Located on the main line out of London from Liverpool Street, Coborn Road station was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1865.
The first station closed in 1919 with permanent closure following in 1946, with passengers now being served by the nearby Bow Road station on the District Line, Mile End on the District line and Central Line and the more recent Bow Church station on the DLR.
I spotted the station remains at the end of my Olympic stadium walk on Saturday, and grabbed a All that remains of the station now is this entrance façade and the tracks above being around a long-gone platform.
A few more photos and more info here: Coborn Road railway station.
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Would love to go through the blue door, don’t know why. Perhaps it’s because it looks rather mysterious, perhaps it’s just me being nosey!
I used to live at the end of Coburn Road in Antill Road. It was lovely. Very well to do now because of the olympic stadium and yes this was an old railway station that shut in 1941 so I was told.
By the way I would love to see photo’s of Pratts before it closed in Streatham High Road in Summer 1990. I lived in Brixton too. It has a wealth of architectural history and compared to Streatham still looks fairly good for her age whereas Streatham has gone from Princess to Cinderella especially since Pratts went taking Russell and Bromley and god knows so many other stores too. By the way The Goose Pub would have been an art deco Burton Menswear store with a billiard hall on first floor as there are many ex Burton stores like that remaining in London though no longer Burton Menswear and other fine examples.
Coburn Road L.N.E.R. station was destroyed by a Doodlebug (V1) in 1944, causing the
trains to terminate and us struggling to complete the journey as best we might