Holborn Viaduct railway station

Closed London stations
name = Holborn Viaduct


owner = London, Chatham and Dover Railway
locale = City of London
platforms = 6
start = 1874
end = 1990
replace = City Thameslink

Holborn Viaduct was a railway terminus in central London.

Holborn Viaduct

being closed in 1929.

In the mid 1980s, Snow Hill tunnel was restored as a north-south rail link through central London. Services to and from Holborn Viaduct were gradually run down as part of this plan; the station closed on 26 January 1990. The station buildings were demolished and replaced by what is now called City Thameslink station nearby.
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now Hill railway station

Snow Hill station on the LC&DR opened on 1 August 1874. It was below ground in the Snow Hill tunnel, which linked the LC&DR to the Metropolitan Railway south of Farringdon.

The station was adjacent to Holborn Viaduct station and was renamed Holborn Viaduct Low Level in 1912, and closed on 1 June 1916 when passenger services through the tunnel were discontinued.

ee also

* List of closed railway stations in London
* Broad Street

External links

* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/s/snow_hill/index.shtml Disused Stations - Snow Hill]
* [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/h/holborn_viaduct/index.shtml Disused Stations - Holborn Viaduct]
* [http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/Holborn_Viaduct_station.html London's Abandoned Stations - Holborn Viaduct]

References

H.P.White, "London Railway History" (A regional history of the railways of Great Britain, Volume III - Greater London). David and Charles, 1963 and 1971. ISBN 0-7153-5337-3.

Alan A Jackson, "London's Termini", 1969. ISBN 0-7153-5901-0.