Junction Road railway station (originally Junction Road for Tufnell Park) was a railway station in

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(1872-1943). The station was opened by the

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. It was at the corner of

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and its purpose-built spur, Station Road, in N19 between the districts of

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and

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then in the tapering north of the old parish of Islington. It comprised two wooden platforms, accessed by means of a footbridge and stairs, and also served the nearby

goods depot. Trains from the station generally ran between St Pancras or

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; however, over its history trains ran to a number of other locations including

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and

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Highgate Road station area Railway Plan, 1914

It was initially very heavily used, mainly owing to the nearby

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; at its peak, it was used in 1902 by over 140,000 passengers. When the nearby Tufnell Park Underground station was opened on the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (now the

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), passenger levels dropped drastically; in a 1937 poem, John Betjeman set a dark poetic lament at "this lonely station".Suicide on Junction Road Station after Abstention from Evening Communion in North London
in ''John Betjeman Collected Poems'' 2006 editions, John Murray (Publishers); featured in other editions The station was closed on 3 May 1943 and demolished in the early 1950s; the only remaining evidence of the station are the name "Station Road" and the old Station Master's House on Junction Road. The Gospel Oak to Barking Line is the name for the current, longer line. Calls for this station to be rebuilt, offering an interchange with the Northern line were amassed and presented in 2013. The Mayor of London and Transport for London jointly replied in a standard response to unfunded proposals to non-needy areas in public transport. They had no plans to do so; they will keep the possibility under review.

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