Stoke Newington station
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Stoke Newington station
Image: © Marathon Taken: 19 Jun 2013
The line from Bethnal Green station to Stoke Newington station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 27th May 1872. This had intermediate stations very closely spaced: at Cambridge Heath, London Fields, Hackney Downs, Rectory Road and Stoke Newington. The route was continued on to Lower Edmonton on 22nd July 1872 and to Edmonton Junction on 1st August 1872. In his book 'London's Local Railways' (1978) from which the above information was obtained, Alan A Jackson described a visit to the line in 1955: "The dreary stations almost untouched, their soot-stained brickwork and cavernous stairways giving shelter to the ghosts of corduroy-trousered workmen and consumptive clerks clutching their cheap tickets." The brickwork has been cleaned up but much of the rest of the description still rings true. This view looks up the line under the bridge carrying Cazenove Road over the line.
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Image Location
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51.564316
Longitude
-0.071916