* Dalston Junction

However, two London Overground lines serve Hackney: the North London Line crosses from west to east while the East London Line runs from Highbury & Islington and passes through Dalston Junction and on south through Haggerston, Hoxton, Shoreditch towards destinations south of the River Thames, including Crystal Palace, Croydon, and New Cross.

East London Line Travelling north to south — nearest London Overground stations are Dalston Junction, Haggerston, Hoxton and Shoreditch High Street

John Rocque's map of circa 1746 shows the village of Kingsland centred around the crossroads at Dalston Junction and the small village of Dalston further east along Dalston Lane.

The process of change has been accelerated since the East London line extension ( to be renamed the East London Railway on completion ) and since the reopening of Dalston Junction Station was confirmed in the run-up to London's successful bid to hold the 2012 Olympics.

It is currently undergoing rapid gentrification, partly because of the construction of a new railway station at Dalston Junction, part of the extension of the East London Line completed in 2010 and partly due to the revitalisation of large parts of east London in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics ( Hackney is one of the four host boroughs of the Games ).

Since May 2010, New Cross station has also been served by London Overground services to Dalston Junction, after the East London Line reopened as part of the National Rail network.

A spur connecting the North London Railway at Dalston to Stratford, forming a part of the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway, opened in 1847 for the carriage of coal.

The Secretary of State for Transport announced in February 2009 the allocation of £ 75 million for extending the London Overground East London Line to Clapham Junction, a link which will connect Clapham Junction through Peckham Rye to Dalston Junction in north-east London.

Once the extension is complete, there will therefore be four tracks between Dalston ( Western ) Junction and shortly east of Camden Road.

Passengers can easily make a brief interchange at Dalston Junction for trains to Highbury and Islington

Nearby railway stations offer services to other destinations: London Bridge station can be reached from North Dulwich ; and Denmark Hill will have trains to Clapham Junction in south-west London and Dalston Junction in north-east London when Phase II of London Overground's East London line extension is completed in December 2012.

The remaining single platform was used until the last train left on 27 June 1986, when the station was finally closed along with Dalston Junction, the other remaining station on the North London Line's City branch.

This arrangement lasted until 1865, when an extension from Dalston Junction to Broad Street was opened ; Broad Street became the main terminus, and the Poplar line became a branch.

The line from Dalston Junction to Poplar was heavily damaged during The Blitz.

The section from Broad Street to Dalston Junction was closed on 30 June 1986.

In 1979 the line between Richmond and Dalston via Gospel Oak, plus the spur line to Stratford, was joined with the former Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway to form what is known today as the North London Line.

* Dalston Junction ( closed 1986, reopened 2010 )

Kingsland railway station was first opened on the site in 1850, but was replaced by Dalston Junction in 1865.

Work on the extension of the East London Line commenced and the line closed on 22 December 2007 and reopened on 27 April 2010 when tracks on a new alignment were connected to a disused North London Line viaduct from Shoreditch to Dalston.

In London Rabbi Dessler served in the rabbinate, initially in the East End and later in Dalston, Northeast London.

The East London Line Extension has taken over the previously abandoned stretch between Dalston and Shoreditch.

A meeting in the East End of London on 4 October 1964 was attacked by opponents, as was another in Dalston the following October whilst earlier, in August 1965, Tyndall had been shot at five times whilst in the group's headquarters in Norwood.

Dalston Junction re-opened on 27 April 2010 on the London Overground East London Line extension, with interchange permitted between it and Dalston Kingsland.

It is currently in use on London Overground's East London Line, between Dalston Junction and New Cross Gate.

The nearest stations are Dalston Junction to the north-east and Haggerston to the south-east, both on the East London Line branch of the London Overground.

In the first phase of the extension of the East London Line, Dalston Junction was the temporary northern terminus for all trains.

In March 1977 the Desperate Bicycles booked a studio at Dalston in East London to record their first single.

** – The newly extended East London Railway begins full service between West Croydon, Crystal Palace and Dalston Junction, following a preview service from April 27 as far south as New Cross and New Cross Gate stations.

It is proposed that Crossrail 2, the ' Chelsea-Hackney Line ', would provide a direct Underground service to Hackney Central, Dalston and Homerton, although it is currently undecided whether this would be built as London Underground or main line specifications.

North London Line Travelling west to east — nearest London Overground stations are Dalston Kingsland, Hackney Central, Homerton and Hackney Wick

Dalston is a district of north-east London, England, located in the London Borough of Hackney.

Modern Dalston is often seen as the area surrounding both sides of Kingsland High Street, even though some of the west side is within the London Borough of Islington.

Around AD 1280 a leper hospital was founded in Dalston by the citizens of London and in AD 1549 it was attached to the chapel of St Bartholomew as an outhouse.

Dalston, looking south towards City of London | The City.

* The Prodigy made their live debut at Labyrinth in Dalston, London ’ s Four Aces Club in 1990.

The nearest National Rail stations are Dalston Kingsland ( North London Line )

The main railway station is called Sydenham which links to Croydon, Penge, Forest Hill, New Cross, Shoreditch, Dalston and the major terminii London Bridge and London Victoria.

Dalston Kingsland railway station is a railway station on the North London Line in London, England.

This station passed in due course to the London and North Western Railway and later on to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, which closed the entire North London Line east of Dalston Junction in 1944.

A little further to the north of Dalston Junction is Dalston Kingsland which is on the North London Line branch of the London Overground.

Dalston Junction has been proposed as a station on the Chelsea – Hackney Line route between and, should it be built.