There have been tworailway stations namedMaiden Lane in the presentLondon Borough of Camden, in northLondon,England. The stations, named after the nearby road (nowYork Way), were close to each other, but on different lines.
This station, opened on 7 August 1850 as the "London Temporary Passenger Station", was the temporary London terminus of theGreat Northern Railway. It was opened so that the railway could earn revenue from visitors travelling to visit theGreat Exhibition of 1851. Covered by a double-span train shed, there were two platforms and two release roads. The main station buildings were on thedown side of the station. The station served passengers until 14 October 1852, when the last section of theEast Coast Main Line andKing's Cross station were opened. The station subsequently served as a potato warehouse before it was demolished,[1] some time after 1874.
On 7 December 1850, the East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway (later to become theNorth London Railway) opened fromHighbury & Islington to its Camden Town station (since renamedCamden Road), with intermediate stations at Maiden Lane andCaledonian Road & Barnsbury.
This Maiden Lane station –51°32′27″N0°07′37″W / 51.540917°N 0.127051°W /51.540917; -0.127051 –- was a short distance northwest of the Great Northern Railway station and near the presentHigh Speed 1 tunnel portal. It also servedKing's Cross Goods Yard. It closed in 1916[2] or 1917,[3] after theLNWR in 1916 electrified the southern pair of the four tracks for passenger services, leaving the northern pair, on which the station was built, solely for steam-hauled goods traffic.
Camden Council has suggested this station could be rebuilt and reopened, in conjunction with theKing's Cross Central redevelopment project.[4]
In June 2017, the Council were talking withTfL on the possible reopening of Maiden Lane andYork Road stations which it wished to reopen with Maiden Lane more likely to reopen than York Road.[5]
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