Opened on 1 July 1840 as Shoreditch and renamed Bishopsgate on 27 July 1847, it was the original London passenger terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway. The station was inconveniently located and was replaced as the terminus when Liverpool Street opened in 1874. July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7,421,328 and a metropolitan area population of between 12 and 14 million. ... A terminal station, or terminus (plural: termini) is commonly used to describe a bus station or rail station (US: train station, UK: railway station). ... The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) began operating on June 20 1839 with a train service from a temporary terminus at Mile End to Romford, and working to a gauge of five feet. ... Liverpool Street station Liverpool Street station, also called London Liverpool Street, is a mainline railway station in the north eastern corner of the City of London, in the heart of the financial district, with entrances on Bishopsgate and Liverpool Street itself. ... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

On closure it was converted into a goods station which opened in 1881. The site suffered considerable damage from fire on 5 December 1964 and was closed. The entire site, except for listed buildings, was demolished in 2004 to make way for a planned tube station on the East London Line called Shoreditch High Street tube station. There is currently a Shoreditch tube station station, east of Bishopsgate on the East London Line, which the new station will replace. Another station called Shoreditch was located on the North London Railway at the eastern end of Old Street, to the north. 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The East London Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured orange on the Tube map. ... Shoreditch is a London Underground station located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. ... Shoreditch station (on the corner of Old Street and Kingsland Road) was closed in 1940. ... Originally called the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway and opened between 1850 and 1852, the railway linked the docks at Blackwall to Camden Town. ... Old Street is a road in central London that runs west to east from Clerkenwell to Shoreditch. ...