The Lost CRYSTAL PALACE Stations - What Remains?
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Join me for a full explore of the remains and Hidden Secrets and History of The Crystal Palace, this is a 3 part series looking at everything related to the palace and it's park. This huge building formed part of London history for many decades.
In this video, we explore the various railways that brought passengers to the Crystal Palace, and also take a look at some of the experimental railways to appear in the park. From the Pneumatic Railway which was basically a Victorian Hyperloop system to Kearney's High Speed Railway, the Gliding Railway, Mountain Railway & Topsy-Turvy Railway.
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Crystal Palace Park
The Crystal Palace Museum
The Crystal Palace Subway
The Crystal Palace Foundation
Melvyn Harrison
Xenophon.org.uk
Disused-Railways.org.uk
HistoricGosport.uk
Sydenham Town Forum
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0:00 Introduction
0:34 CRYSTAL PALACE LOW LEVEL STATION
1:25 CRYSTAL PALACE HIGH LEVEL STATION
4:48 CRYSTAL PALACE SUBWAY
7:43 ATMOSPHERIC/PNEUMATIC RAILWAY
14:06 KEARNEY'S HIGH SPEED RAILWAY
16:36 OTHER RAILWAYS AT CRYSTAL PALACE
18:10 Outro
As a historian, I cannot begin to express how amazed I am at the level of work you put in your videos/research! Thank you so much for providing this level of dedication, effort, and quality work to this American who does not have the ability to visit London at the moment!!!
Wow, thank you!
What a brilliant series, love the now and then comparison pictures fading into each other, outstanding work👍
i used to live in farguhar road as a child & a teenager & i remember 'puffer' trains waking me up early in the morning as the front engines were reversed onto a turntable in a siding which ran parallel to the road; i could see the trains from my house; the bridge was further up the road to my right where there was a bend in the road, which joined up with crystal palace parade, where many buses terminated; i used to play in crystal palace park & the woods which were on the other side of the station wall.
@@normansmithers4465 Eye witness then mate ? Fantastic 🥰
@@Dan23_7 cheers! i lived in farquhar road from when i was born on november 7th 1945, until may 1977, when i was 31!
crystal palace was my favourite park because it had so much to see, including in the mid 60's, an athletic track, swimming pool , a motor racing track + several soccer pitches!
one of my neighbours was british athlete, alan pascoe, while my dad knew dual world motor car rider & motor cyclist, john surtees!
Thanks for watching.
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You make me feel nostalgic towards an era that I've never even known. 🥰🥰🥰
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I don't know why, but for years and years now I've been so obsessed and enamored by the Crystal Palace, even though I've never stepped foot on English soil.
Amazing video, it really speaks to me. Hopefully I can one day make the trip to the palace grounds. I can't wait to watch the rest of the series. Brilliant job, thank you.
Me too. Thanks for watching
A fantastic series, brilliantly researched and executed, especially the overlay imagery! I predict big things for this channel :)
Thank you very much for a great series. I was lucky enough to live close to Penge Gate for over 20 years and spent many happy times in Crystal Palace Park. I would highly recommend a visit to Crystal Palace (Low Level) Station even if you are not intending to travel by train to see how a beautiful station can be restored and bought into the 21st century. Also if you ever get the chance to follow the disused railway from the High Level Station it is a great walk with loads to see. There are 2 tunnels (Paxton and Crescent Woods) which are not open but you can visit their portals. Upper Sydenham Station still exists as a private residence and in Sydenham Hill Woods as well as one of the portals to Crescent Wood tunnel there is a footbridge called Cox's Walk which used to cross the railway. In addition the old trackbed at Lordship Lane Station within the grounds of Horniman Museum has been turned into a nature reserve.
Thanks once again for bringing back happy memories.
An absolutely amazing trio of documentaries. There is a tunnel entrance I remember (1960's) that you have not shown that was near the bus terminal and public toilets that went underground. These 3 videos are msm broadcast quality.
Thanks for watching.
I admire how you align your perspective with the original old images before you start recording and how they blend into those images.
Just a fantastic series, thank you! I’ve long been fascinated by the Crystal Palace. What a shame they did not preserve the site better and simply bulldozed the remains away. To this day when you visit the site it feels quite ghostly as if there was something much more important there before. I have friends who remember their parents seeing the blaze in 1936 and keeping lumps of melted glass as souvenirs.
Glad you enjoyed it
It always amazes me when you do the fade in pictures, how much places have changed but more so how it hasn't. hard to believe that some places remain exactly the same after so much time passing. great vid as always! :)
Thanks for watching. More to come.
As the saying goes, the more things change the more they stay the same.
I really admire the way you research these and manage to shoot and overlay images so accurately. This was fascinating.
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Even that I have never seen any of the locations you are visiting, it's very exiting to see. So much history.
I love the fadings from past to present, thinking it must take a lot of effort making them.
Thanks for watching.
Great video!
You’ve captured some great details and shown the old with the new very clearly, allowing the viewer to make sense of locations. Love it!
Thanks for the fantastic series on the Crystal palace. I grew up in West Dulwich and in the 60s these underground cellars by the railway station were available to us kids (if you knew how to get in) and these were our playgrounds (until we were thrown out!) The whole of the Crystal Palace site was an amazing place but I didn't appreciate this at the time and I wish they had kept more of the original. I used to see the motor racing on the old track - very loud! Thanks for bringing back these memories.
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Loved that, I lived in Crystal Palace as a kid in the late 70s to early 80s,me and my mates used to mess around in the old train tunnels opposite crystal Palace parade.Grew up just off Gypsy hill in plane tree walk this has brought back so many memories thank you.
Thanks for watching
I'm consistently amazed that they never reconstructed the crystal palace. It's known of around the world and has such a rich history. Excellent video.
There was a proposal in the late naughties from a Chinese developer to do so but it never materialised as so many schemes from Boris’s regime.
Thanks for watching.
Just stumbled across your videos can I just say amazing work well done! Give this man a series on TV
Fantastic series once again Darren ! Wouldn’t it be marvellous to see this palace in the flesh.
Thanks for watching. More to come.
A brilliantly fascinating series about Crystal Palace. When Will was at senior school in the early 80’s he had a teacher telling his class that he was a historian and he and a group of fellow historians were looking for the lost train carriage which they believed to be underground in Crystal Palace Park but as far as he is aware, they never found it and he’d heard no reference to it until your video which brought back some amazing memories of things he’d long since forgotten 😀👍🏼
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Thanks for creating this fantastic series. This is my favourite park and whilst I knew it had a large amount of history, this truly blew my mind. Thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely loved this series Darren. As mentioned the fading in and out of old and new images is excellent and love the sad haunting music attached to them. Such a shame I wasn't around to see such an amazing building, but your videos have inspired me to go and see what remains for myself. Thank you
Thanks for watching. More to come.
You just can’t imagine that beautiful place no longer there. So interesting to learn all about this fascinating piece of history. What a work and research Darren. Thank you for excellent work and filming. I would never have known about this place if not for you.
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Glad I found your channel even 1 year after video release. That last transition showed true scale of it and had no idea of the innovations it held. Would have been a beautiful place to visit in its glory days.
Excellent. A real class production. As mentioned previously the overlays really add to the then and now aspect. Very professional. Ive been waiting for something like this on the Palace so thanks. Couldn’t have wished for anything better.
Thanks for watching. More to come.
I love the overlay of old photos, it really helps to get a sense of the sheer scale of the palace. It looks like it was absolutely enormous, almost like some sort of steampunk alien mothership had landed. Such a shame it was never rebuilt.
Thanks mate.
Loved every minute. I lived 5 mins from the Thicket Road entrance and this park was our playground. Such an amazing series we’ll done. Your research was so good, we loved the images especially. We always visit when we are in the UK.
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Incredible series better than mainstream programs on the BBC
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Thank you for making and posting these videos. I lived at various locatios in that area as a child and teenager and we often went to the park. My mum remembered going to the palace as a young child and often told me about the fireworks. As a teenager i found out about the myth of the buried carriage. It has been going on for years in various forms. It has also involved the two tunnels on the route from the old station. It was said dead bodies from the London blitz supposedly put in the paxton tunnel on an old train and children dissappearing and being found in the tunnel. All myths because the railway tunnels weren't sealed in the 60s, i have spoken to somone who walked through both as a boy. The platforms were still there. I used to look over the wall and asked if we could go down but my mum said NO.
Darren, I have to say that I’m most impressed with your 3 part series on the magnificent Crystal Palace exhibition formerly at Upper Sydenham/ Penge Wood, I grew up on Gipsy Hill back in the 60’s and have many vivid memories of exploring the different parts of what remains of the old exhibition building, the grounds and old high level railway, the railway tunnels (Paxton and Crescent Wood just below Upper Sydenham station), also the old track bed leading to Lordship Lane station (now a housing estate) and still in place is the footbridge over the line at Cox’s Walk. However, I did spot a slight error in your video where you said that the bridge where the high level station entrance was is the original bridge, unfortunately that is a modern replacement, I seem to remember them replacing it back in the 1980’s as the original was deemed unsafe, but everything else you have shown I believe is correct, I also remember that there was a coal merchants office that was on the corner next to the main entrance to the station which survived until about 1970. Anyway, I would like to congratulate you on a truly professional quality video series, it’s always a pleasure to hear about the old Crystal Palace exhibition and the incredible park as it was in its heyday, thank you for rekindling such wonderful memories growing up so close in such an historic area of London.
Thanks Peter. And thanks for the memories.
Great series,absolutely fascinating! The Palace was an amazing structure. Really enjoyed the series, thanks for putting it together so well. John
Thanks for watching.
the quality and accuracy of your century spanning comparative dissolves is beyond compare. Well done.
Thank you
Hi Darren, Another great video on a very interesting subject remote from your usual turf. Keep up the good work around the country.
Brilliant Series... Even as a life long resident I've learnt so much.. Again, the overlays of the old Palace oevr present day are the best realisations I've seen and could be made into brilliant pieces of art!!!
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Darren, though I’m a fan of your channel anyway, these three episodes are exceptional. So much so I’m planning to head there later this year. Well done!
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Really enjoyed this video, first of yours I have watched, but looking forward to watching more. I never knew the Crystal Palace was so big, the blended images show this off superbly (I have used this method myself in my home town). The atmosphere railway was super interesting to me as I have investigated the South Devon Railway built by Brunel in 1844 which ran on an atmosphere pipe line from Exeter and the one he took insperation from in Ireland.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm a big fan of abandoned videos but I haven't seen the fantastic post production of mixing past and present you did in this series. Wonderful.
Thanks Paul. Something I do a lot of.
Thank you for capturing history, for we dont know where we are going if we dont know our past is so true.
Like some of your other commentators I remember being taken to see the Crystal Palace dinosaurs when I was a kid back in the 1970s. I really enjoyed this series of videos on the Crystal Palace, the surrounding grounds and transport infrastructure, it is the most comprehensive survey of the site today that I have seen. Thank you very much.
Thanks Mark. I noticed there wasn't much around on CZcams, so I decided to put that right.
Brilliant. Lots of very little-known information saved from oblivion. The montage photos were exceptional. What a loss CP was. Thanks for an outstanding job.
Thanks Mike.
Wow, that was some place! Thank you for posting this and the others.
Thanks mate. Yes it really is something
Such a shame we have lost so much of our history to make way for new developments. Really enjoyed the series, great visual and very informative. Keep up the good work, you have a new subscriber after watching these videos.
