West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway was the first line to create a corridor from the south and east towards Westminster and led to the development of London Victoria railway station. To coincide with the reopening of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill on 10 June 1854, the LB&SCR opened a short spur line linking a new Crystal Palace station to Sydenham station on the Brighton main line from London Bridge. The WELCPR was an independent company that aimed to create an additional line from Wandsworth to the LB&SCR station at Crystal Palace and thence to Norwood Junction, whence it would have running powers over the
Crystal Palace, London 23 February 1898, a direct consequence of the publication of his open letter "J'Accuse…!". Francis Pettit Smith, one of the inventors of the screw propeller and a contributor to the construction of the SS "Archimedes", lived in the area between 1864 and 1870. British rapper Speech Debelle was born in Crystal Palace. She left the area because of "traffic and parking problems". Camille Pissarro, Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter, stayed in Crystal Palace between 1870 and 1871. Crystal Palace, London Crystal Palace is an area in South London, England, named after the Crystal Palace Exhibition building which stood in the