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The name Loughborough Junction comes from the railway junction that sits at the center of this South East London area. The junction is north of the local railway station that borrows its name from the area. The railway station opened in 1864. The segment of the South London Line that crosses this area is a major rail freight circuit. It connects routes from the Channel Tunnel and Thames Estuary ports to areas west and north of London. Loughborough Junction is in the borough of Lambeth. It is in the wards of Herne Hill and Brixton Coldharbour. The area features three main estates: Loughborough, Angell Town, and Moorlands. Victorian and Georgian mansion blocks can be found here as well.

The area deteriorated over the years because of transport-related plans that were never completed and the lack of housing development. Loughborough Junction Action Group was formed in 2008 by residents. It works to revitalize this SE22 area. Regeneration plans were developed in 2013 with the council’s involvement. Some of the pubs that were closed are now working again. The Lambeth council turned the Green Man into a skills hub. The local Tesco Metro store was the Warrior pub. The building hosted the 7 Bridges project before it was turned into a supermarket.

Loughborough Junction was once featured in fiction in the novel of writer and theater-maker, Stella Duffy, The Room of Lost Things. The scene was set in a dry cleaner on Coldharbour Lane. This is the main road that passes through Loughborough Junction. It goes from Brixton to Camberwell. Back in 2003, London Evening Standard journalist David Cohen claimed that the mentioned above Coldharbour Lane is the most dangerous street in the most dangerous borough in London. Major Close borrows the name of former Prime Minister John Major who lived on Coldharbour Lane in the 1950s.