Pouparts Junction

Pouparts Junction is a railway junction near Clapham Junction south of the River Thames in inner London, England.

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

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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[1] 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.