Shoreditch High Street railway station
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| Shoreditch High Street | |
| Location | |
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| Place | Shoreditch |
| Local authority | Hackney and Tower Hamlets |
| Operations | |
| Managed by | London Overground |
| Platforms in use | 2 |
| Transport for London | |
| Zone | 2 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened Shoreditch tube station 1869 Closed 2006 Due to reopen June 2010 |
| Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail |
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Shoreditch High Street railway station is a railway station currently under construction in London, England. The station will be located on Bethnal Green Road near the junction with Shoreditch High Street in the Shoreditch district and will form part of the extended East London Line under the control of the London Rail division of Transport for London.
The station is due to be opened in June 2010 and replaces nearby Shoreditch tube station, which closed on 9 June 2006. The station is being built on the former site of the Eastern Counties Railway's Shoreditch terminus, built in 1840, and will be fully enclosed in order that future building works on the rest of the Bishopsgate site can be accomplished without requiring the line to close in the future. The original station was later renamed Bishopsgate and converted for use as a goods yard. It was destroyed by fire in 1964 and remained derelict until its demolition in 2005.
The next station to the south will be Whitechapel and that to the north will be Hoxton on the currently disused Broad Street branch of the North London Line. Shoreditch High Street station will link to the disused trackbed via a new bridge over Shoreditch High Street and will link to Whitechapel via a bridge over Brick Lane and a ramp on the site of the former Shoreditch Tube station.
As of mid-April 2008, the main structure of the adjacent bridge over Shoreditch High Street is complete. The ground on the approaches to the bridge has been largely cleared and significant sections of the approach viaducts have been built. The building of the station itself is at a very early stage only.
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[edit] Proposed name change
In May 2008 a prominent councillor in Tower Hamlets called for the new station to be re-named Banglatown, claiming this would better reflect the area in which it will stand, being a centre of the Bangladeshi community. However Transport for London noted that changing the name would cost £2million and "cause confusion".[1] Campaigns to change the name of stations are fairly common, but usually unsuccessful as in the case of the attempt to have Aldgate East tube station renamed 'Brick Lane'.
[edit] Connection with the Central Line
The East London Line extension crosses the Central Line near to this station, north of Liverpool Street station and long before that of Bethnal Green (one of the longest gaps between two stations in inner London). It was expected by some (and originally published in provisional plans, which remained active up until December 1998) that an interchange would be provided here. However, this is not currently part of the existing published plans. Some have been vociferous in demanding a link, but Transport for London (TfL) is believed to be unhappy about the potential connection, on grounds of cost and of loading of (and disruption to) the Central Line.
However, TfL has stated that if the Chelsea-Hackney line (a new proposed London Underground line) gets the go-ahead and takes over the Epping Branch of the Central line until Leytonstone, then the plans may be revived as the new line would relieve congestion of the Central Line and therefore the new station wouldn't cause as much disruption.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Bishopsgate Goods Station (Goodsyard) from Subterrranea Britannica
- Giant bridge fitted for rail line
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| Preceding station |  London Overground |
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| Hoxton | London Overground East London Railway under construction |
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