North London Railway

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Legend
LNWR Queen's Park Kilburn & Maida Vale Loudon Road Chalk Farm Hampstead Road Kentish Town Junction Camden Town St Pancras Junction MR / GNR Maiden Lane Caledonian Road & Barnsbury Highbury & Islington Canonbury Mildmay Park Western Junction Dalston Junction Haggerston Shoreditch Broad Street
NLR Kensal Rise to Blackwall MR Kensal Rise Brondesbury Park Brondesbury West End Lane Finchley Road Hampstead Heath Gospel Oak Kentish Town NLR main line to Queens Park Camden Town St Pancras Junction MR / GNR Maiden Lane Caledonian Road & Barnsbury Highbury & Islington Canonbury Mildmay Park Western Junction NLR to Broad St Dalston Kingsland Hackney Central Homerton Victoria Park Old Ford Bow South Bromley Poplar (East India Road) Blackwall GER

The North London Railway (NLR) company had lines connecting the northern suburbs of London with the East and West India Docks further east. The main east to west route is now part of London Overground's North London Line. Other NLR lines fell into disuse but were later revived as part of the Docklands Light Railway, and London Overground's East London Line. The company was originally called the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway (E&WID&BJR) from its start in 1850, until 1853. In 1909, it entered into an agreement with the London and North Western Railway which introduced common management, and the NLR was taken over completely by the LNWR in 1922. The LNWR itself became part of the LMS from the start of 1923. The railways were nationalised in 1948 and most LMS lines, including the North London route, then came under the control of the London Midland Region of British Railways.