"This short passage in Charlton that runs under the mainline railway spends most of its life as a very quiet little passage, and occasionally throngs with huge crowds. That's because it happens to be one of the routes to Charlton football club stadium, but as a passage, it owes its origins to the thing that gives the stadium its nickname - The Valley."
"Long before there was a football stadium here, there was a large sand-and-chalk open-air mine excavated for building materials. And to get the heavy loads from the mine to the riverside, a light railway was built. Called the Glenton's Sand and Ballast Railway, it was built by the rich property developer Lewis Glenton and opened in 1841. When the South Eastern Railway wanted to extend its railway from Lewisham to Kent in the late 1840s,"
"Back to Ransom Walk, the southern end of the railway was torn up by 1893. However, housing developments were expanding thanks to the mainline railway, so shortly after the light railway closed, it was turned into a road to connect with the new housing. It was originally called, for obvious reasons, Archway Road, but in 1900, for some reason or other, it was renamed Ransom Road."
A quiet passage beneath the mainline railway serves as one route to Charlton football club stadium and originates from a 19th-century sand-and-chalk mine. Heavy loads from the mine were carried to the riverside by the Glenton's Sand and Ballast Railway, built by Lewis Glenton and opened in 1841. The South Eastern Railway crossed the light railway in the late 1840s, requiring a brick viaduct. The pits closed late in the 19th century; the northern end was used by rope works and much survives behind fences, while the southern end became Archway Road, renamed Ransom Road in 1900.
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