The New Cross Rangers were a motorcycle speedway team which operated from 1934 until their closure in 1953.

[5] In 1935 Tom Farndon was killed after crashing at the stadium[6][7] and in 1937, New Cross Rangers rider Jack Milne from America won the second ever Speedway World Championship.

The colours were brought with the team from Crystal Palace when promoter Fred Mockford transferred the whole operation.

Before The track reopened in 1959 under Johnnie Hoskins for a series of open meetings and then in 1960 and 1961 operated in the National League.

It was built inside the greyhound track and had banking all the way round.