Bishopsgate railway station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway

Great Eastern Railway

The Great Eastern Railway was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia...

 (GER) on 4 November 1872 alongside the company's first London terminus, , which stood on a viaduct. The newer station was on a lower route, leading south-west, which the GER was building to its new Liverpool Street

Liverpool Street station

Liverpool Street railway station, also known as London Liverpool Street or simply Liverpool Street, is both a central London railway terminus and a connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, England...

 terminus and was on Quaker Street, on the eastern side of Shoreditch High Street

Shoreditch High Street

Shoreditch High Street is the old main street of Shoreditch, London. It is part of the A10 road and connects Norton Folgate to the south with Kingsland Road to the north. It constitutes a segment of the Roman Ermine Street, which ran directly north from London to Lincoln and York...

 now in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

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 but then in the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green

Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green was a civil parish and a metropolitan borough in the East End of London, England. It was formed as a civil parish in 1743 from the Bethnal Green hamlet in Stepney ancient parish. The vestry became an electing authority to the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and in 1889 it became...

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In 1875 the high level station closed to passengers and the low level station was renamed "Bishopsgate". The high level terminus, rebuilt as a goods station, reopened in 1881 as "Bishopsgate Goods Depot" with a subway linking it to the passenger station.

The station was closed on 22 May 1916 with other inner suburban stations on the GER line through the East End

East End of London

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. Little is left of the station except two platforms visible from trains serving Liverpool Street.

External links

• Bishopsgate Low Level Station from Subterranea Britannica.