Maiden Lane railway stations
There have been two
Great Northern Railway station
This station, opened on 7 August 1850 as the "London Temporary Passenger Station", was the temporary London terminus of the
North London Railway station
On 7 December 1850, the East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway (later to become the North London Railway) opened from Highbury & Islington to its Camden Town station (since renamed Camden Road), with intermediate stations at Maiden Lane and Caledonian Road & Barnsbury.
This Maiden Lane station - 51°32′27″N 0°07′37″W / 51.540917°N 0.127051°W - was a short distance northwest of the Great Northern Railway station and near the present High Speed 1 tunnel portal. It also served King's Cross Goods Yard. It closed in 1916 [2] or 1917,[3] after the LNWR in 1916 electrified the southern pair of the four tracks for passenger services, leaving the northern pair, on which the station was built, solely for steam-hauled goods traffic.
Camden Council has suggested this station could be rebuilt and reopened, in conjunction with the King's Cross Central redevelopment project.[4]
In June 2017, the Council were talking with
References
- ^ "Kings Cross Station". The London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
- ^ Islington: Communications, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (1985), pp. 3-8 accessed: 25 July 2008
- ^ Jowett's Railway Centres Volume 1 (Alan Jowett, published PSL 1993)
- ^ King's Cross Development plan
- ^ "Two new stations set to arrive?". Islington Tribune. Retrieved 4 October 2020.