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An estuarial town blessed with three stations, two major railway bridges, and one additional line already lifted by the time of the map. Where is it?
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A 2-EPB is passing a power station. Where is it? And what is the power station now used for?
Answer: Waddon Marsh, Croydon in 1968. The power station site is now an IKEA store, with just the chimneys retained (and topped out in IKEA colours). Congratulations are due to the following for their correct answers: Colin Penfold, John Lacy, Phil Deaves, John Czyrko, Richard Hart, Howard Cook, Simon Wass, Chris Neale, Dave Goodyear, Paul Hopper, Michael Willsher, John Musselwhite, Jules Curran, Jim Allwood, Chris Gibbard, Neil Kearns, Richard Weller, Blair Robinson, Leslie Braithwaite
Image credit: Keith Landon RCTS Collection
Unit 5791 is one of 15 Class 416/2 built at Eastleigh in 1955 for Newcastle-upon-Tyne to South Shields services. The line was de-electrified in 1963 and the units sent south (when the unit number was added). The Driving Motor Brake on this unit (No. 65321) spent some time after withdrawal in departmental service as 930053. Now owned by the Southern Electric Railway Association, it is located at the Battlefield Line in the E Midlands.
The Croydon B power station opened in 1950 and closed in 1984. It was mostly coal-fired, supplied by rail, but had some oil-fired turbines for surges. A gas-powered station opened in 1990 to the left of Croydon B.
The bridge carries the A23 Purley Way. This road opened in 1925 to bypass Croydon, and was instrumental in opening up the Waddon Marsh area for industry.
The railway is, of course, now part of the Croydon Tramlink. The 1968 timetable shows a half-hourly service, and nothing on Sundays. The 2023 photo is taken at nearby Ampere Way (in the opposite direction). Image credit: Leslie Braithwaite.
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