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[jbphoto]

Is it true that we are now officially not getting our railway station back?

This would have been ideal as the tramlink station. Rather than building that in the park, they could have tunneled under the road, and if they'd only left a clear route to the tunnel mouth on College road, the tram could have gone all the way to peckham and beyond! A lot of ifs I know...

[Dazza]

Our station ? Never knew I owned a train station.

[Mah-in]

Our station ? Never knew I owned a train station.

Crystal Palace Station. The one we are not allowed to use. The one with the stupid green annex on the side, with a door so narrow, I'm surprised it meets "health and safety".

It's an absolutely ridiculous farce why we are not allowed to use the ticket hall.

[Summit Lover]

Does anyone know why the green CP station extension was built and used in the first place?

(Phil Solo ..... wherefore art thou..... )

[Mah-in]

Does anyone know why the green CP station extension was built and used in the first place?

(Phil Solo ..... wherefore art thou..... )

I couldn't get an answer to this about a year ago. The Ticket Hall sits there empty, and we have to do the ridiculous upstairs downstairs business, and people have given up complaining.

As a side issue, do any other Overground Users do what I do when coming home? Once this side of Surrey Quays, I look at the orange signs for a Victoria train. There is often one only minutes after, so I get off the Overground and onto the Southern Rail Victoria train. Coming into CP at Platform 4 instead of 5 is worth a couple of minutes wait if you are traveling with tools, baby buggy, or elderly companions.

The people who insist on treating us with this contempt have never carried anything heavy up those stairs, past our Ticket Hall, and back down the other side, only to have to climb back up again. I can tell you that for sure!

[andreas]

Does anyone know why the green CP station extension was built and used in the first place?

(Phil Solo ..... wherefore art thou..... )

I am pretty sure it's the late 1980s. There is a plaque in the ticket hall area of the station to commemorate some non-event of a restoration. The on-the-cheap references to the Crystal Palace in the design of what is basically an outsize garden conservatory testify to the values of that decade.

[Summit Lover]

I am pretty sure it's the late 1980s. There is a plaque in the ticket hall area of the station to commemorate some non-event of a restoration. The on-the-cheap references to the Crystal Palace in the design of what is basically an outsize garden conservatory testify to the values of that decade.

To be honest, I don't think that it is ugly as such (I have seen far worse!). It justs seems a bit pointless

[Mah-in]

To be honest, I don't think that it is ugly as such (I have seen far worse!). It justs seems a bit pointless

I'm afraid I have to disagree, because it makes a really obvious poke at the design of the original Crystal Palace. (but it's green, and naff)

And there it sits, preventing us from entering a part of our history that is actually still standing, but someone would rather store drink bottles in it, or just leave it empty for fun, to annoy us, while we climb and descend stairs, and then climb again.

No, it's ugly. Both physically, and in what it represents.

[Summit Lover]

I'm afraid I have to disagree, because it makes a really obvious poke at the design of the original Crystal Palace. (but it's green, and naff)

And there it sits, preventing us from entering a part of our history that is actually still standing, but someone would rather store drink bottles in it, or just leave it empty for fun, to annoy us, while we climb and descend stairs, and then climb again.

No, it's ugly. Both physically, and in what it represents.

Happy to agree to disagree on its appearance, although I think the original ticket office is far more attractive.

I do agree re the annoyance of the stairs though.

[Dazza]

I think its the early 80's not the lat 80's when this hall was closed down.

This hall was where rosebys the auctioneers started up but are now based in west norwood also has the occasional illegal rave !

Dazza

[Fang]

I think its the early 80's not the lat 80's when this hall was closed down.

This hall was where rosebys the auctioneers started up but are now based in west norwood also has the occasional illegal rave !

Dazza

As was the Subway, on more than one occasion.

[Mah-in]

As was the Subway, on more than one occasion.

Let's have another Rave!!!!

[Ozzie]

Does anyone know how the work on the subway under CP parade is getting on. Thought i'd read somewhere that they were trying to coincide opening it to the public with the festival?

[Caradeuc]

Hello
How can I see that beautiful vaulted subway under the CP Parade? Is there any access?

[Summit Lover]

Hello
How can I see that beautiful vaulted subway under the CP Parade? Is there any access?

There is no public access at the moment sadly, although there is a campaign to get the subway re-opened. We managed to have a look by clambering over the wall that runs along Crystal Palace Parade just down from Farquhar Rd and making our way down to the entrance to the tunnels - not necessarily advocating this as it may be trespassing I guess...

Here's a link with some more info http://www.disused-s...vel/index.shtml

Edited by Summit Lover, 09 July 2012 - 02:23 PM.