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1930s map showing 1) Maiden Lane station and 2) York Road station on the Piccadilly line. Neither station had a high patronage. |
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Track level. |
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1930s map showing Mildmay Park station at the top left. Also the triangular Dalston Junction, with Broad Street being in a southerly direction and Poplar & Bow to the east. |
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A photo of Mildmay park station which was taken in July 1976 after a car in the workshop of John Holtons (whom leased the building at that time), caught fire whilst being welded and in turn caught the roof, which as you can see was quickly brought under control by the Fire brigade. It was at this point that the Station lost the ornamental rail around the top part of the roof when it was recovered later. |
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Looking east from the Mildmay Park road bridge. The scant remains of the staircase leading up to the station building are on the left of the photo. The space vacated by the removal of the platforms is obvious. |
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Early 1980s view from the opposite end of the platforms (King Henry's Walk), westward toward the station building.
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High vantage view of the Mildmay Park station building (viewed through a window, hence the reflections). |
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Closer view of part of the station building. |
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Hazy view of the old station platforms from the current Dalston Kingsland station. The train in the photo is just approaching the Mildmay Park station site, showing just how close the two stations were. |
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The original Kingsland station on this site was closed in 1865 when the route southward to Broad Street was opened; the Dalston area was served by a new station, Dalston Junction, on the Broad Street line. Over a century later, when closure of that line was finalised, a new Dalston Kingsland station was opened on its original site on the new look North London Line that ran from Richmond through to North Woolwich (so a replacement station replacing a replacement station). To complete the picture, Dalston Junction station, disused since 1986, is now due to be reopened as part of the East London Line extension. |
The other obvious railway feature is the dual electrification (is this unique to the NLR, I wonder?) This really is a case of shutting a station for a century and then building a new one in exactly the same place. Just like they're going to do on the ELL extension. I'll be interested to see how busy Haggerston will be. It was never busy, even in the NLR's heyday. I really thought that they would resite that one, maybe a little nearer to the Waste on Kingsland road, particularly as they are moving Shoreditch nearer to the Geffreye Museum. |
