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Mission Possible 2! Bishopsgate mini-tour & approach viaduct mini-walk - 9th April 2025

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Bishopsgate site viewed from the A10 junction with Commercial Street.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Bishopsgate site viewed from Bethnal Green Road.< <br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Braithwaite Street looking towards Bishopsgate site. Shoreditch High Street station entrance is right (London Overground).<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Braithwaite Street with the Bishopsgate site above the tunnel.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Plan of Bishopsgate site. The part of Wheler Street on the plan was renamed Braithwaite Street in honour of one of the most influential men in British railway history, John Braithwaite see https://tinyurl.com/ysns9vd6<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Part of the undercroft.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Part of the undercroft <br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Part of the undercroft.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Part of the undercroft where a turntable had been situated.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

The view over the wall above the running lines into Liverpool Street,<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

The view over the wall above the running lines into Liverpool Street with Greater Anglia Stadler class 745102 passing,<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

The entrance to the other section of the undercroft in Braithwaite street.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Part of the other section of the undercroft.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Part of the other section of the undercroft.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Part of the other section of the undercroft.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

The stunning cast iron gates on the old original ornate entrance,<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Detail from the gates seen ahead in the previous photo.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

The end of the fully enclosed viaduct section of the Windrush line viewed from Brick Lane.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Through wire netting (ignore the black blobs where they cross) towards Liverpool Street, the Overground line is above (Shoreditch High Street ahead).<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

The former Shoreditch London Underground station.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Pedley Street Network Rail Compound (more correctly, 'Structures Depot - Building & Civil Engineering') with some interesting artefacts.<br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]

Pedley Street Structures Depot <br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Pedley Street Structures Depot.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

About as close as our members came to a group photo but what were they admiring? (See the first photo in this set.) The Liverpool Street lines are right.<br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]

One of the splendid artifacts stored in Pedley Street Structures Depot.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

One of the splendid artifacts stored in Pedley Street Structures Depot.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]

Pedley Street Structures Depot.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]


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