I have shared images of this painting before, but in the meantime its original creator kindly sent me a good quality print of it, which means I can now show it in a bit more detail. The painting depicts Coldharbour Lane in the 1950s. At this point the entrance to the station was still accessed via a small brick extension built onto the side of the viaduct - where the arrows on the "booking office" sign point. Ashley Best has told me that he remembers visiting the location when preparing the painting but also used a number of secondary sources, and he doesn't remember in exactly what year he painted it.

Loughborough Junction station, in its current form, is 100 years old this year - I recently added a new page to the main website covering its history since 1925. Quite a bit of what was built in 1925 has since been removed, but looking carefully it's possible to see plenty of details which remain. Doing this is made easier by looking at drawings held in the Network Rail Corporate Archive - drawings produced for the original construction.

Earlier this month, the Lift Up LJ Campaign was launched outside Loughborough Junction railway station by a group of locals in an effort to provide the community with a fit for purpose, accessible …

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The advert above was placed in the "Camberwell and Peckham Times" 100 years ago on the 11th of July 1925, by the Southern railway company. It advertises a major change to services across part of their network: steam trains were out and new, faster and longer electric trains were in. For Loughborough Junction this didn't just mean a new timetable and new trains, it meant a rebuilt station. Several things changed: the curved platforms which were used by trains heading towards Denmark Hill were closed for good. The platforms on the "main line" for trains between Herne Hill and Blackfriars were rationalised, resuting in a single, wider and longer, island platform with new station buildings on it.

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Yesterday I was kindly allowed up to the roof terrace on the top of the Higgs Yard tower. Here are some photos of a very familiar area, from an unfamiliar angle. You can click on the images to enlarge...

For some time I have wondered why, visible here at the end of Rathgar Road, there is this concrete-framed structure inserted into the viaduct underneath Loughborough Junction station: This is roughly ...

This weekend, the 18th/19th January 2025, a section of Coldharbour Lane was closed to traffic. This was to allow the delivery of a large electrical transformer unit to the National Grid substation…