Dalston Junc to Hackney closure

I am trying find out when the eastbound section of the triangle closed. Shows freight only 1955 in a rail atlas. https://trainmap.co.uk/map.html?layers=disused This show it but not when completely closed. I am trying to find out if it was ever used to turn the travelling post office trains as these would need to have been turned. This would possibly answer whether I actually saw the TPO there or imagined it. Possible sighting some time 1959 onwards.

The track was removed in 1966 according to the Disused Stations website, link below;

The official closure date was 04/07/66, but the connection had already been severed 02/01/66, and the last use of the curve was on 01/03/65.

47296lastduff said:

The official closure date was 04/07/66, but the connection had already been severed 02/01/66, and the last use of the curve was on 01/03/65.

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Brown’s London Railway Atlas, 4th Edition (Ian Allan, 2015) agrees with the first two dates, as does Hirst’s Register with the first, but states that it was regular goods traffic that ceased on 01/03/1965. So occasional movements could have occurred until the connection was severed.

Gloster said:

So occasional movements could have occurred until the connection was severed.

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Or officially made ‘out of use’?

Looks like a possibility then. This memory would have been 1959 to 1963 at the latest. I moved from Leyton in Feb 1959 and grand parents moved from Hackney about 1963 which is why I would have been on a bus on Dalston Lane.

Gloster said:

Brown’s London Railway Atlas, 4th Edition (Ian Allan, 2015) agrees with the first two dates, as does Hirst’s Register with the first, but states that it was regular goods traffic that ceased on 01/03/1965. So occasional movements could have occurred until the connection was severed.

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So I guess there was a goods yard some were or goods traffic to Broad Street. 1955 atlas shows some sort of a yard half way between Dalson Junc and Broad Street and yard or goods depot at Broad Street.
I wonder had the curved survived long enough would we have seen Overground trains on the ELL to Stratford or on the Poplar line. Surprised the DLR was never extended to Hackney Wick given the endless criticisms that the area of London is devoid of tube/railways.

Kevin51 said:

Looks like a possibility then. This memory would have been 1959 to 1963 at the latest. I moved from Leyton in Feb 1959 and grand parents moved from Hackney about 1963 which is why I would have been on a bus on Dalston Lane.

So I guess there was a goods yard some were or goods traffic to Broad Street. 1955 atlas shows some sort of a yard half way between Dalson Junc and Broad Street and yard or goods depot at Broad Street.
I wonder had the curved survived long enough would we have seen Overground trains on the ELL to Stratford or on the Poplar line. Surprised the DLR was never extended to Hackney Wick given the endless criticisms that the area of London is devoid of tube/railways.

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Brown gives Shoreditch (Dunloe Street) Goods, located on the east side of the line where the current Hoxton station is, as closing on 03/06/1968. Broad Street Goods, to the west of the terminus, closed 27/01/1969.

It can be added that the passenger service over the Eastern Curve was suspended on 15/05/1944 due to enemy action and never reinstated. Whether it was still available for passenger trains is unclear, but Jackson in London Termini (Pan (p.b.), 1972) suggests that the cause of withdrawal was the evacuation from the East End of those who had used an already poorly-patronized service.

EDIT: To add a bit more. Dunloe Street Goods appears to have been an LNWR coal depot, while the north part of Broad Street Goods appears to have been a coal yard for bulk deliveries known as Worship Street. There appear to be articles, which I have only skimmed, if you google Dunloe Street Goods yard or Worship Street Goods yard.

The last "passenger" train over the east curve was an 0400 Devons Road to Broad Street, and then an 0455 return run, unadvertised staff train, which apparently ceased on 9 September 1963 when Devons Road shed closed. Information in the 1963 "Passenger Trains over Unusual Routes". I've wondered what the power and stock was - possibly a Class 20 from Devons Road shed. First entry here: