Current Status
Shoreditch tube station closed permanently on 9 June 2006, to allow work to begin on the East London line extension. It has been replaced by a new station, Shoreditch High Street. The new line and station form part of the London Overground network, a suburban rail service operated by Transport for London but separate from the Tube network.
Unlike other closed stations, Transport for London provided a temporary service to Shoreditch - until the new line fully opened in 2010, a non-stop rail replacement bus connected Shoreditch with Whitechapel using the station's previous limited opening hours.
The cutting in and around the station area has been filled in and partly reused for the line from Whitechapel (also in a cutting) to the replacement Shoreditch High Street (on an embankment). The station building still exists and was put up for sale by TfL in February 2010. On 16 February 2011, the building was sold at auction for a price of £665,000. Current plans call for the station building to be demolished and the bricks to be re-used for a six story block of flats.
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