Woodgrange Park railway station

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox London station Woodgrange Park is a railway station on Romford Road in Manor Park in the London Borough of Newham, east London. It is served by the Suffragette line of the London Overground. It is located Template:Convert down the line from Template:Stnlnk. The station is in London fare zone 3 and 4. It has only limited station buildings and facilities. Template:Overground RDT

History

Track was laid through the site in 1854 as part of the first section of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR) from Forest Gate Junction on the Eastern Counties Railway to Barking.<ref name=gobhistory>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The LTSR opened a more direct route from Barking to Fenchurch Street on 11 March 1858 so its trains could avoid the congested station at Stratford. After that the Forest Gate–Barking line was used by a small number of Liverpool Street to Barking services operated by the Eastern Counties Railway.Template:Efn A few goods trains also used this route.

In 1894 the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway opened a new railway to Tottenham, beginning at a junction just north of the station site.<ref name=gobhistory /> This railway was a joint venture between the Midland Railway and the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. The station was opened on 9 July 1894. It was served by trains from St Pancras or Moorgate as well as the few GER Liverpool Street–Barking services.<ref name=gobhistory />Template:Sfn A few services were routed to East Ham via the East Ham loop but the majority went to Barking (with a small number continuing to Southend).

Some goods sidings were opened on the Barking end of the station and these acted as exchange sidings between Midland Railway and LTSR trains as well as serving local businesses. In connection with this facility a short spur line (known as the East Ham Loop) to Template:Stl was opened in 1894 and this allowed LTSR goods trains from the London (Fenchurch Street) direction to access the exchange sidings.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Sfn

The exchange sidings lasted until 1909 when a new facility between Woodgrange Park and Barking was opened as Woodgrange Park and Barking Goods Yard (which acted as the exchange point between the Great Eastern and LTSR) were congested. The whole of this area was remodelled 1905–1909 as part of the quadrupling from Bromley to Barking and the electrification and extension of District line services. By 1916 the goods sidings at Woodgrange Park were reduced to coal traffic only and continued in this role until closure whilst the former exchange sidings were used for engineering traffic.Template:Sfn

Following the Railways Act 1921 Woodgrange Park became a London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) station. In 1948 the station was taken over by British Railways following nationalisation. The spur from East Ham closed in 1958 when the few remaining T&FG services were diverted to Barking and its closure was part of the scheme to separate the London, Tilbury and Southend line and District line into two distinct railways. The engineering sidings closed 27 June 1964 and the station coal yard closed 7 December 1964.Template:Sfn During 1964 the street level station buildings were demolished and replaced by a new structure and the platform buildings were demolished and replaced by shelters circa 1976. At this time the station was little used.Template:Sfn

The section from Forest Gate Junction through the station to Barking was electrified in 1962 as part of the LTSR modernisation and electrification scheme, and was used by a limited number of c2c services (which do not stop at Woodgrange Park) and by regular freight trains.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The station was closed between October 2016 and February 2017 whilst the rest of the Gospel Oak to Barking line was fully electrified. Electric London Overground trains (Class 710) began serving the station in 2019.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Design

{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= Template:Ambox }} }} It is a station with limited facilities; the ticket office was demolished in the late 1990s, and the space used for a small cycle rack. Staff operate from a container-sized portable office. RecentlyTemplate:When a number of self-service touch-screen ticket machines have been added, which accept coins, credit cards and notes. Oyster card validators have also been installed. The station was briefly equipped with APTIS equipment in 1988/89.Template:Citation needed

Location

The station is on the Suffragette line, Template:Convert west of Template:Stl. Its National Location Code (NLC) is 7467. It stands on Romford Road, a short walk from Template:Stnlnk station<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> with which Woodgrange Park has an official out-of-station interchange.<ref name=osi /> However, the National Rail Timetable suggests interchanging one stop to the west, from Template:Stnlnk to Template:Stnlnk.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

London Buses routes 25, 86, 425 and night routes N25 and N86 serve the station.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Services

The station is in London fare zone 3 and 4.<ref>Template:Cite map/Standard Tube Map</ref> All services at Woodgrange Park are operated by London Overground using Template:Brc EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is four trains per hour in each direction between Template:Stnlnk and Template:Stnlnk. During the late evenings, the service is reduced to three trains per hour in each direction.<ref>Template:NRtimes</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

References

Sources

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External links

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