(rshsdepot) Spa Road station, London

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Spa Road Station (1836, closed 1915) (London & Greenwich Railway)
Remnants of the platforms can be seen at Spa Road Junction today, the station front with "Booking Office" is under an arch. London Bridge Station soon became the terminus. The railroad in 1915 at closing was the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. 
Spa Road Station, 1900: http://www.yellins.co.uk/transporthistory/rail/sparoad.jpg
The station was moved in 1842 and renamed 1877 as the Spa Road & Bermondsey Station.
Platform in 1968: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/s/spa_road/spa_road1.jpg
Local map showing station location: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/s/spa_road/map.gif
60 million bricks were used to build the 834 arch viaduct of the London and Greenwich.:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sackett/saga5.8.gif

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End of RSHSDepot Digest V1 #967
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