Looking rather ramshackle now, North Woolwich station is a pretty standard example of Great Eastern Railway architecture. You'll see derivatives of this building dotted around their territory. Railway companies like to find a style and stick to it, or at least some of them did.
The building used to be home to the Great Eastern Railway Museum, but this closed in 2008. The exhibits have been dispersed to other establishments, but it's a shame the museum closed. To be honest, there's precious little else to head to this side of the Thames for.
Hopefully, the building will find a sympathetic new owner. Probably some sort of apartment block, but maybe the conversion will be carried out by someone with the same sort of imagination as did Wolverhampton Low Level station.
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