On 10 Jan, 14:17, Paul Terry wrote:
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martin writes

Any other stations which have a bit of land that could be put to such
good use?

Well, it's already been done, but the Gunnersbury Triangle (opposite
Chiswick Park Station) is a wonderful nature reserve, occupying former
railway land. Well worth a visit in better weather:

http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.as...&link=../gunne...

And who knows what's going to be done with New Cross depot?

The semicircle between the main lines and the spur that used to go
over the bridge as the up track from East Putney seems to be an
inaccessible wilderness and still enclosed as part of the railway.

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(MIG) wrote:

The semicircle between the main lines and the spur that used to go
over the bridge as the up track from East Putney seems to be an
inaccessible wilderness and still enclosed as part of the railway.

I thought there used to be allotments there. There were some at Clapham
Junction on the curve from the WLE to the Up Windsor Line until the curve
was reinstated for Eurostar trains.

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Colin Rosenstiel

On 10 Jan, 21:47, wrote:
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(MIG) wrote:
The semicircle between the main lines and the spur that used to go
over the bridge as the up track from East Putney seems to be an
inaccessible wilderness and still enclosed as part of the railway.

I thought there used to be allotments there. There were some at Clapham
Junction on the curve from the WLE to the Up Windsor Line until the curve
was reinstated for Eurostar trains.

Unless they are directly accessed only from private back gardens, I
don't know how one can get there. It would be like an extra garden
for them. However, I don't think there's currently any barrier where
the line used to branch off and it looks like it's all railway land.

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(MIG) wrote:

On 10 Jan, 21:47, wrote:
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(MIG) wrote:
The semicircle between the main lines and the spur that used to go
over the bridge as the up track from East Putney seems to be an
inaccessible wilderness and still enclosed as part of the railway.

I thought there used to be allotments there. There were some at
Clapham Junction on the curve from the WLE to the Up Windsor Line
until the curve was reinstated for Eurostar trains.

Unless they are directly accessed only from private back gardens, I
don't know how one can get there. It would be like an extra garden
for them. However, I don't think there's currently any barrier where
the line used to branch off and it looks like it's all railway land.

You could well be right. I've not been that way in daylight recently. I
just have this mental image of allotments there, in the days when the
bridge was still in use.

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Colin Rosenstiel