Bricklayers' Arms station

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Bricklayers' Arms was a train station in London , also known as the "Great West End Station". It was located on the corner of Mandela Way and Old Kent Road in the borough of Southwark .

history

The station was opened in 1844 by the London and Greenwich Railway and the London and Croydon Railway . The next stops were New Cross , New Cross Gate and Deptford . There were express trains on the South Eastern Main Line to southern England and local trains to the south-eastern suburbs of London. In 1852 the last regular passenger train went to Bricklayers' Arms, the last freight train in 1983.

The entrance building was designed by Lewis Cubitt , who also designed King's Cross station . The building had ornamental wall arches on the front and on the side, in the middle an Italian-style bell tower crowned the building. The platform hall had six tracks with a departure and an arrival platform and four sidings in the middle. At both ends of the platform, a turntable with a diameter of 12 feet (3.66 m) was installed per track .

Queen Victoria used the orphaned train station for her court train, on March 7, 1863, Princess Alexandra of Denmark traveled with Edward, Prince of Wales of Bricklayers Arms (who had been richly decorated for the occasion) on the court train to Gravesend .

Bricklayers Arms was the predecessor of Charing Cross and London Bridge stations . After their construction, Bricklayers' Arms, which was supposed to be a large city train station, proved superfluous. During the First World War, the station had another passenger duty. British soldiers used it as a military station for trains to the ports on the North Sea and the English Channel .

The station was demolished at the beginning of 1990, today there is an industrial park on the site. Today only a pub , which is located near the original train station, reminds of the name .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '33 "  N , 0 ° 4' 55.9"  W.