Just a quick reminder that Shoreditch station (East London Line) will close
permanently this Friday. Last train appears to depart at 20:34

IIRC, this will be the first station closure on the Underground since
Aldwych, North Weald and Ongar closed (on the same day) in 1994. However,
there has been a subsequent line closure - Green Park to Charing Cross when
the Jubilee Line Extension opened.

The closure also brings to an end the most unusual service pattern on the
Underground: M-F peaks and Sunday until mid-afternoon only.

Chris

"Chris Read" wrote in message
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Just a quick reminder that Shoreditch station (East London Line) will
close
permanently this Friday. Last train appears to depart at 20:34

Thankyou for the reminder. I must try hard to get there early Friday morning
and 'do' the ELL in full for the first, and in this way, last time.
I have a personal interest in this station as it is located on Pedley
Street....

Nick Pedley

I am also very grateful for the reminder. I will pay my provisional last
respects to-morrow, as I may not be able to make Friday night. If I
possibly can, I'll be there at the death.

Adrian

wrote:
I am also very grateful for the reminder. I will pay my provisional last
respects to-morrow, as I may not be able to make Friday night. If I
possibly can, I'll be there at the death.

Adrian

I went there yesterday morning but the light was from the wrong angle
so the phots weren't too good so I will go back this afternoon and hope
that the light from a different angle will be better.
Bearing in mind that that I got on a train at Canada Water at 9am the
train was probabley no more than 10-15% full at any point, I hope that
the billions of taxpayer money being spent on this line is being well
spent.
Considering that the ELL will go from nowhere to nowhere it seems alot
of money to spend.

Kevin

Kev wrote:


Considering that the ELL will go from nowhere to nowhere it seems alot
of money to spend.

Hey - i live in nowhere (Dalston), We've been waiting for this line for far
too long.

E.

"Chris Read" wrote in
:


Just a quick reminder that Shoreditch station (East London Line) will
close permanently this Friday. Last train appears to depart at 20:34

IIRC, this will be the first station closure on the Underground since
Aldwych, North Weald and Ongar closed (on the same day) in 1994.
However, there has been a subsequent line closure - Green Park to
Charing Cross when the Jubilee Line Extension opened.

The closure also brings to an end the most unusual service pattern on
the Underground: M-F peaks and Sunday until mid-afternoon only.


Thanks for the reminder. And a rap on the knuckles of the people who
designed the latest map.... it says that the station would close on
Saturday 10 June whereas technically it's late on Friday 9 June.

As a Brick Lane fan, this station will be sorely missed. I was there just
last night, when I went to the Vibe Bar on Brick Lane to have a few jars -
that turned out to be quite a lot of jars in the end.

I hope they've made the right decision. Personally, I'm not convinced.

Tristán White wrote:
I hope they've made the right decision. Personally, I'm not convinced.

Why do you think that?

Mark Morton wrote in news:4en72hF1foaaoU1
@individual.net:

Tristán White wrote:
I hope they've made the right decision. Personally, I'm not
convinced.

Why do you think that?

Brick Lane is fast becoming one of London's major thoroughfares for late
night bars and clubs, not to mention the restaurants. But it's not the
safest of areas late at night (in case you're wondering, a good mate of
mine was beaten up there by a gang in an unprovoked attack not long
ago). It never has been the safest of areas right from Jack the Ripper
days! :-))

Having an underground station nearby means that it's easy to get in and
out without having to make your way through backstreets to the new
alternative station on Shoreditch High Street. Which is not ready yet as
an alternative (if it goes to schedule, we're looking at June 2010 -
four years to go!)

Therefore, I think they should have extended the current hours of the
station, rather than dispense of a very quaint station.

Another thing: Has anyone studied the impact that 4 year period will
have on Brick Lane market?

But my main reason is much more 'romantic'. It's always sad to see the
death of a station, especially one which has survived two world wars in
one of the country's most heavily blitzed areas. And a Grade II listed
one at that (I am sure palms will be greased and it will be turned into
yet another bunch of offices or something).

Do we really want to lose even more history? Could they not have gone up
to Hoxton from the current station? (surely Brick Lane needed it more
than Shoreditch High Street, which is served excellently nearby by
Liverpool Street station (which has trains going to Hackney area
already). Come on! The old Bishopsgate station was made redundant in the
19th century when Liverpool Street expanded!

I remember seeing PDFs and consultations and stuff on UTL when they were
discussing the exact route north of Whitechapel, but I can't remember
reading a completely convincing argument why they couldn't use the
existing route that used to go to Liverpool Street pre-war (and which
was a goods-only service until the 60s).

If they could have provided an interchange from the ELL-Extension at
Bishopsgate/SHS to the Central Line, I would agree that there is sense
in moving the station to Bishopsgate. But since there's not (another
missed opportunity), what is the exact thinking? Or they could even have
integrated Bishopsgate with Liverpool Street via an escalator link or
something - done a Monument/Bank thing.

But no. So was it really necessary to get rid of another piece of
functional history? A quaint little station, with original wooden floors
in the booking hall, and with the bizarrest opening hours on the whole
network. A great shame.

I'm not an expert, just a 'passenger' (I prefer calling myself a
passenger than a customer, sorry). So my thoughts are largely governed
by personal feelings and sorrow at areas losing a bit of history. I
should add that.

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:38:25 -0500, Tristán White wrote:

Therefore, I think they should have extended the current hours of the
station, rather than dispense of a very quaint station.

Another thing: Has anyone studied the impact that 4 year period will
have on Brick Lane market?

But my main reason is much more 'romantic'. It's always sad to see the
death of a station, especially one which has survived two world wars in
one of the country's most heavily blitzed areas. And a Grade II listed
one at that (I am sure palms will be greased and it will be turned into
yet another bunch of offices or something).

It will no doubt disappoint you to hear the following. I don't know
about the station itself, but according to TfL's ELLX video[1], the
Shoreditch "branch" from the extended ELL, which lies in cutting, will
be filled in. (Presumably this is so they can build offices or
something on it.) This will all but preclude any future use of the
station, or the connection to the GEML.

[1]
http://ellp.tfl.gov.uk/UserFiles/Fil...don%20Line.zip

asdf wrote:

It will no doubt disappoint you to hear the following. I don't know
about the station itself, but according to TfL's ELLX video[1], the
Shoreditch "branch" from the extended ELL, which lies in cutting, will
be filled in. (Presumably this is so they can build offices or
something on it.) This will all but preclude any future use of the
station, or the connection to the GEML.

Not half as much as it would have disappointed to hear that they were
planning to put a thin-walled concrete tunnel over the line and infill
with earth so that they could build above it...
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