Heritage

Maps and Site links can be found on this link.

Photographs of the rail line and park taken from the Blackhorse Lane bridge.

A Movie of the last train journey from Woodside station to Addiscombe Station.

The Ghost of Addiscombe Railway Station.

Local Heritage of Addiscombe.

Station Ghost

Addiscombe Railway Station was listed as pne of the top ten most haunted Stations in the UK

Reports include the following :

The carriage sheds and surrounding area at Addiscombe Railway Station, formerly in the district of Croydon, London, UK was plagued by ghosts before its demolition in 2001 to make way for the area's new tramline.

A train driver killed on the line in the early 1900's roamed the area and it is perhaps he who is the grey figure with blurred features seen walking among the sheds. Aspecially around siding number 4 where a water boiler had exploded in the past, killing workers. The area around that siding was said to be colder than elsewhere on the railway land.

The same figure has been seen since the demolition, viewed from a safe distance from behind a fence in nearby Capri Road.

Was he the ex-train driver responsible for moving trains in the dead of night, when no one should have been working ?

Night watchmen have said that even the cat would not go outside when strange noises were heard in the sheds.

When contractors were building the houses in what is know known as East India Way, they experienced severe problems which they put done to the Ghost and a lot of bad luck.

One of these issues resulted in the heavy diggers sinking into the mud over night and having to be rescued.