Ludgate Hill Railway Station
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Ludgate Hill was a train station in central London . It was opened on June 1, 1865 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LC&DR) and was located on the Ludgate Viaduct between Queen Victoria Street and Ludgate Hill on the western edge of the City of London .
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North of the station, the railway viaduct continued to the Snow Hill Tunnel , which established a connection to the recently opened Metropolitan Railway at Farringdon and thus enabled continuous trains to run between north and south London.
Passenger traffic through the tunnel ceased on June 1, 1916 and the trains only ran a few hundred meters further to the Holborn Viaduct terminus, which was opened in 1874 . Due to the short distance between Holborn Viaduct and Blackfriars , Ludgate Hill station was barely used and finally closed on March 3, 1929.
In 1990 the remains of the station were demolished, as well as the Ludgate Viaduct and the Holborn Viaduct station. Nothing remains of the train station and there is a high-rise office building on the site above a newly constructed tunnel that connects the old Snow Hill tunnel with Blackfriars train station. City Thameslink station is located in the tunnel just north of the old Ludgate Hill station .
literature
- HPWhite: London Railway History (A regional history of the railways of Great Britain, Volume III - Greater London). David and Charles, 1963 and 1971. ISBN 0-7153-5337-3 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 51 ″ N , 0 ° 6 ′ 13.8 ″ W.