ELMERS END TO ADDISCOMBE (SE&CR)

7th March 2006

This SE&CR branch ran to Addiscombe Road (later just Addiscombe) from Elmers end via Woodside Junction. The line from Woodside to Selsdon Road closed in the 1980s. Most of the branch was absorbed by the Croydon Tramlink but the final stretch to the terminus was abandoned. Most of the abandoned trackbed seems destined to be built over and indeed the terminus has already disappeared under a housing development.
Woodside was the only intermediate station branch. It reopened as a tram stop in 2000. The platforms were demolished and the building is boarded up and disused.
Engineer's Line Reference: EEA

Woodside. The station building seen from the roadside. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ347671	Woodside. The main entrance at the roadside. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ347671	Woodside. The doorway from the booking hall to the up side stairway. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ347671	Woodside. Window detail on the main building. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ347671
Woodside. Windows on the station building. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ347671	Woodside. The up side stairway. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ347671	Woodside. Site of the former up platform. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ347671	Woodside. The staircases leading to the platforms. The nearest one served the down platform and is now disused. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ347671
Woodside. The station building seen from track level. It appears to be unused. 29th June 2002. OS: TQ347671	Woodside. Looking towards the station building. The platforms were situated on the left and right of this shot. The grey board on the building covers the former clock. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ347671	Woodside. General view of the tram stop. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ347671	Woodside. General view of the tram stop. 29th June 2002. OS: TQ347671
Looking towards Addiscombe from the platform ends at Woodside. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ347671	The site of Woodside Junction looking back towards Woodside station. The Tramlink line can be seen in the background. 29th June 2002. OS: TQ343668	Looking down the abandoned trackbed towards the terminus from the first road overbridge after Woodside Junction. 29th June 2002. OS: TQ343668	The site of Addiscombe station frontage, now replaced by a residential development. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ335662
The station frontage in 1997. (Picture courtesy of Richard Boyd).	Evidence of the former concourse roof on a surviving side wall at Addiscombe. 25th January 2006. If anyone can provide pictures of the station prior to demolition I would be grateful. OS: TQ335662	The site of the concourse with part of the station wall behind. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ335662	The concourse in 1997. (Picture courtesy of Richard Boyd).
The site of the platforms at Addiscombe. 25th January 2006. OS: TQ335662	A similar view of the station from 1997, shortly before closure. (Picture courtesy of Richard Boyd).	The platform ends looking towards Elmers End in 1987. (Picture courtesy of Richard Boyd).	Three Edmondson severed half tickets from the line.