the District Line railway passes over 5 roads each with a distinctive metal box bridge. See [[823906]] [[824083]] [[824101]] [[824353]] for the others.
©Nigel Cox

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