Vintage image of West Croydon - late-Fifties
This is an image from David Bradley's
excellent website showing a
Route 630
and a Route 654 trolleybus crossing London Road/North End at Station Road, close to the
West Croydon BR station.
David recalls that the photograph was secured in early 1959 from a
barmaid's bedroom window at The Railway Bell Hotel pub on the
south-west corner on the famous junction, "with no thought of alcohol;
[we] simply asked if we could take some photographs from one of the
upper floor windows.
"This location is quite unique, for in the 1940s it was the only
place in London where all forms of surface transport could have
photographed: trams, trolleybuses, central buses, country buses, Green
Line coaches, steam freight and electric suburban trains. The only thing
unseen would have been the underground."