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The church is in St John's Vale near the junction with Lewisham Way/Loampit Hill (A20). St John's station is two minutes walk down St John's Vale.
(My secondary school was a further 5mins walk away in Ashmead Road and backed onto the railway between St John's and New Cross stations - great for trainspotting! I'd been there in the first year since Sept '57. The day of the crash we were sent home an hour early because of the fog's density.)
There is a book "St. John's Lewisham - 50 years on - Restoring the traffic" written by Peter Taplow, and recently published by Oakwood Press (Series X87, ISBN 978 0 85361 669 6). Despite the last part of the title, the book still deals very much with the actual crash, the latter half being the story of how the lines were cleared and services restored. At the back of the book is a fold-out plan of all the tracks and signals in the Lewisham area. Warmly recommended reading.
Regards,
John
(My secondary school was a further 5mins walk away in Ashmead Road and backed onto the railway between St John's and New Cross stations - great for trainspotting! I'd been there in the first year since Sept '57. The day of the crash we were sent home an hour early because of the fog's density.)
There is a book "St. John's Lewisham - 50 years on - Restoring the traffic" written by Peter Taplow, and recently published by Oakwood Press (Series X87, ISBN 978 0 85361 669 6). Despite the last part of the title, the book still deals very much with the actual crash, the latter half being the story of how the lines were cleared and services restored. At the back of the book is a fold-out plan of all the tracks and signals in the Lewisham area. Warmly recommended reading.
Regards,
John