South London Summer 1950. Trams still run in this part of London. The 34 tram route will survive but a few weeks yet. The 48 will last a bit longer. Electric Suburban trains on their way to Orpington and Sevenoaks and Kent Coast Steam hauled express trains in Malachite green  pass. The occasional lumbering goods train from the Eastern Region via Snow Hill trundles slowly through the station. Red Flat sided and clerestory roofed UndergrounD trains run into the bay, where the East London Line has somehow got extended to this part of London. The location is “Coldharbour”.

Coldharbour was originally that area  now known as Loughborough Junction, and lends its name to “Coldharbour Lane” The “Loughborough” in Loughborough junction is a reference to Loughborough Road, which extends about two miles north to the site of Loughborough House, the seat of Lord Loughborough, and about two miles north of Coldharbour.  When the railway built a station in the area, they called it Loughborough Road, then Loughborough Junction (when it became a junction), even though it was some two miles from Loughborough House, and situated in reality, at a location known as Coldharbour. at the junction of Coldharbour Lane with Loughborough Road.