The BBC have a couple of short profiles of St Mary’s station up on their website. The station featured in last night’s episode of The London Nobody Knows (which can be found on iPlayer here) and there is also a short video up of a station visit here.
St Mary’s was originally both a District and East London Line station which permanently closed in 1938 when Aldgate East gained a more easterly entrance. It had a brief rebirth as an air raid shelter during the Second World War, but was bombed out in 1940.
It lived on, to a certain degree, through the St Mary’s Curve, which continued to link the ELL to the Metropolitan Line tracks, but that link was finally removed (although the tunnel still remains) when the ELL was rebuilt and refurbished by TfL.
As usual, there are also some excellent pictures of the station on Abandoned Stations here.
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