Bishopsgate Goods Yard

Bishopsgate
Bishopsgate Location of Bishopsgate in Central London
Location	Shoreditch High Street
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Railway companies
Original company	Eastern Counties Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 July 1840 (1840-07-01)	Opened as Shoreditch
27 July 1846	Renamed Bishopsgate
1 November 1875	Closed to passengers
5 December 1964	Closed to freight
Replaced by	Bishopsgate (Low Level) and Liverpool Street
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°31′24″N 0°04′36″W / 51.5234°N 0.0768°W / 51.5234; -0.0768Coordinates: 51°31′24″N 0°04′36″W / 51.5234°N 0.0768°W / 51.5234; -0.0768

Bishopsgate was a railway station located on the eastern side of Shoreditch High Street in the parish of Bethnal Green (now within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets) on the western edge of the East End of London and just outside the City of London.

It was in use from 1840 to 1875 as a passenger station and then as a freight terminal until it was destroyed by fire in 1964. Substantial remains lay derelict until they were demolished in the early 2000s to make way for Shoreditch High Street railway station which now stands on the site.

The station was opened with the name Shoreditch (or London) by the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) on 1 July 1840 to serve as its new permanent terminus when the railway was extended westwards from an earlier temporary terminus at Devonshire Street, near Mile End. The station was renamed Bishopsgate on 27 July 1846 with the intention of drawing more City commuters by naming it after the major thoroughfare in the heart of the financial district.

In 1862, the ECR amalgamated with a number of other East Anglian railway companies to form the Great Eastern Railway (GER). For a time the GER also used Fenchurch Street as a terminus but a lack of capacity led the GER to build a new terminus for its services at Liverpool Street which opened in 1874. Bishopsgate station was closed to passenger traffic in November 1875 and then extensively reconstructed between 1878 and 1880 to convert it into a goods station. "By May 1880 the old facade and side walls had been completely removed."