Holloway car dock
| Holloway car dock | |
|---|---|
 Holloway Cattle Dock, 1953 | |
  Holloway car dock Location of Holloway car dock in Greater London | |
| Location | Holloway |
| Local authority | Islington |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Key dates | |
| 1855 | Opened |
| 1930s | closed |
| 30 May 1960 | opened |
| 15 September 1968 | Closed |
| Replaced by | Kensington Olympia Motorail |
| Other information | |
| Coordinates | 51°33′00″N 0°07′01″W / 51.54989°N 0.11695°W |
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Holloway car dock was a railway station in London, England.
Cattle dock
[edit]It opened to the east of Caledonian Road as the Holloway cattle dock in 1855 and served the Metropolitan Cattle Market. The cattle dock closed in the 1930s.[1]
Car dock
[edit]The station was located on the up (towards London) side of the East Coast Main Line.[2] It had a single platform that faced two tracks and had a dock for loading cars. Car carrier service began on 30 May 1960.[3]
It became the London terminus of the seasonal Car-Sleeper Limited service to Perth, Scotland that had been running to Kings Cross from June 1955. Departures to Perth were at 21:10 each evening and the return service arrived at 05:30 each morning. The Perth overnight car sleeper service ended at Holloway in October 1965 and transferred to Kensington Olympia station from 1966 with the introduction of Motorail branded services.[1]
There was also a daytime Anglo-Scottish Car Carrier service from the Holloway dock to Edinburgh, departing on weekdays at 07:51 and with a return service arriving at 19:02.[4] In 1965 the service was promoted by British Rail with images of James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 from the 1964 film Goldfinger being loaded onto the car carrier service at Holloway.[5]
The car dock was last served on 15 September 1968.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Hill, N. (2018). King's Cross Second Man: A Sixties Diesel Career. United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Books.
- ^ Allen, G. F. (1981). The Eastern Since 1948. United Kingdom: I. Allan.
- ^ a b Quick, M. E. (2014). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: A Chronology. Fourth supplement. United Kingdom: Railway & Canal Historical Society.
- ^ Rail Express, Motorail: Cars by Train, 6 January 2021
- ^ "James Bond 007 lets the train take the strain".
