Hiya peeps
This was a little visit I did back last year and have wanted to go back for a second look (with a tripod) but have never got around to it. Rumour has it the place has now got cameras, but then again I’ve heard it hasn’t, so a second look is on the cards! (pm if you wana cum along).
I’ve found it very difficult to find any info on the place, infact when I first went there last year I googled it and no reports from any forums came up but now theres quiet a few so maybe some more info will seep into general knowledge. All I can say about the place is that it was a carriage maintenance shed and a parcel depot that once belonged to good old, or not so good old, British Rail.
It was taken over by EWS, English, Welsh and Scottish Railways in 1996, which then later became DB Schenker Rail UK in 2009. There are some newspapers in the staff rooms dated during 2004 so maybe thats when it finally closed. When I visited the site the place was in full leaf and looked more like one of the Victorian glasshouses at Kew....I have wondered, now that there are some posts online if the place will get used as a huge weed farm by some greedy “gangsters” if they sort the ventilation out.
So here’s some pics....
Remember folks trespassing on the railways is a criminal offence (not ya usual civil jobby we all do without thinking....this slipped me mind at the time but think about it if you got responsibilities...”if we got wot??” i hear u sigh)
The roof tops of the carriage depot
My first view of the place as i got down from the roof...i don’t like stepping off the kerb so this was out of my comfort zone as far as climbing goes.....respect to crane crews, how DO you do it!!
The glass roof was in amazing condition, just a bit grimy but no broken panes at the time...unusual for anywhere in central London that’s derelict!
On-camera flash, apologies for big shadow from lens
I haven’t seen this logo for years!
Bits left behind in one of the offices
I didn’t ignore this sign...i took their word for it
EWS...English lion, Welsh dragon and Scottish stag...i like the simplicity of the logo
a mental film....the scary bit is thats its true
That phantom chair dude went berserk, he was lookin for an asylum corridor but could only find this wall
Pretty....a weed is just a flower in the wrong place....and i can’t arf talk sum shit
Hope you liked lookin at the pics...happy and safe splorin folks!
This was a little visit I did back last year and have wanted to go back for a second look (with a tripod) but have never got around to it. Rumour has it the place has now got cameras, but then again I’ve heard it hasn’t, so a second look is on the cards! (pm if you wana cum along).
I’ve found it very difficult to find any info on the place, infact when I first went there last year I googled it and no reports from any forums came up but now theres quiet a few so maybe some more info will seep into general knowledge. All I can say about the place is that it was a carriage maintenance shed and a parcel depot that once belonged to good old, or not so good old, British Rail.
It was taken over by EWS, English, Welsh and Scottish Railways in 1996, which then later became DB Schenker Rail UK in 2009. There are some newspapers in the staff rooms dated during 2004 so maybe thats when it finally closed. When I visited the site the place was in full leaf and looked more like one of the Victorian glasshouses at Kew....I have wondered, now that there are some posts online if the place will get used as a huge weed farm by some greedy “gangsters” if they sort the ventilation out.
So here’s some pics....
Remember folks trespassing on the railways is a criminal offence (not ya usual civil jobby we all do without thinking....this slipped me mind at the time but think about it if you got responsibilities...”if we got wot??” i hear u sigh)
The roof tops of the carriage depot
My first view of the place as i got down from the roof...i don’t like stepping off the kerb so this was out of my comfort zone as far as climbing goes.....respect to crane crews, how DO you do it!!
The glass roof was in amazing condition, just a bit grimy but no broken panes at the time...unusual for anywhere in central London that’s derelict!
On-camera flash, apologies for big shadow from lens
I haven’t seen this logo for years!
Bits left behind in one of the offices
I didn’t ignore this sign...i took their word for it
EWS...English lion, Welsh dragon and Scottish stag...i like the simplicity of the logo
a mental film....the scary bit is thats its true
That phantom chair dude went berserk, he was lookin for an asylum corridor but could only find this wall
Pretty....a weed is just a flower in the wrong place....and i can’t arf talk sum shit
Hope you liked lookin at the pics...happy and safe splorin folks!