Peter Beale wrote:
In article , (Mark
Brader) wrote:
And the original Blackfriars station was a terminal station on the
south bank of the river.
The line was opened from Herne Hill to Elephant & Castle in 1862,
then extended to the original Blackfriars in 1864. Later the same
year a short branch was made from just before this station,
crossing the river to Ludgate Hill. This was originally a
temporary terminus, replaced in 1865 with a permanent station,
which became a through station when the Snow Hill Tunnel and the
link to the Metropolitan Railway at Farringdon were opened in 1866.
In 1874 the branch off this route to Holborn Viaduct was opened,
and the same year Snow Hill station was added to the through route,
so now there were four stations in the area, two through and two
terminal.
In 1886 the branch to the original Blackfriars was closed, and yet
another short new branch crossed the Thames on a new bridge to
reach the new terminus of St. Paul's -- now Blackfriars.
Wouldn't the 1864 LCDR station have been Blackfriars Bridge? - it
opened on 1st June, the same day as the extension from Elephant &
Castle, and closed 1st October 1885.
It was Blackfriars according to H.P. White, my source of London railway
history. His dates agree with those in Mark's post, and he implies that
the old Blackfriars was closed at the same time as St Paul's was opened
on 10 May 1886. Do you have a source for "Blackfriars Bridge" and the
October 1885 closure date?
Incidentally amongst many old drawings glazed into the tiles in the
pedestrian tunnel under Blackriars road bridge (part of the Thames Path
on the south bank), there is at least one which shows the old
Blackfriars station. IIRC it's a view of the opening of the road bridge
by Queen Victoria in 1869.
There was also an SER Blackfriars, which only lasted 5 years -
11/1/1864-1/1/1869.
According to H.P. White, that was Blackfriars Road, opened as a
temporary station on the Charing Cross line pending the completion of
Waterloo Junction (now Waterloo East).
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Richard J.
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