Mile End railway station (London)

Not to be confused with Mile End tube station.

Mile End
LocationMile End
Grid referenceTQ350824
Number of platforms2
Railway companies
Original companyEastern Counties Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Eastern Railway
Key dates
April 1841 (1841-04)[1]Opened
24 May 1872 (1872-05-24)Closed
Replaced byBethnal Green Junction
Other information
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Mile End was a railway station in Mile End, east London, opened in 1841 by the Eastern Counties Railway on its line between the Shoreditch terminus and Coborn Road.

Shoreditch station was later renamed Bishopsgate, and an additional station called Bishopsgate (Low Level) opened preceding Mile End.

In 1872 a new connection between Liverpool Street, which by then was the new terminus of the Great Eastern Railway, and Hackney Downs was opened and Mile End station was closed[2] and replaced by Bethnal Green Junction just 10 chains (0.20 km) to the west, which later became known simply as Bethnal Green.

  1. ^ Forgotten Stations of Great London by J.E.Connor and B.Halford- page 67
  2. ^ Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 296. OCLC 931112387.