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unusual facts about New Cross


R v Gnango

At approximately 6.20 pm on 2 October 2007, 26 year old Polish care worker Magda Pniewska was making her way home from her place of work at Manley Court, a care home run by Bupa in New Cross in South East London.


Cannon Street station

Due to the Thameslink Programme removing the Spa Road Junction that enables access to Charing Cross from stations on the Greenwich Line and additionally New Cross and St Johns, these services will need to run to Cannon Street at all times.

L. B. Billinton

By the end of 1907 he was a district locomotive superintendent at the railway works at New Cross.

London Buses route 453

In an interview with James Righton of New Cross-based musical act Klaxons in the 2006 NME Student Guide, he encouraged readers to take the "45free" bus, a reference to the easily avoidable fare.


see also

Battle of Lewisham

In the mid-1970s New Cross and surrounding areas of south London became the focus of intense and sometimes violent political activity by neo-Nazis and members of the National Front (led by John Tyndall) and a breakaway faction (the National Party led by John Kingsley Read).

Eric French

He appeared in the 1949 film Once a Jolly Swagman, for which the racing scenes were shot at New Cross.

London Central

New Cross was also the garage for two special services, first in 1972 when it operated en ex Tilling ST on route 100 and LPG East Lancs Myllennium bodied DAF SB220s for Millennium Dome services M1 and M2.

MileHighMusic

The label was founded in 1995 by Christy Fry but officially became a company in 2007 after the release of the successful compilation album New Cross - Raw & Unplugged.

New Cross Rangers

New Cross Stadium was used as a film set for some of the action and crowd scenes for the film "Once a Jolly Swagman" which starred Dirk Bogarde.

Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race

For the 2009 race, WMRA president Danny Hughes and Liyel Imoke (the new Cross River State governor) decided to inaugurate the first men's African Mountain Running Championships as part of the Obudu Mountain race.

Scottish rugby union system

With the advent of professionalism in 1995 the Scottish Rugby Union decided that existing club sides would be unable to compete with their wealthier English and French counterparts in new cross-border tournaments such as the European Cup and Celtic League.

Trams in Basel

In 1900, the Basel tramway network acquired an international dimension, when a new cross-border line was opened to Sankt-Ludwig (now Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin), in the then German Empire.