Dalston Junction railway station
Dalston Junction (pronounced ) is an inter-modal rail and bus transport interchange in Dalston, London. It is located at the crossroads of Dalston Lane, Kingsland Road and Balls Pond Road. The station served by London Overground East London line and is in Zone 2. The station is located in a short section of cut and cover tunnel north of the Kingsland Viaduct. History. Pre grouping (1867-1923). When the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway (known as the North London Railway (NLR) from 1853) started operating on 26 September 1850, they shared a London terminus  at Fenchurch Street railway station with the London and Blackwall Railway which involved a circuitous route from north London via Hackney, Bow and East Stepney for city bound passengers. An act of parliament saw the NLR apply to build a two-mile extension from Dalston to a new London terminus at Broad Street. This was passed in 1861 and the majority of the line was built on a viaduct now known as the Dalston Viaduct. A significant number of properties were demolished to make way for the new railway. At Dalston there was a junction at the west for trains  towards Willesden, Richmond and Watford whilst to the east a junction was provided for trains towards Hackney, Bow and East India Road. The new Dalston Junction station was provided immediately north of the junction where the two spurs converged. The original railway south of Dalston had three tracks but by 1874 a fourth track had been built to accommodate additional traffic. The station had six platform faces - two for the Poplar services and four for all westbound services - which were numbered from west to east. All the platforms had awnings and structures such as waiting rooms and offices but there  was no overall roof. When the station was opened all services that had been routed via Dalston Kingsland railway station were diverted to Broad Street and Dalston Kingsland closed. These services had previously continued onto Fenchurch Street via Hackney and Bow and were replaced by the Broad Street to Poplar East India Road service via the eastern platforms at Dalston. Between 1870 and 1890 they were extended to the Great Eastern Railway station at Blackwall. On 27 October 1899 Louise Massett murdered her baby son in the station lavatories and became the first person executed in the UK in the  20th Century. In 1916 the two westerly lines were electrified for Broad Street to Richmond services and the two sets of running lines became known as No. 2 Electrics (west side of viaduct) and No 1 Steam (east side of the viaduct). Dalston LNW Goods Yard. The LNWR operated a goods yard that was accessed from Eastern Junction and lay between the eastern and northern curves. The site is currently occupied by Kingsland shopping centre and car park. London Midland & Scottish Railway (1923-1947). Following the Railways Act 1921, also known as the grouping act, operation of the station fell  under the control of the London Midland & Scottish Railway. Sunday services to Poplar were withdrawn on 29 January 1940. Through trains to Kew Bridge were withdrawn in September 1939. Poplar services were withdrawn on 15 May 1944 although a bus replacement service lingered on until 23 April 1945. This was the end of passenger services to the eastern platforms although goods traffic continued to use them until closure of the Broad Street and Shoreditch goods depots. Nationalisation (1948-1986). After nationalisation on 1 January 1948 Dalston Junction was a British Railways London Midland Region railway station. In 1956 some of  the mechanical semaphore signals were replaced by colour light signals. This included some signals that were over 86 feet high. Some scenes from the 1959 film Look Back in Anger were filmed at the station and the film's launch party was held in the station buffet. The reference includes six stills from the film set at the station. Whilst Euston was undergoing redevelopment in the early 1960s, a number of commuter trains were diverted via Dalston Junction to/from Broad Street. The last goods trains to use platforms 5 and 6 ran on 1 March 1965 with official closure  of the east curve following on 4 July 1966. The original street-level buildings were demolished in January 1970. South of Dalston the up No 1. Steam line was taken out of use on 2 January 1966 and the down on 5 November 1969 and were lifted sometime in the early 1970s. Four tracks continued through the station until 8 November 1976 when peak hour Broad Street services to the former GN destinations such as Hertford North were withdrawn. This in turn led to the closure of the signal box on 25 February 1979. Dalston Kingsland railway station reopened on  15 May 1983 and by this time more trains were operating from Woolwich to Stratford and operations to Broad Street reduced. Upon sectorisation in 1982 the London & South Eastern sector took over responsibility for operation of the station and shortly before closure on 10 June 1986 relaunched itself as Network South East. The traffic had been declining for many years at Broad Street and the British Railways Board had sold the land for a new property development. The Broad Street to Dalston West Junction section was closed on 30 June 1986 with the former No 2 electric lines being lifted  soon after. After closure (1986-2010). After that the track bed through the western side of the station remained overgrown and unused until the East London Line extension was opened in 2010. A scrapyard occupied the site of eastern platforms for a period after closure. Later in 2010 a small community garden known as Dalston Eastern Curve Garden was established. Re-opened station (2010 to present). Rebuilding the station for the London Overground network began with site clearance in early 2005. The station was opened by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, on 27 April 2010. A limited weekday "preview