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Shern Hall Street was a
railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
on the
Chingford branch line The Chingford branch line is a railway line between Clapton Junction (just northeast of Clapton station) and Chingford station. Services run between Liverpool Street station and Chingford, and are operated by London Overground.See West Anglia ...
located in
Walthamstow Walthamstow ( or ) is a town within the London Borough of Waltham Forest in east London. The town borders Chingford to the north, Snaresbrook and South Woodford to the east, Leyton and Leytonstone to the south, and Tottenham to the west. At ...
. The station was opened on 26 April 1870 as the terminus of a new single-track branch line from Lea Bridge junction on the
Northern and Eastern Railway The Northern & Eastern Railway (N&ER) was an early British railway company, that planned to build a line from London to York. Its ambition was cut successively back, and it was only constructed from Stratford, east of London, to the towns of Bi ...
's original line from Stratford. This section is today referred to as the Temple Mills branch. The station had a short operational life and was closed on 17 November 1873 when the line was extended northwards to
Chingford Chingford is a suburban town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The centre of Chingford is north-east of Charing Cross, with Waltham Abbey to the north, Woodford Green and Buckhurst Hill to the east, Walt ...
with a new station opening at Wood Street to the east as its replacement. This is now the Weaver route on the Overground.


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* Disused railway stations in the London Borough of Waltham Forest Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1870 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1873 {{London-railstation-stub