The Lost CRYSTAL PALACE Stations - What Remains?

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
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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

[@travis2333]

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!!!

[@AdventureMe]

Wow, thank you!

[@STB-1]

What a brilliant series, love the now and then comparison pictures fading into each other, outstanding work👍

[@normansmithers4465]

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.

[@Dan23_7]

@@normansmithers4465 Eye witness then mate ? Fantastic 🥰

[@normansmithers4465]

@@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!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching.

[@robmtt9125]

@@AdventureMe See My Other Comment asI Cant Copy and Paste here for some Reason.

[@Aaron-be2pt]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Me too. Thanks for watching

[@Go-go-super-guru]

You make me feel nostalgic towards an era that I've never even known. 🥰🥰🥰

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching

[@TheThorntonBrapper]

A fantastic series, brilliantly researched and executed, especially the overlay imagery! I predict big things for this channel :)

[@keithcheeseman567]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching.

[@simonbarrall4773]

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.

[@Exile_G]

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! :)

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@bridgetroll9]

As the saying goes, the more things change the more they stay the same.

[@bobsrailrelics]

I really admire the way you research these and manage to shoot and overlay images so accurately. This was fascinating.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@S.J7777]

Incredible series better than mainstream programs on the BBC

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@michaeljohncooper]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@hoseinghasedi7254]

I admire how you align your perspective with the original old images before you start recording and how they blend into those images.

[@tjfSIM]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate.

[@poulmh]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching.

[@COASTER1921]

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.

[@marklloyd3536]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching.

[@guvcfc]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching

[@petercurtis3984]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Peter. And thanks for the memories.

[@KashLatif]

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!

[@mariaandwill563]

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 😀👍🏼

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@leilabennett1366]

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.

[@simontolfree4036]

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

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@shirleylynch7529]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@lindseybowden3453]

Brilliant trio of Vids here. Such incredible history. x

[@nickd6874]

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!

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@CR-fz2kl]

Just stumbled across your videos can I just say amazing work well done! Give this man a series on TV

[@Mishkacat123]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@quoman2232]

Great video, really enjoyed it.

[@jaymibutler8724]

Excellent series very well put together keep up the good work :)

[@kennethstill5945]

Fantastic series once again Darren ! Wouldn’t it be marvellous to see this palace in the flesh.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@chrisrodbarker6272]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@JohnS-nn8si]

Excellent, Really enjoyed all three videos.

[@gabriiallek7727]

love how u make the old pics overlap where they used to be, makes u my fave explorer!

[@johnogsii7976]

Great series,absolutely fascinating! The Palace was an amazing structure. Really enjoyed the series, thanks for putting it together so well. John

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching.

[@Petecope]

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!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@sbarncar]

the quality and accuracy of your century spanning comparative dissolves is beyond compare. Well done.

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you

[@oddsandwindsocks5905]

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.

[@SteveAttwood]

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!!!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@Nellyontheland]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching.

[@clydewilson8108]

so well presented and informative..thank you

[@Wedgedoow]

Very good Darren, enjoyed all 3 parts of the Crystal Palace, you are the master of overlay with the old photos.

[@douglasfleetney5031]

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.

[@JCardoso-j9l]

Spectacular video! Thanks 🙏🏻

[@dianeshepherd7913]

Love the video as always, and all the interesting detail you.put into them, thanks for sharing.

[@rachelwalker7091]

Great video, so interesting, and the fades were amazing.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Thurlby99]

Loved watching this series great info overlays and music.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@spendover]

Your videos are fantastic and there’s a lot of work gone into them…. I especially liked the Butlins Filey ones as I’m from Bridlington. I enjoy looking at before and after pictures…. Keep up the good work mate 👍

[@leeandjude]

Absolutely brilliant series. Loved watching it. Thanks so much!

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@reddeviluk]

An incredible series, every second was enjoyable. Many thanks.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@martyn3211]

Hi, wtached a few of your vids now, great stuff, love the overlays you put up and how well you present the history and keep it all interesting

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate, more to come very soon.

[@shaunt7175]

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.

[@wellardsmith3629]

Great work. Well done. Loved this 3 part series.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching.

[@anthonyellis987]

I've really enjoy this series of videos. Thank you and I can't wait until the next one.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@steveosborne8139]

Brilliant film Darren Thankyou.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@jmt979]

Thank you for making this! Absolutely incredible!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Matt.

[@Gllmprruiaueiee]

Amazing series!