Thanks Daniel. Welcome aboard.
Watched parts 1,2,3 and was truly impressed So much effort went into this production and particularly impressive was the transformation from original to now. This channel should be available on mainstream TV or at least on Amazon Prime. Many thanks. 👍
Thanks mate. Glad you appreciated it.
OUTSTANDING
Wonderfully put together, with the historical progress and development covered in detail.
The merged in photos of the past structure are terrific..
Thank you for your work...
Well done......
James Hennighan
Yorkshire, England
Thanks for these three videos on the Crystal Palace. It is only very recently that I first visited this park, even though I have known about it for years. This has now provided me with a much better understanding of what the original site looked like and how it was laid out. Also hadn't really appreciated just how big the exhibition actually was in terms of the overall layout and extent.
Thanks for watching. Yes it was massive.
Wow what an sbsolutely AMAZING video Darren. Thank you so much. Your attention to detail, level of research, music & fading in & out with the old pictures, sends shivers down my spine!.
I didn't know about the Crystal Palace history & what surrounded the park, so your mini series has taught me lots of very interesting facts.
Thank you so much for your time & efforts in making these. Truly outstanding!
Thanks for watching Lizzie. More to come.
Thank you I really enjoyed the three videos of the Crystal Palace you are such a good orator and explain it all very well
Thank you so much!
You, sir, are a brilliant videographer. The fades of the Crystal Palace were masterfully done, with the new and old images seeming to register perfectly. I also applaud your obviously extensive research, and I was amazed to learn of the "Victorian Hyperloop", 150 years ahead of its time. Excellent video!
Thanks Dave. Much appreciated
Moved away from the area 2yrs ago now, always loved a sunny afternoon at Crystal Palace park. Thanks for video, had me reminiscing...👍
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Excellent, Really enjoyed all three videos.
As a south London boy I have found this series fascinating, in the 60s I and mates from school would venture there by either train to Sydenham or no 3 bus to Chrystal Palace Parade, happy memories. The way you have morphed the then and now photographs together is amazing, very well done!
Thanks George.
I remember the No 3 Bus to Crystal Palace Parade
so well presented and informative..thank you
Very good Darren, enjoyed all 3 parts of the Crystal Palace, you are the master of overlay with the old photos.
Spectacular video! Thanks 🙏🏻
We used to live in West Norwood.
My elder sister came back many times explaining that they have been in the tunnel and walked it's length.
This was around 45 years ago, but the excitement of those evenings is still in my head.
Thanks for watching.
Love the video as always, and all the interesting detail you.put into them, thanks for sharing.
What a wonderful series, really enjoyed. Thank you so much for coming way down South (from Leeds anyway) to make this. So much information so well put. Thanks again.
Absolutely brilliant series.
Loved watching it.
Thanks so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just discovered this video!
I grew up in Woodland Rd Crystal Palace. As a kid (1960s-ish) I remember exploring the ruins of Crystal Palace. I remember walking along Farquar Rd with a friend & somehow finding the entrance to the underground tunnel which was not cordoned or blocked off at that time. Although the tunnel was dark, we could see what looked like an old train engine about 50 meters ahead. We didn’t venture into the tunnel because it looked too dark & scary. I would like to know if anyone else had this experience & if this engine is on display anywhere?
Thanks Darren for a great video. Keep up the good work.
Excellent series very well put together keep up the good work :)
Amazing work as always for all three parts but I really loved this part, the dedication is amazing and fantastic, great job as always
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Excellent work. You truly deserve a TV show. Fred Dibnah would have loved this.
Thanks for watching. More to come.
As someone who's lived in the area since 1983, this is absolutely fascinating! So well produced; the super-imposition photos are perfect!
Well thoroughly enjoyed these 3 episodes, beautiful camera footage and Amazing overlap pics, I've subscribed to your channel, please keep this quality content coming.
