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<br/>This is a close up view of [[862994]] taken of the downstream face from the Chelsea Harbour side of the River Thames.
©Nigel Cox
<br/>Stretch of the River Thames between Battersea and Sands End. The bridge carries the railway from Clapham Junction to Olympia among other places.
©Noel Foster
<br/>From the riverside walkway beside the Thames at Imperial Wharf, with flats at Battersea on the other side of the river.
©Derek Harper
<br/>Part of the Thames-side development near Sands End, overlooking Battersea Reach. The parasols are outside Riverside Tower, and the bridge in the background is that shown in [[29527]].
©Derek Harper
<br/>Carries the railway over the River Thames between Clapham Junction Station and Paddington Station
©Alexander P Kapp
<br/>Battersea Rail Bridge taken from the Battersea Helicopter Pad
©RAY JONES
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Battersea Railway Bridge was designed by William Baker, chief engineer of the London and North Western Railway, and was opened in 1863 at a cost of £87,000. It was built to carry The West London Extension Railway over Battersea Reach of the River Thames, linking Clapham Junction to the south of the river with Willesden Junction to the north. It consists of five 120 foot or 37 metre long lattice girder arches set on stone piers. According to contemporary Ordnance Survey maps published shortly after its opening it was originally known as Battersea New Bridge. Other sources indicate that it was also called the Cremorne Bridge, after the pleasure grounds in Chelsea. Rail traffic is subject to speed restrictions when using the bridge and here a Southern Railways train bound for Clapham Junction trundles across it. The centre of the river is the boundary between the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham to the left and Wandsworth to the right.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Commuter river boat services operate from Chelsea Harbour Pier. Although run privately by Thames Executive Charters they are operated under the Transport for London umbrella. There are five weekday morning services, currently (Summer 2008) scheduled to leave at 0635, 0715, 0750, 0810 and 0855 hours, that go to Blackfriars Millennium Pier via Cadogan Pier and Embankment Pier. Journey times to Blackfriars take about 25 minutes. Curiously there are only three scheduled return services in the afternoon and evenings (1710, 1820, and 1910 hours from Blackfriars if you must know!) Somewhere in the photograph is a plastic owl strategically placed to keep other birds off the superstructure! St Mary's Church, Battersea, is visible across the river with the slanting roofline of the Montevetro block to the left.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Carries the railway from Clapham Junction Station to Paddington Station
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.1km north<br/>The Riverside Walkway, from which this is taken, runs alongside the harbour development. Behind the yacht club rises Chelsea Crescent.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.1km north<br/>As taken from crossing the Battersea railway bridge northbound
©Chris Eaton
Dist:0.1km north<br/>This is the entrance into Chelsea Harbour through [[863313]] from the River Thames. The bridge is, I think, a bascule bridge, like Tower Bridge, in that it is one where the bridge deck pivots about a horizontal axis with a counterweight on the other side. Note the traffic lights controlling boat movements into and out of the lock!
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.1km north<br/>The lock leading into the former Chelsea Basin has been here for a long time, certainly since 1869, when it is shown on the Ordnance Survey maps of that year. Today the basin is a marina and the square holes in the lock gates allow excess water to drain out of the marina into the lock at low tide.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.1km north<br/>These houseboats are moored at Albion Quay, where the low tidal conditions have revealed the stoney foreshore. The bridge in the background is the Battersea Railway Bridge, also known as the Cremorne Bridge, built in 1863.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Moored at pontoons beside Groveside Court, these seem to be houseboats.
©Derek Harper

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