East Brixton railway station
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Station in 1963.
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| Location | |
| Place | Brixton, South London |
| Area | London Borough of Lambeth |
| Coordinates | 51°27′49″N 0°06′26″W / 51.4636°N 0.1073°WCoordinates: 51°27′49″N 0°06′26″W / 51.4636°N 0.1073°W |
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| Original company | London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LBSCR) |
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| 1866 | opened as Loughborough Park |
| 1870 | renamed Loughborough Park and Brixton |
| 1894 | renamed East Brixton |
| 5 January 1976 | Closed |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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East Brixton railway station was a railway station on the South London Line from London Victoria to London Bridge. It was located next to the rail bridge over Barrington Road, near Coldharbour Lane, in Brixton, London and closed in 1976.
East Brixton opened in 1866 as Loughborough Park. It consisted of two platforms with wooden buildings on high piers next to the railway viaduct. In 1870 the station was renamed Loughborough Park and Brixton, before it was finally renamed East Brixton in 1894. Passenger services were operated by the Southern Railway and after nationalisation by the Southern Region of British Railways.
The station was included in a proposal published in 1905 by the Australian engineer Elfric Wells Chalmers Kearney for an underground monorail-type railway. The plans for the Kearney High-Speed Railway envisaged running a tube line from Cricklewood via central London, Brixton and Herne Hill to Crystal Palace, but were never realised.
East Brixton station made a brief appearance in the 1948 comedy film, A Date with a Dream. It is seen in the background of scene in which two soldiers (played by Len Lowe and Bill Lowe) walk along Barrington Road.
Over the years the station became progressively neglected and lost passengers from 1971 when Brixton tube station, the southern terminus of the new Victoria line, opened nearby. With declining passenger numbers and the station requiring extensive repairs to the wooden platforms and buildings it was decided that the expense was not justified. There was a fire in 1975 which temporarily closed the station but the station reopened and was finally closed on 5 January 1976. The platforms and its buildings were demolished shortly after closure. Nothing now remains of the station at track level: there are some arches and windows in the viaduct of the still used line.
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