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Pictured above is Brixton Railway Station,\u00a0photographed\u00a0on\u00a011th December 1960.<\/p>\n
The tracks to the left run to Loughborough Junction, while the tracks nearest the camera are on the London Victoria to Orpington\u00a0line.<\/p>\n
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Opened in 1862 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LC&DR) and originally called ‘Brixton and South Stockwell’, the\u00a0station\u00a0once offered an extensive \u00a0set of connections.<\/p>\n
Passengers on the high level station could enjoy services to Moorgate to London Victoria via Holborn Viaduct railway station, Camberwell New Road and Brixton and South Stockwell to Grosvenor Road.<\/p>\n
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A similar view from June 2011 shows that much of the station remains intact, although a ton of ugly metal fencing has sprung up on the Orpington platform. The overhead bridge has been replaced, and the station\u00a0building\u00a0chimneys have vanished.<\/p>\n
As is the fashion, the large, easily read station sign has been replaced by little squinty signs that are just about impossible to read from a passing train.<\/p>\n
See how the station looked in this 1950 video<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 1986, three bronze statues<\/a> were installed on the\u00a0station\u00a0and these continue to enjoy regular artistic additions.<\/p>\n The map above\u00a0shows\u00a0the routes\u00a0available in 1914 – note the lost station of\u00a0East Brixton<\/a>. Click on the map for a larger version.<\/p>\n More info: <\/strong>Brixton history<\/a> – railways features<\/a>.<\/p>\n [1960 pic:\u00a0B Brooksbank<\/a> – wikipedia article<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pictured above is Brixton Railway Station,\u00a0photographed\u00a0on\u00a011th December 1960. The tracks to the left run to Loughborough Junction, while the tracks nearest the camera are on the London Victoria to Orpington\u00a0line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,17,193,90],"tags":[1191,1200],"class_list":["post-4464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-photos","category-places","category-railways","tag-brixton","tag-railways"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-railway-station-1960.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1a0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4466,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions\/4466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Brixton](\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-railway-station-2011-1.jpg\")
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