London Underground is selling off what used to be the Shoreditch Station part of the London Underground for around £180,000.
For your money you get a ticket office, lobby, store rooms, machine room and WC although before anyone gets too excited, this is pretty much a surface station rather than something akin to Piccadilly. The station is however close to Spitalfields in the E1 region of London, so handy for the market.
It also looks like the station could do with a lick of paint, although apparently “Griff” has attempted to rectify this by painting his name onto the side of the building. According to Wikipedia, the station was on the East London Line and was closed on the 9 June 2006, and was replaced by Shoreditch High Street on the Overground network.
Details can be found on the auctioneers web site.
As noted by the IanVisits Blog – they could try selling 23 & 24 Leinster Gardens, Paddington which are owned by London Underground….mostly because all you’d get is two fake frontages with the railway running behind and under the road.
