West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway
- West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway
The West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway opened on the 1st December 1856 from Crystal Palace railway station to a point south east of Clapham Junction railway station where it connected with the London and South Western Railway. A subsequent extension to Battersea Wharf opened on 29 March 1858.
The original stations on the line were
*Crystal Palace Low Level
*Gipsy Hill
*West Norwood
*Streatham Hill - the 1856 wooden station booking hall remains unchanged
*Balham
*Wandsworth Common
The line at Battersea Wharf was connected to the Victoria Station & Pimlico Railway Company, enabling access to the Victoria terminus.
The West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway line was later connected eastwards to the Mid Kent Railway's line to St Mary Cray which joined the East Kent Railway's (latter renamed London, Chatham and Dover Railway) "Chatham" Main Line.
Following the construction of the LCDR's own Metropolitan Extensions in 1863, traffic over the line west of Crystal Palace was confined to the trains of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway.
External links
* [http://www.kentrail.co.uk/ Kent Rail]
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