Brilliant film Darren Thankyou.
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Fascinating. Love your work. Thank you x
Thanks Susan
Congrats on 20k subscribers!
Yet again, a superb set of videos. What makes these stand out is the accuracy of the overlays. The attention to detail is absolutely spot on.
Thanks mate. I tried my best with this one.
@@AdventureMe Well your best was perfect mate!
Always a fantastic time out thank you 🙏
Thanks Ant
Awesome series... thank you for all your gard work.
No problem. Thanks
Great finish to the series… your best one yet! Love the topics you are covering, can’t wait to see what’s next!!
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Thank you for making this! Absolutely incredible!
Thanks Matt.
An incredible series, every second was enjoyable. Many thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
Fantastic series, as good as anything on TV. The Crystal Palace was something I heard about as a boy, and thought it was a work of fiction. But then seeing photos of its grandeur, wow, what a thing it must have been to go and see. Brilliant work fella.
Thanks for watching darah
@@AdventureMe It was a pleasure!
Brilliant series of programs. Thank you. …..
Thanks for watching
These videos are great. The effort you put in is incredible.
Thanks for watching.
Wow another excellent video thanks Darren, the time you take to look up all the historical information and photos you fade in and out, are brilliant, and show us how it used to look, I really look forward to watching your videos, it makes my day when it comes up on CZcams that you have done another great video.
Please keep them coming and stay safe
Thanks for watching.
Superb. Great research, overlays and history. Congrats.
Thanks for watching. More to come.
I've really enjoy this series of videos. Thank you and I can't wait until the next one.
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Great work. Well done. Loved this 3 part series.
Thanks for watching.
Fascinating! Love your channel, all really interesting. More please!
Thanks for watching. More to come.
that was a fantastic video mate, informative and nicely presented 10/10
Many thanks.
As always great videos Darren the now & then aspects really set your videos apart from other vloggers greatly most of us have heard of the famous crystal palace but i think not many knew the full history of it. Kudos to you.
Thanks for watching.
Well done! Relaxing to watch. Love the overlap between old and new. Wow! Good job.
Thank you very much!
Another great film, love the fade in pictures as well. Keep up the great work
Thanks for watching. More to come.
Great videos, and the way you’ve superimposed the old photos is brilliant
Glad you like them!
Outstanding video, production was spot on, and very fascinating to see.
Thanks Adam
Great video, really enjoyed it.
Absolutely fascinating. Really enjoyed this very in depth, well researched series. Your merging of the old over new images is also excellent, and very accurate. 10/10
Thanks Ian.
Amazing research and video production. The best I have seen on You Tube by far!
Thanks Spenny. I am blushing with those comments. Makes me try harder.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! Thank you so much for all your vlogs , the information is amazing 👏👏👏 x
You are so welcome!
Great trilogy of vids. Brings back a lot of memories from when i was a kid playing in the park.
Glad you enjoyed it
loved this series mate, really well put together
Thanks mate
Great video, well researched and the fade overs of the old and new were brilliant.
Glad you enjoyed it
Absolutely Fantastic set of videos on Crystal Palace. Great information well researched. To top it all are your infamous then and now phased in & out imagery which are quite haunting but add so much to the video. More of this would be great!!!
I do plenty of the fades, it's my signature thing now. Thanks for watching.
Fantastic series, very interesting, informative and fascinating. I loved the editing also. Thank you.
Thank you very much!
Another informative video.keep exploring.👍👍
Thanks for watching.
Another fascinating video. Really glad to have found your channel. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for watching Daz.
Very informative and highly entertaining. Excellent job. Well done.
Thanks Chris
Really enjoyed. Fantastic video !
Thanks mate
Watched all 3 back to back, what a fine hours viewing that was. Well done on bringing the place to life and joining those historical dots.
Thanks for watching.
Very nice video. Love the now and then overlays. It gives it a wonderful perspective.
Thanks for watching.