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longest time closed for a station which has re-opened

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Dalston Kingsland has been nominated. Closed on 1.11.1865 when Dalston Junction opened. Re-opened 16.5.1983. I make that a few months short of 118 years.
Dalston Junction closed from 30.6.1986 to 27.4.2010 so the two stations did have a short overlap in the 80s but now seem to co-exist happily.
 
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Dalston Kingsland has been nominated. Closed on 1.11.1865 when Dalston Junction opened. Re-opened 16.5.1983. I make that a few months short of 118 years.
Dalston Junction closed from 30.6.1986 to 27.4.2010 so the two stations did have a short overlap in the 80s but now seem to co-exist happily.
I can’t compete with that time span but the new Thanet Parkway station which is currently being built is more or less on the site of Ebbsfleet and Cliffsend Halt which closed in 1933.
 

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Presumably in a few years time Birmingham Curzon Street will take the crown and be pretty unbeatable (about 170 years, depending on when it reopens)
 

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Doesn't beat Dalston, but the longest span on the Underground is probably Tower Hill.

The original Tower of London station closed was open for just over two years from September 1882 to October 1884, when it was replaced by Mark Lane slightly to the West.

Mark Lane (renamed Tower Hill in September 1946) closed in February 1967, being replaced by the current station, located on the site of the old Tower of London station.

That gives a period of closure of just over 82 years.
 

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Bishopsgate station the original terminius of the Easter Counties Railway, closed 1873. Shoreditch High Street, built on part of the site as a component of the extended East London line (and at one time planned to be called Bishopsgate) opened 2010 giving 137 years. Does that count?
 

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How about temporary long term unofficial closures e.g Wedgwood and Barlaston? Has there ever been a really long unofficial closure?
 

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The present station (the third) at Polegate opened in 1986 was opened on the site of the first station closed in 1881- a gap of 105 years
( the second station situated a few hundred yards east was open between 1881-1986).

The recently London Underground station of Nine Elms revives a station name last used by passengers in 1848.

The record will be broken when Birmingham Curzon Street opens on HS2...............!
 
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