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Walworth Road station also has another claim to fame. It was a coal depot operated by the Midland Railway. This curious facility, well away from its home railway, provided a means of delivering coal direct to consumers in South London.

Being on a viaduct, coal was able to be dropped into carriers' carts below and the depot remained in use until the late 1960s.

In many ways, this link was a forerunner to today's Thameslink passenger service.
A recent event, part of the campaign to reopen Camberwell station
Task one - reopen Camberwell Station

Task two - to find the space to get on the train during the morning peak
@Still anon
There seems little chance of squeezing any more trains on the line, or making the existing ones longer, unless a complete rebuild of Herne Hill and Tulse Hill can be done, not only to separate conflicting flows to allow more trains through, but to move the junctions at each end of the platforms further apart so the platforms can be extended.
"most of the people who'd mourn its loss don't yet have children"

Most of them will have grown up and had children of their own long before this project gets off (into?) the ground
What's the point in Greater London furthest from a station? A quick glance at a map and the biggest void in the network looks like the Kingston loop (i.e. Richmond Park and Wimbledon Common), but even then the maximum distance is only about two miles.

dg writes: Grays Lane in Cudham is over four miles from a station. See post here.
Timbo - exactly, Loughborough Junction isn't that far away either.
@Timbo
I don't think anyone is asking for more trains. I am Camberwell worker just existing ones to call at a reopened station - namely 2 x h Sevenoaks and 2 x h Wimbledon loop.
I think timbo's point was that without more trains, no-one will be able to get on during rush hour. There is no point spending money opening a station if it cannot be used.

I have no personal knowledge as to whether the trains currently passing through this station site are in fact so jam-packed. But that has been repeatedly claimed, hence the reference to more or longer trains.
Asylum Road is such a good name for a station that there should be no further debate about the location.
A whole mile from the nearest station? How awful! One should try living in the 'burbs, where a station a mere mile away is considered right on your doorstep!
@Le ver - I was following "Still anon's" - "Task two - to find the space to get on the train during the morning peak" Trains between Herne Hill and Blackfrairs are rammed solid in the rush hour. There is simply no ppoint in calling at any intermediate stations if no-one can get on.
(See the similar arguments about opening a station at Blackfriars n the Waterloo & City Line)
@Geoff
"the biggest void in the network looks like the Kingston loop (i.e. Richmond Park and Wimbledon Common)"

Neither deer nor Wombles have any desire to commute into London, so the absence of a train service in those areas is no a great hardship.
My understanding was that once the Bakerloo extension is both approved and confirmed to be skipping Camberwell, then TfL would very much like to re-open the station. But I wouldn't expect much progress before then.
While the Post Office has a delivery depot in Camberwell Staton Road close to the bus garage, Camberwell bus garage has always been a bus garage. It was opened in 1914 but was immediately requisitioned by the War Office for the duration of WW1 and has been a bus garage ever since 1919. Significantly damaged by bombing during WW2, it was repaired during 1950 and this section can be identified by the yellow stock bricks used at the time.
Having had a look in the LHRG book for January 1913-February 1915, Camberwell is shown as opening on 29th June 1914 and closing 11th November the same year, three new routes were introduced from 29th June and the 37 and 43A were changed.

Later in the year all the new routes were withdrawn prior to closure as part of the wider wartime cuts, so I assume Camberwell must had operated something.

Several other garages were also listed as closed/taken over by the War Office, Catford (AN), Fulham (F), Hounslow (AV), Kilburn (K), Kingston (AH), Shepherds Bush (S), Tottenham (AR), Plumstead (AM), Walworth (AG).

Although rebuilt, AR, AV and S are still with us, AN is the current TL (I think the 'TL' code stands for either Tilling Lewisham or Tilling Ladywell), AM became a L.T. garage until replaced by the current Plumstead in 1981, not sure about the rest, perhaps F, K, AH and AG weren't returned, the F code was reused for Putney Bridge when the LGOC took it over in 1920.










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