North Woolwich Railway Station
| North Woolwich | |
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 Exterior view of the train station
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| opening | 1847 |
| Conveyance | 2006 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | London |
| London Borough | London Borough of Newham |
| Part of the country | England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 29 '58 " N , 0 ° 3' 44" E |
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| List of train stations in the United Kingdom | |
The North Woolwich railway station was a railway station in the London Borough of Newham on the north bank of the Thames . It was the terminus of the North London Line and was in service from 1847 to 2006.
history
The station opened in 1847 when the Stratford - Canning Town line of the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway (EC & JTR) , which had already been in operation in 1846 , was extended to North Woolwich. In 1862 the EC & JTR was taken over by the Great Eastern Railway and the station fell into new hands. The trains were tied through Stratford over the Lea Valley Line and a now disused connection to the East Coast Main Line to Palace Gates station in Tottenham . After the connection under the Beeching ax was closed, the trains were switched to diesel operation and the connection to Stratford or Tottenham Hale was shortened.
When it was decided to shut down Broad Street Station in the 1980s, most of the trains running over the North London Line were connected to the trains on the last remaining former EC & JTR line. Since then, North Woolwich Station has been part of the North London Line. At the same time, the route was rebuilt. Instead of a bridge, it now led through the 550-meter-long Connaught Tunnel under the Royal Docks. At the time, the bridge was used to distribute the various EC & JTR rail lines, some of which reached as far as Gallions or Beckton . In the course of these renovations, it was dismantled on a track. For North Woolwich, this meant the closure of the reception building and a track. In 1984, the North Woolwich Old Station Museum was established in the station building and on the disused track . A year later, the line was electrified with a conductor rail. In the course of the privatization of British Rail in 1997, the station was owned by the Silverlink Metro , which had acquired the North London Line franchise.
On December 9, 2006, the North London Line between Stratford and North Woolwich was shut down to make room for the extension of the Docklands Light Railway via City Airport to Dock King George V / Woolwich Arsenal . While Stratford, West Ham , Canning Town and Custom House will continue to operate as DLR and underground stations and the line between Stratford and Canning Town will even be converted into a DLR line by 2011, the stations in Silvertown and North Woolwich have been closed . Although the southern part of the route will be used for Crossrail from 2018 , there are no plans to resume rail operations in North Woolwich.
Shortly after the shutdown, the London Borough of Newham came up with plans to operate a museum railway called the Royal Docks Heritage Railway , which had taken over the old NLL route between Custom House and North Woolwich including the museum. The aim was to display old vehicles used in all of London's local railways. After it became known that the Crossrail project would use most of the planned route, the project was canceled.
North Woolwich Old Station Museum
The station building, closed in 1979, was reopened in 1984 as the North Woolwich Old Station Museum . The museum included pieces from the Great Eastern Railway and also dealt with the history of the railways in east London. In addition to model railways, exhibits were also a steam locomotive, which, however, was no longer operational. After the station was closed and the decision against the Royal Docks Heritage Railway , the end of the museum was also heralded: It closed its doors in November 2008.
The station building has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 1998 , including the turntable and platform lamps.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.londonrail.org.uk/railschool/bott/NewsfromNorthWoolwich_Edn1_2007-03-03.pdf
- ↑ http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/North_Woolwich_line_4.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/North_Woolwich_line_8.html
- ↑ http://www.railschool.org/railway/index.htm
- ↑ http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/North_Woolwich_line_9.html
- ↑ http://www.gersociety.org.uk/nwosm.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ North Woolwich Station. (No longer available online.) In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 9, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
