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Opened on 1st July 1840 as Shoreditch and renamed Bishopsgate on 27th July 1847, it was the original London passenger terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway. The station was inconveniently located and was replaced as the terminus when Liverpool Street opened in 1874.

On closure it was converted into a goods station which opened in 1881. The site suffered considerable damage from fire on 5th December 1964 and was closed. The entire site, except for listed buildings, was demolished in 2004 to make way for a planned tube station on the East London Line called Shoreditch High Street tube station . There is currently a ShoreditchShoreditch is a London Underground station in Shoreditch, east London. It is in zone 2, and is the northern terminus of the East London Line. The next station along is Whitechapel. The service to Shoreditch is currently limited to rush-hours on weekdays a station, east of there on the East London Line adjacent to Brick LaneBrick Lane is a street in the East End of London, site of a Sunday market, heart of the city's Bengali community, former heart of the city's Jewish community, and before that, of its Huguenot community. The Sunday market at Brick Lane, like the one nearby, which it will replace.

Another ShoreditchShoreditch station (on the corner of Old Street and Kingsland Road) was closed in 1940. The station was on the North London Railway line between Dalston Junction and Broad Street station. The line was closed in 1986. Several other stations at different lo station on the North London RailwayOriginally called the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway and opened between 1850 and 1852, the railway linked the docks at Blackwall to Camden Town. It was renamed the North London Railway in 1853. Its first City terminus was Fenchurch was at the eastern end of Old Street, to the north.

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