St Mary's tube station

St Mary's ( Whitechapel Road) is the name of a closed London Underground station. It is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets between today's stations Aldgate East and Whitechapel. In operation it was from 1884 until 1938.

History

Under the name of St Mary's opened on March 3, 1884, the station from both the Metropolitan District Railway (now the District Line ) as well as of the Metropolitan Railway (now the Metropolitan Line) was served. The station was from the start very small and narrow. She lay very close to the stations Whitechapel and Aldgate on a tight corner, just before the confluence with the East London Line.

In 1921 was built around the previously detached station building a cinema. On January 26, 1923 were added to the station name to the text in parentheses. The station St Mary's ( Whitechapel Road) was closed on 30 April 1938. Reason was the relocation of the station Aldgate East to the east; its eastern exit was only a few hundred meters away.

During the Second World War, the station should serve as an air raid shelter. By building a brick wall they separated the platform from the still -standing tracks in operation. Even before the adaptation work was completed, however, hit a bomb on 22 October 1940, the station building on the surface and damaged it severely. The remains had to be demolished, so that today only a little reminiscent of that station. Although we built a new access to the air -raid shelter, but this was on April 19, 1941 also destroyed.

The walled platforms are still reachable via a discreet door in a side street of Whitechapel Road to the staff of London Underground. During the trip, you can still see the brick walls of the train from the site of the former station. The curve joining the East London Line still bears the name of St Mary 's Curve. It is no longer used since the 6th of October 1941 in the normal trains, but only for the exchange of rolling stock between the different lines. As the East London Line since 2010 belongs to the network of London Overground, meanwhile eliminating the need for the rolling stock exchange; However, the tunnel remains.