Mile_End_railway_station_(London)

Mile End railway station (London)

Mile End railway station (London)

Former railway station in England

Not to be confused with Mile End tube station.

Mile End was a railway station in Bethnal Green, east London, opened in 1841 by the Eastern Counties Railway on its line between the Shoreditch terminus and Coborn Road.

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Shoreditch station was later renamed Bishopsgate, and an additional station called Bishopsgate (Low Level) opened preceding Mile End.

In 1872 a new connection between Liverpool Street, which by then was the new terminus of the Great Eastern Railway, and Hackney Downs was opened and Mile End station was closed[2] and replaced by Bethnal Green Junction just 10 chains (0.20 km) to the west, which later became known simply as Bethnal Green.

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51.52436°N 0.05519°W / 51.52436; -0.05519

References

  1. [1]
    Forgotten Stations of Great London by J.E.Connor and B.Halford- page 67
  2. [2]
    Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 296. OCLC 931112387.
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