High Level line to Crystal Palace

Walk preview

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   Step 1: We start at Forest Hill station, and will finish on Crystal Palace Parade, where the Crystal Palace High Level station was built in 1865

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   Step 2: First we need to walk to the former location of the railway bridge over Lordship Lane. It’s by the nature trail at the Horniman Museum

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   Step 3: Carry on up the hill

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   Step 4: Turn into the museum gardens and walk down the hill

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   Step 5: The first sign of the Crystal Palace High level railway is the compost heaps at the Horniman, constructed from old wooden railway sleepers

6. Step 6: We’ll walk along inside the gardens to the new Horniman Gardens entrance to the old railway embankment, which runs alongside Wood Vale