- Devonshire Street railway station
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Devonshire Street Location Place Mile End Old Town History Opened by Great Eastern Railway Platforms 2 Key dates Opened 1839
Closed 1840Replaced by Globe Road Devonshire Street railway station was a station in the parish of Mile End Old Town, in the East End of London. It was opened on 29 June 1839[1] as the temporary terminus for the Eastern Counties Railway from Romford prior to the construction of Bishopsgate (initially called Shoreditch).[2] The station closed in 1843;[3] in 1884 Globe Road railway station opened nearby to the west of the site of Devonshire Street.
Devonshire Street, after which the station was named, was later incorporated into the northern part of Bancroft Road, running east-west next to the tracks. The station was at the junction with Globe Road.[4]
Preceding station Disused railways Following station Bethnal Green Great Eastern
Railway
Great Eastern Main LineVictoria Park & Bow See also
References
- ^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 79. ISBN 1 85260 508 1. R508.
- ^ 'Bishopsgate Railway Terminus', Survey of London: volume 28: Spitalfields and Mile End New Town (1957), pp. 252-255. Date accessed: 06 August 2008.
- ^ Brown, Joe (2006). London Railway Atlas. ISBN 978-0-7110-3137-1. - p.24
- ^ Mile End Old Town
Categories:- Disused railway stations in Tower Hamlets
- Former Great Eastern Railway stations
- Railway stations opened in 1839
- Railway stations closed in 1840
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