Pouparts Junction
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A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of railways in the vicinity of Clapham Junction. Pouparts Junction is just left of centre, where the two green lines diverge
Pouparts Junction is a railway junction near Clapham Junction south of the River Thames in inner London, England.
It was named after Samuel Poupart (1807–1875), a market gardener who at one time owned a farm on land that is now Shaftesbury Park Estate.[1]
References
- ↑ Slater, John, ed. (October 1985). "Why and Wherefore? Pouparts Junction". Railway Magazine. Vol. 131 no. 1014. Sutton, Surrey: Transport Press. p. 492. ISSN 0033-8923.
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