Forest Hill
Forest Hill, northbound platform, seen from a speeding Thameslink service from Cambridge to Brighton, on the morning of Monday, 14th June 2021. This station in the south-east London suburbs was opened as Dartmouth Arms with the London & Croydon Railway on 5th June 1839 and renamed Forest Hill in 1845. It was rebuilt by the LBSCR when the line was quadrupled in the early 1850s with four platforms, two side on the slow tracks and a narrow central island platform on the fast tracks. The station was badly damaged by bombing in WWII but was patched up and survived in a semi-derelict state until BR demolished the buildings and replaced them with a CLASP style prefabricated building in 1972. The central island platform had been demolished circa 1967.
Location: Forest Hill
Original line: London and Croydon Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: London Area Stations 2009-2023
Date: 14/06/2021
Image number: 77268
