Maiden Lane [NLL]
This graffiti-scarred bridge (how do the culprits get up there?) across York Way to the north of Kings Cross carries the London Overground line that opened with the extension of the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway in December 1850 from Highbury & Islington to Camden Town (renamed Camden Road 100 years later in 1950). The name was changed to the simpler North London Railway in 1853 and in 1887 the NLR opened Maiden Lane station on the embankment to the west of this bridge (left of picture) and it retained that name even after the thoroughfare was changed to York Road and has since been changed again to York Way. This station only lasted 30 years, closing as a WWI economy in 1917 and never reopened. Remains of the platforms and some of the buildings were still visible in the 1960s but have now disappeared although there are some scant remains of the entrance at street level. This view is through the front upstairs windows of a TfL 'New Routemaster' bus on route 390 to Archway about to pass under the bridge on 3rd September 2021.
Location: Maiden Lane [NLL] (former)
Original line: East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Disused London stations 1981-2023
Date: 03/09/2021
Image number: 78336
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