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Braithwaite Street, LONDON, E1 6GJ

The station had only been open for less than a year at this point and still looked shiny. A covered cycle rack has been provided by the Braithwaite Street entrance.

Inside the new Station, opened only a month before (27/4/10) on the new London Overground East London Line from New Cross etc., and now from West Croydon/Crystal Palace (23/5/10), to Dalston Junction.

Taken from the junction with Chance Street

View south from Bethnal Green Road to Wheeler Street, under the new Shoreditch High Street station just opened above, a month before, on the new line connecting the East London Line, Whitechapel etc. (to left), with (to right), Hoxton on the resurrected North London Line from Broad Street. [?].

Opened in 2010 by Network Rail on the East London Line from Dalston Junction to Clapham Junction via Rotherhithe. View east towards Whitechapel and Rotherhithe. This station is on a completely new section of track linking the former North London and East London Railways.

The area of disused land in front of the brick arches is the site of one of London's early railway terminus stations. The station opened in 1840, originally called Shoreditch but subsequently renamed as Bishopsgate. It was superseded by the opening of a new station at Liverpool Street, and closed to passengers in 1879. The site was then developed as a goods depot, catering for large quantities of freight which was transported into and out of London by train. The goods depot was destroyed by fire in 1964. After lying derelict for many years, part of the site is now occupied by London Overground's Shoreditch High Street station, which opened in 2010. This photo was taken from a waiting area within Shoreditch High Street station. More information about this site is on the "Subterranea Britannica" site: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/b/bishopsgate_goods_station/index.shtml

The outer brick wall of this former goods yard has been left standing alongside Bethnal Green Road. It is breached by the street in the foreground - Braithwaite Street, formerly part of Wheler Street, which gives access to Shoreditch High Street station. Note the hire bike docking station to the left of the wall. This was introduced in summer 2010 soon after the new station opened. More history can be found on the Wikipedia entry for the new station: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreditch_High_Street_railway_station