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Brookmill Nature Reserve consists of part of a disused railway embankment between Brookmill Road and the busy lines from Lewisham to St Johns. The railway from Nunhead to Blackheath Hill was opened in 1871, and in 1888 extended on to Greenwich Park. Never a great success, the railway ceased operating at the end of 1916 as a wartime economy measure, and after the War it was left to quietly decay. The section west of here was re-routed to connect directly to Lewisham in 1929, while the section from here through to Greenwich Park was formally abandoned in that year and the tracks taken up.