[@SAM-zt2uy]

Really interesting series thank you, it’s been somewhere I’ve always wanted to have a wander round.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@kevincross9206]

So enjoyable - great series 👍🏻

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching

[@johnphazzleton]

Really enjoyed. Fantastic video !

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate

[@royster3345]

Great video, well researched and the fade overs of the old and new were brilliant.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@stephenharper9961]

Amazing work as always for all three parts but I really loved this part, the dedication is amazing and fantastic, great job as always

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@susanwilsher484]

Fascinating. Love your work. Thank you x

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Susan

[@6547803]

Always a fantastic time out thank you 🙏

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Ant

[@johntyjp]

Very well presented laddie! When you think of the trouble a glass greenhouse could be, I dread to think what maintenance the Palace needed !! 😨😄

[@TomClarkSouthLondon]

*Outstanding, informative research!* 👍

[@karengill8234]

Brilliant series of programs. Thank you. …..

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching

[@markb9013]

Awesome series... thank you for all your gard work.

[@AdventureMe]

No problem. Thanks

[@buckieloon]

Beautifully made, loved the transitions, well done.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks

[@NewingtonBoy]

Very interesting! Thanks for the videos! 👍

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@Zoe-lb7gb]

Just loved that. Thankyou 🙂

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@Yourifly]

Well done! Relaxing to watch. Love the overlap between old and new. Wow! Good job.

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you very much!

[@WmDavidHarrison]

Brilliant overlays and fascinating railway history of which I was unaware. Thank you.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad to help William.

[@saraclayton-smithson5083]

Great finish to the series… your best one yet! Love the topics you are covering, can’t wait to see what’s next!!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@gigteevee6118]

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.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching.

[@DavidHarry]

Great video Darren, very informative. Cheers, Dave.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks David. I've just watched your iPhone vlogging video.

[@MrInternetDude]

Well done watched all 3 amazing thanks

[@AdventureMe]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@fatbox100]

Fantastic series, very interesting, informative and fascinating. I loved the editing also. Thank you.

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you very much!

[@TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching

[@annescott2748]

Thoroughly enjoyable video, thanks!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks anne

[@xpyres2130]

Fascinating! Love your channel, all really interesting. More please!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@mattlock4035]

Great videos, and the way you’ve superimposed the old photos is brilliant

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you like them!

[@aA-ye1cf]

Loved the bit about the rumour of the coach with last passengers still inside the hyperloop!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching

[@Green4321]

I appreciate all the research that you have done.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Lee

[@bobingram6912]

That was a great three episoder. Very interesting about the different types of proposed railways, I'd only ever heard of the atmospheric railway, amazing what the Vics came up with. Top stuff Darren, excellent fades, definitely worth getting in a sweat about😥😥😃😄👍🏻❤

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come. It was very hot.

[@dad675]

Excellent video. Thank you

[@AdventureMe]

You are welcome!

[@Group51]

Astonishing presentation. Well done!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@HeftyFromage]

loved this series mate, really well put together

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate

[@eddywells5689]

Didn't realise it was so extensive !!!!! Major eye opener !!

[@mrhis2ry]

Fascinating history. Love they way you handled the overlay of the historic photos.

[@AdventureMe]

Many thanks!

[@ELVIS-7735]

Great series..

[@_BrianFitz]

Excellent content. Keep exploring and sharing

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Brian

[@graemehannam3950]

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 KZbin that you have done another great video. Please keep them coming and stay safe

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching.

[@Wheels-Wheels-Wheels]

Fascinating video, thank you for the insight into this once incredible place.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@lordfrazerirwin990]

During the late fifties we lived on the outskirts of the Bethlem Royal Hospital. The view from our back window took us directly to the radio mast. I remember going round the park and, no doubt, the boating lake. Never did we think there was so much hidden or lost.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching

[@David-uf8ex]

Just watched all 3 thank you for doing these you really did your homework great stuff 👍🏻 so interesting, so sad it wasn’t rebuilt

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@hcelondon5097]

That was absolutely fantastic I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed that I’ve been fascinated by the great exhibition and the palace brilliant documentary

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@sandycheeks7865]

Absolutely best transitions ever!!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate.

[@darrenwales2819]

Another fascinating video. Really glad to have found your channel. Keep up the great work.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching Daz.

[@martinmarsola6477]

Another journey into the past. Thank you Darren. You have a definite way of conducting these tours. Cheers mate! 🇬🇧😊👍🇺🇸

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching. More to come.

[@markgoddard2560]

Excellent, well researched and nicely presented. Subscribed.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks and welcome aboard

[@digsdrains]

Brilliant series !!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for watching