| The unlikely vineyard inside a London railway station Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 10:28, 23rd August 2026 |     |
From the BBC:
The unlikely vineyard inside a London railway station
The vines are just metres from rail station platforms and passing trains - Image © BBC News
There are few places you would expect to stumble across a vineyard in inner London and a sunny railway embankment in south London is probably not high on the list.
Yet just metres from the tracks at Denmark Hill station, a small group of volunteers is growing grapes to turn into wine.
The aptly named Château Denmark Hill Station vineyard is the work of Camberwell Society members Nick Mair and Tony Coleman, who saw a neglected patch of land as a place with the potential for making wine.
"We had this beautiful, south-facing slope covered in brambles, bindweed and stuff like that," says Tony. "And Nick said 'this could be a vineyard'. And we thought, 'wow, wouldn't that be an amazing thing to do?'"
(BBC article continues)
The vines are just metres from rail station platforms and passing trains - Image © BBC News
There are few places you would expect to stumble across a vineyard in inner London and a sunny railway embankment in south London is probably not high on the list.
Yet just metres from the tracks at Denmark Hill station, a small group of volunteers is growing grapes to turn into wine.
The aptly named Château Denmark Hill Station vineyard is the work of Camberwell Society members Nick Mair and Tony Coleman, who saw a neglected patch of land as a place with the potential for making wine.
"We had this beautiful, south-facing slope covered in brambles, bindweed and stuff like that," says Tony. "And Nick said 'this could be a vineyard'. And we thought, 'wow, wouldn't that be an amazing thing to do?'"
(BBC article continues)
| Re: The unlikely vineyard inside a London railway station Posted by Bob_Blakey at 11:26, 23rd August 2026 | |
I first heard about this on the Green Signals podcast last Thursday (20/08/26). The BBC article seems only to have been posted today.
