Dalston Junction railway station

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Dalston Junction
The Broad Street branch line in 1899
Location
Place Dalston
History
Opened by North London Railway
Platforms 4
Key dates Opened 1865
Closed 1986
Old station demolished 2005
Due to reopen 2010
Replaced by Dalston Kingsland

Dalston Junction was originally a railway station in the London Borough of Hackney, now being redeveloped enabling it to re-open to train services. It was on the North London Railway that ran to Broad Street railway station. It was located at the corner of Kingsland High Street and Dalston Lane and was linked to the North London Line by two partly covered curves that ran both east and west to the north of the station.

It ran services to Poplar via the east curve and to Richmond via the west. To the south the services to Richmond ran fast from Broad Street as there was no platform for them at either Haggerston or Shoreditch. [1]

The infamous Louise Masset murdered her young son Manfred in the ladies lavatories at Dalston Junction station in 1899. She was executed in January 1900, the first person to die that way in the 20th century in Britain.

The station closed along with the rest of the line in 1986; since then the site has been boarded up and derelict. Nevertheless, the locality has retained the name of the station - both the road signs and bus stops indicate that one is at 'Dalston Junction'.

Contents

[edit] East London Railway

In early 2005 the few remaining parts of the former station were demolished to facilitate the construction of a new station on the extended East London Railway. Rather than being a tube line, services will form part of the London Overground network. The new station is due to be opened in June 2010 as a temporary terminus, with through services beginning in 2011 via the rebuilt west curve to Canonbury and Highbury & Islington[2]. Dalston Junction is 250 metres (270 yd) from Dalston Kingsland railway station, across two major roads, but maps will show the two stations as an interchange[3]. Although the planned line towards Highbury & Islington will use the west curve, the alignment towards the east is also being protected by Tfl for possible future use.

The station site includes a considerable amount of vacant land, and Transport for London and Hackney Council are planning a large scale redevelopment above the new station, with a new bus interchange and residential towers up to 18 storeys tall.[4]

[edit] Chelsea-Hackney Line

Dalston Junction is also a planned station of the Chelsea-Hackney Line route between Wimbledon and Epping. On the current proposed route it would be between Essex Road and Hackney Central.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ All Stations to Poplar JC Connor
  2. ^ London Overground. Transport for London. Retrieved on 2007-11-11.
  3. ^ BBC.co.uk: 2010 Tube Map
  4. ^ East London Line Planning Brief

[edit] External links

  Preceding station     London Overground     Following station  
    From 2010    
Terminus   London Overground
East London Railway
under construction		   Haggerston
    From 2011    
Canonbury   London Overground
East London Railway
under construction		   Haggerston
Disused Railways
Mildmay Park   North London Railway
Broad Street-Richmond		   Broad Street
Hackney   North London Railway
Broad Street-Poplar		   Haggerston
Canonbury   British Rail
Eastern Region
North London Line (City Branch)		   London
Broad Street


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