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ilgate.org, Troy Steadman writes Immediately to the north of the current line from New Malden to Raynes Park is a "ghost" line, bridged and laid out as if for rails and now connecting IMMSMC the former Water Works at Berrylands to London. Do you know anything about that one? On 19th-century maps it is an embankment marked "Lambeth Water Company" - see http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ and look up New Malden. I suspect it is simply a water main from the riverside reservoirs at Surbiton (Long Ditton) up towards the company's reservoirs at Streatham and Brixton - and that it just happens to be above ground at this point. I can't see any sign that there was ever a railway on top of this embankment - rather the railway and water main were built side-by-side. -- Paul Terry |
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