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Belfast Road, LONDON, N16 6UN

Remnants of painted mural advertisement - this one for the Westminster Gazette newspaper, the history of which may be found by visiting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Gazette

Opened in 1872 by the Great Eastern Railway on its line from London Liverpool Street to Broxbourne. View north west towards Stamford Hill and Broxbourne.

Postbox No. N16 21. See Image] for context.

Showing position of Postbox No. N16 21. See Image] for postbox.

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 down the line under the bridge carrying Stamford Hill over the line.