Latest News
Things to Remember for a Hassle-Free Overseas Moving westminster removals Read more »
Westminster removals Moving? Here's Why You Should Consider Hiring a Moving Truck Read more »
Westminster removals Make Relocation Stress-Free by Hiring a Moving Company Read more »
Westminster removals Move Out with a Moving Services Company Read more »
Removals westminster Moving out to a New House with your Lovely Pets Read more »
Places of interest in SE16
The station was opened on 7 December 1869,[4] when the first section of East London Railway was opened. On 1 October 1884, the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways began running services along the East London Railway, which called at Rotherhithe. It was served by electric passenger trains from 31 March 1913, when the line was electrified. Steam-hauled goods trains from Liverpool Street station continued to pass through until April 1966.
London Overground services commenced on the East London Line on 27 April 2010, as the replacement extension of the historic tube line.
Much of the area is now going through a phase of rapid development, with new residential developments, a new library, cafés and restaurants, and outdoor leisure facilities being built around the lake; there are also plans to redevelop the shopping mall.
After English Heritage later discovered the damage was far more severe than previously thought, they stopped insisting on full restoration, albeit over the objections of the architectural conservationists who favoured reconstruction.[8] Baltic Exchange sold the land to Trafalgar House in 1995.[9] Most of the remaining structures on the site were then carefully dismantled, the interior of Exchange Hall and the façade were preserved, hoping for a reconstruction of the building in the future.[9]
The station was the first to be constructed inside the City; the original station was designed by William Tite and was opened on 20 July 1841[6] for the London and Blackwall Railway (L&BR), replacing a nearby terminus at Minories that had opened in July 1840. The station was rebuilt in 1854, following a design by George Berkeley, adding a vaulted roof and the main facade. The station became the London terminus of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR) in 1858; additionally, from 1850 until the opening of Broad Street station in 1865 it was also the City terminus of the North London Railway. The Great Eastern Railway (GER) also used the station as an alternative to an increasingly overcrowded Liverpool Street station for the last part of the 19th and first half of the 20th century over the routes of the former Eastern Counties Railway.[7] The L&BR effectively closed in 1926 after the cessation of passenger services east of Stepney. When the former Eastern Counties lines transferred to the Central line in 1948 the LT&SR became the sole user of the station.
Information by Wikipedia.com
|