Minories railway station

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Minories
Minories station, circa 1840.
Location
Place Minories
History
Opened by Commercial Railway
Platforms
Key dates Opened 6 July 1840
Rebuilt and resited 1841
Closed 1854
Replaced by Fenchurch Street

Minories railway station was a railway station located on Minories, near Tower Hill, London. It opened on 6 July 1840 as the City terminus for the London and Blackwall Railway (then known as the Commercial Railway).

Minories was soon supplemented by a new station several hundred yards west, at Fenchurch Street, designed by Sir William Tite. This station opened in 1841, although Minories functioned as an alternative terminus until 1853[1], when it was closed to make way for expanded Fenchurch Street (which was completed the following year). The station site was later converted into goods sidings. In 1987, when the Docklands Light Railway opened, its western terminus at Tower Gateway opened on the site of the old Minories station.


Disused railway stations of East London

EC&TJR: Beckton | Central | Connaught Road | Gallions | Manor Way | North Woolwich | Silvertown
Stratford Market | Tidal Basin

ECR/GER: Bishopsgate | Bishopsgate (low level) | Bow Road | Burdett Road | Coborn Road
Devonshire Street | Globe Road | Lea Bridge | Mile End

L&BR: Blackwall | Cannon Street Road | Leman Street | Limehouse | Millwall Junction | Millwall Docks
Minories | North Greenwich | Poplar | Shadwell | South Dock | West India Docks

NLR: Bow | Broad Street | Old Ford | Poplar | Shoreditch | South Bromley | Victoria Park