Station Road in South Norwood, looking down towards Norwood Junction station, c1920, which opened in 1859. The pedestrian sub-way under the station opened in 1912. This subway was innovative in that it was an early, if not the first, use of reinforced concrete as a tunnel lining. The deep-bored London tube tunnels from the 1890s onwards had all been lined with more expensive cast-iron segments. The circular-section 84m/97½ yards long tunnel was driven, apparently through London Clay, below the station buildings and all seven platforms and six currently operating through lines without interrupting train services, under powers conferred by a London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Act of 1911 With its west end in Station Road, and its east end communicating with public footpaths to Carmichael Road and Clifford Road, the subway completely bypasses the stations own internal subway linking its several platforms and front and rear entrances.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:57:26 +0000
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