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Great fire at the New-Cross Railway Station, on Monday last, October, 1844. Firefighters at the scene in south-east London: 'One of the most fearful fires that have occurred in the neighbourhood of the metropolis for many years took place...at the works attached to the station of the South Eastern, Brighton, and Croydon Railways at New-cross, resulting in the destruction of property to an enormous amount...It consists of an assemblage of vast workshops, large lathe and planing machine rooms, furnace rooms, carpenters' and painters' rooms, carriage and fire engine houses; and a grand octagonal engine house'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.