When you lived in Well Hall your chosen railway station was always going to be Well Hall which today might be described as an Interchange, given that along with the trains there were heaps of buses which terminated next door.
But today it is Mottingham which has caught my attention. It is a destination I have only visited once but can’t remember why.
According to my Wikipedia, “the station was first opened by the South Eastern Railway on 1 September 1866 as Eltham for Mottingham.
In 1892 it was renamed Eltham & Mottingham.
In 1927 it became Mottingham”.*
And it’s a station of many parts, having acquired a goods yard around 1900 it lost it in 1968 , along with its station box the following year.
But the upside ticket office has a mixture of structures, with “the white clapboard dating from the original station of 1866, [a] brown brick construction of 1957 and sliding doors installed in 1988”.
And to follow up on the interchange link there are a series of buses close by one of which will have taken me back to Well Hall.
Doesn’t quite answer why I would have taken the train to Mottingham to see our Jill but I will let that hang in the air, although I am happy to receive suggestions on a used railway ticket, circa 1990.
Already located on the blog are some stories of Well Hall Railway Station and its neighbour Eltham Park both of which are babies compared to Mottingham which has outlasted them both.
So with Jill’s help and her camera I will soon be back with more railway stations from Eltham.
Location; Mottingham
Pictures; sunny wet days on Mottingham Railway Station, 2026, from the collection of Jill Goldsmith
*Mottingham railway station, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mottingham_railway_station
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