Accessible Yes Address London, United Kingdom | Station code SDC Fare zone 1 Opened 2010 Number of platforms 2 | |
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Local authority Similar Shoreditch tube station, Dalston Junction railway st, Hoxton railway station, Haggerston railway station, Highbury & Islington station | ||
Shoreditch High Street is a station on the East London Line. Despite its name, the station lies just outside Shoreditch in the Bethnal Green area of Tower Hamlets.
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The station is served by London Overground services under the control of the London Rail division of Transport for London and is in Travelcard Zone 1.
The station officially opened to the public on 27 April 2010 with services running between Dalston Junction and New Cross or New Cross Gate. On 23 May 2010 services were extended from New Cross Gate to West Croydon or Crystal Palace. The station replaced nearby London Underground Shoreditch, which was directly to the east of the station being closed on 9 June 2006. The next station to the south is Whitechapel and to the north is Hoxton.
History
On the 1994 planning version of the underground map, the station was called 'Bishopsgate'.
Construction
The station was built on the former site of the Eastern Counties Railway's Shoreditch station, built in 1840, The original station was later renamed Bishopsgate and converted for use as a goods yard. It was destroyed by fire in 1964 and remained derelict until being demolished in 2005. The present station is built on upright supports as a viaduct, being fully enclosed in a concrete box structure. This is so future building works on the remainder of the Bishopsgate site can be undertaken keeping the station operational. Future buildings have the option of being constructed over the station. The station is situated on a section of track constructed to link the original East London Line and the formerly disused North London Railway's Kingsland Viaduct. Construction of the link included a new bridge over Shoreditch High Street and links to Whitechapel via a bridge over Brick Lane and a ramp on the site of the former Shoreditch tube station.
Services
All times below are correct as of the December 2012 timetables.
London Overground (East London Line)
Mondays to Saturdays there is a service every 5–10 minutes throughout the day, while on Sundays before 13:00 there is a service every 5–9 minutes, changing to every 7–8 minutes until the end of service after that. Current off peak frequency per hour is:
Buses
Ten London Buses routes serve the station: 8, 26, 135, 149, 205, 242, 388, N8, N26, N205. Additional 149 and 242 are 24-hours routes.
Plans
In May 2008 Abdal Ullah, a Tower Hamlets London Borough Councillor, called for the new station to be renamed Banglatown, claiming this would better reflect the area in which it will stand, being a centre of the Bangladeshi community. However Transport for London noted that changing the name would cost £2million and "cause confusion". Mr Ullah had previously campaigned to change the name of Aldgate East tube station to "Brick Lane".
There have also been discussions of creating an interchange with the Central line between Liverpool Street and Bethnal Green which runs almost underneath the station. However, this would not be able to happen until after the Crossrail 1 project is complete, due to extreme crowding on the Central line during peak times.