Draft:Holborn Viaduct Low Level Station

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{{AFC comment|1=This appears to be another name for Holborn Viaduct railway station. If it is not another name for the same former station, please add an explanation of the difference when resubmitting. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:41, 3 March 2025 (UTC)}}

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{{Short description|Former railway station in England}}

{{Draft topics|northern-europe|transportation}}

{{AfC topic|geo}}

{{distinguish|Snow Hill Tunnel (London)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2017}}

{{Infobox London station

| name=Holborn Viaduct Low Level (Snow Hill)

| image_name = Extract of 1889 Railway Map Showing Ludgate Hill & Holborn Viaduct stations.png

| owner = London, Chatham and Dover Railway

| locale = City of London

| platforms = 2.{{cite web |title=Holborn Viaduct Low Level |url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/snow_hill/ |website=Disused Stations |quote=It had two narrow island platforms but the station was rebuilt in 1910 with a single broader island platform.}}

| years1 = {{start date|1874|08|01|df=y}}

| events1 = Opened as Snow Hill

| years2 = {{date|1910|df=y}}

| events2 = Reduced to 1 island platform

| years3 = {{date|1912|05|01|df=y}}

| events3 = Name changed to Holborn Viaduct Low Level

| years15 = {{end date|1916|06|01|df=y}}

| events15 = Closed

| replace = none

}}

Holborn Viaduct Low level was a railway station in the City of London opened by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway on 1 August 1874, as part of the LC&D's City Line route towards the Joint Metropolitan Railway's line in central London. It was situated Between Holborn Viaduct and Snow Hill road{{cite web |title=National Library of Scotland |url=https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.7&lat=51.51732&lon=-0.10421&layers=6&right=ESRIWorld}}, just north of Holborn Viaduct Station, providing interchange for high and low level services.

The station would have been at the foot of the Snow Hill tunnel, Just before entering it. The route would have then advanced through the tunnel and joined onto the route leading onto Farringdon Street and towards King's Cross.

The station was closed in 1916 owing to low passenger usage{{cite web |author1=Nick Catford |title=Snow Hill Station |url=https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/snow-hill-station/ |page=1 |quote=The station was never well used and a census taken in 1911 showed there were fewer arrivals than at any other city station.}}, although the tunnel of the same name had closed much later in the 1960's. Today, some of the platforms remain, however are only visible through a passing train{{cite web |title=Holborn Viaduct Low Level |url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/snow_hill/ |website=Disused Stations |quote=Platforms are partially intact but completely below ground and only visible from a passing train.}}

{{Disused Rail Start}}

{{Rail line|next={{Stnlnk|Ludgate Hill}}
Line open, station closed |previous={{Stnlnk|Farringdon}}
Towards Kings Cross |route=London, Chatham
& Dover Railway
City branch |col={{LCDR colour}} }}

{{s-end}}