East London's Lost Stations
VHS Colour Sound 1999 57:00
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Summary: A video exploring east London's lost railway stations.
Title number: 2994
LSA ID: LSA/3935
Description: Jim Connor, the Stepney born editor of magazine The London Railway Record presents this guide to some of the forgotten remnants of east London's railway history. Mixing old photographs, archive footage and new film of surviving railway architecture and furniture, the video evokes a lost world or urban transportation. Beginning at the Great Eastern main line at Liverpool Street, the video takes in the remains of the stations of Bishopgate Low Level, Globe Road & Devonshire Street and Coborn Road. The video moves on to Stratford Market station and the new Jubilee Line Extension depot nearby and Burdett Road. Carrying on, on the Great Eastern line, there's a visit to Lea Bridge station before turning back to Bow Road Station on the Blackwall Extension Railway. A trip along the Fenchurch Street Line takes in several former stations and memories of the internal railway system at Beckton Gas Works. On the old North London Railway and the new Docklands Light Railway there are memories of Poplar line stations. The video concludes with a journey on the last passenger train from Island Gardens High Level Station to Poplar early in the morning of Saturday 9th January 1999, Jim Connor leading the passengers in the song 'Auld Lang Syne'.
Credits: Director: Jim Connor; Film Maker: Wilf Watters; Film Maker: Jim Connor; Film Maker: Keith C Romig; Film Maker: Ken Attwood; Archive film: Roy Hubble; Slides and Stills: Jim Connor; Research: Jim Connor; Script: Jim Connor; Presenter: Jim Connor; Editor: Wilf Watters; Producer: Wilf Watters
Keywords: Railways
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Tower Hamlets; Stepney; Dogs, Isle of
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