Shoreditch High Street

I have mixed reviews about this station its a nice big London Overground train station which has lifts to the platforms and wide staircases. Sometimes this station and the platforms are clean and sometimes its dirty with glass bottles of alcohol cans of beer and half eaten food left around on Friday and Saturday nights. Also outside the station is dark and dirty not good at all. But good service with trains mostly on time.

Really nice train station, clean, and convenient.

This station was located close by the hotel i was staying at ( Hub motel) As a American comparing this station and all the others i was at during my vacation to the ones i was at in New York , you could eat off the ground here. London's trains and the Tube were far cleaner ,and the trains themselves were not trashed.

A station close to fashion streets and cool colourful walls with graffiti, movida, a lot of nice food and coffee.

Artistic central area, lot's of graffities... Wikipedia: The station officially opened to the public on 27 April 2010[3] and replaced nearby tube station Shoreditch, which was directly to the east and closed in 2006. Shoreditch High Street is a London Overground station on Bethnal Green Road in the Shoreditch[2], in East London. It is served by the East London Line between Whitechapel and Hoxton with services running either to Dalston Junction, Highbury & Islington or New Cross, New Cross Gate, West Croydon, Crystal Palace, and is in Travelcard Zone 1. On the 1994 planning version of the underground map, the station was called 'Bishopsgate'. In May 2008 Abdal Ullah, a Tower Hamlets London Borough Councillor, called for the new station to be renamed Banglatown, claiming this would better reflect the area in which it will stand, being a centre of the Bangladeshi community. However Transport for London noted that changing the name would cost £2million and "cause confusion".[4] Councillor Ullah had previously campaigned to change the name of Aldgate East Underground station to "Brick Lane".[5] The station was built on the former site of the Eastern Counties Railway's Shoreditch station, built in 1840. The original station was later renamed Bishopsgate and converted for use as a goods yard. It was destroyed by fire in 1964 and remained derelict until being demolished in 2003-04, with the exception of a number of Grade II listed structures: ornamental gates on Shoreditch High Street and the remaining 850 feet (260 m) of the "Braithwaite Viaduct", one of the oldest railway structures in the world and the second-oldest in London, designed by John Braithwaite.[6][7] The present station is built on upright supports as a viaduct, being fully enclosed in a concrete box structure. This is so future building works on the remainder of the Bishopsgate site can be undertaken keeping the station operational. Future buildings have the option of being constructed over the station. The station is situated on a section of track constructed to link the original East London Line and the formerly disused North London Railway's Kingsland Viaduct. Construction of the link included a new bridge over Shoreditch High Street and links to Whitechapel via a bridge over Brick Lane and a ramp on the site of the former Shoreditch tube station.,[8][9] London Overground began running 24-hour trains on Friday and Saturday nights between Dalston Junction and New Cross Gate which called at Shoreditch High Street from 15 December 2017.[10] but bypasses Whitechapel and continues on to Shadwell due to ongoing construction work for Crossrail (Elizabeth line) until 2019.[11] Mondays to Saturdays there is a service every 5–10 minutes throughout the day, while on Sundays before 13:00 there is a service every 5–9 minutes, changing to every 7–8 minutes until the end of service after that.[12] Current off peak frequency per hour is: 8 Northbound to Highbury & Islington 8 Northbound to Dalston Junction 4 Southbound to Crystal Palace 4 Southbound to New Cross 4 Southbound to West Croydon 4 Southbound to Clapham Junction via Peckham Rye London Bus routes 8, 26, 135, 149, 205, 242, 388 and night routes N8, N26 and N205 serve the station on Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road. Routes 149 and 242 operate 24 hours per day.[13][14]

Came here en route back to the car. Lift access to platforms. Didn’t have to wait too long for a train.

Well located and large overground station in the coolest part of town.

Top nosh! Starters were incredible, blend of vegetarian and meat options. The lamb shank was amazing! All dishes were so tasty. Great time with friends and lovely atmosphere with great service to boot. You can't beat Dishoom. You really can't 5/5 every time.

So, yeah, this is basically a railway station, but unlike the other stations, it is a somewhat newer station, namely because it is on the Overground, and a lot of the overground stations were pretty much done on the cheap. Also, the trains don't run as often as other lines, so it really isn't the turn up and go type of station. Like, at least there is a station here, and the overground is useful, but it would be nice if the trains ran a little more often.

The area near the tube station is filled with colorful murals & equally colorful people. There was a walking tour going through the area. On a Saturday afternoon the pubs were overflowing into the streets.

Driving is notoriously tricky in London, so my go-to mode of transportation is the Tube for making my way around the city. The Shoreditch High Street is a fantastic station and hip neighborhood. The attendants are accommodating, and there are tons of things to see and do around this area. The district has an abundant lot of coffee shops, shopping stores, eateries, and Instagramable street art photo opportunities.

Are you in this area? (Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Shoreditch) Do you need transit? Is this one of the options? TAKE IT. I know, reviewing public transit -- right!? Well, someday someone somewhere is going to thank me for pointing them to Shoreditch High Street Overground Station, because its much preferred to nearby stations. For one, I was traveling with a buggy. It's not glamorous in most respects- let me tell you. In fact, it is downright dangerous in a station like Old Street (so many stairs) or Liverpool Street Station (so many people), so I avoid it and usually take the bus. But, let's face it, the bus can take forever and though its street level -- that's about all it has going for it. Shoreditch Street Station has the benefit of being walk-in street level, plus having a very easy lift right to the platforms (one for each platform). It's beyond easy. Obviously weekend riding is much less busy, particularly before the area lights up late day so our journey was so easy peasy. If you are with a buggy or in a wheelchair, this station is tops. Clean, stylish, new, well-equipped and the train is Overground so you can see London whizzing by while reaching your destination. Not bad, not bad at all. If you've crammed into a Nothern Line tube anytime lately, you'll be pleasantly surprised at how nice this is.

Good location for Shoreditch, Hoxton and East London venues...and let me be honest, this gets me to Shadwell where I can connect to the DLR so it's a clear winner for me. The station is quite spacious and I like that. Although the platforms themselves are quite narrow - not so good on busy days and weekends when people seem to have no concept of moving to the side to let others pass along. Brightly lit and very tidy. Lots of maps and station staff too.

This Overground station is, along with Euston Overground Station, the only one located in Zone 1. It's the closest station to Brick Lane and a bunch of bars/restaurants/clubs in the East End. It's got a wheel-chair friendly entrance with no doors and overall is a very modern looking station very near the east side of the city center. Get off here and have a look around!

Perfect for hitting Shoreditch or Brick Lane. Bright and shiny with concrete block plus dramatic staircase. I wish more stations were of this quality of design. Fairly basic cafe bar. UPDATEAnd they have now added a flower shop, sweet stall and coffee van out the front I would still pop round the corner to Allpress..

Very nice new station (very much a Docklands Light Railway feel to this one) not far from the city, but doesn't feel as hectic and unpleasant as the main city stations. I've only used it the once but found it to be very handy.