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Woodgrange Park London Overground
The station entrance in 2008
Woodgrange Park is located in Greater London
Woodgrange Park
Woodgrange Park
Location of Woodgrange Park in Greater London
LocationManor Park
Local authorityLondon Borough of Newham
Grid referenceTQ418853
Managed byLondon Overground
OwnerNetwork Rail
Station code(s)WGR
DfT categoryE
Number of platforms2
Fare zone3 and 4
OSIManor Park Elizabeth line[1]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20Decrease 0.629 million[2]
2020–21Decrease 0.454 million[2]
2021–22Increase 0.732 million[2]
2022–23Increase 0.776 million[2]
2023–24Increase 0.890 million[2]
Railway companies
Original companyLondon, Tilbury and Southend Railway
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
9 July 1894Opened
Other information
External links
Coordinates51°32′55″N 0°02′43″E / 51.5487°N 0.0454°E / 51.5487; 0.0454
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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 12 miles 1 chain (19.3 km) down the line from Gospel Oak. The station is in London fare zone 3 and 4. It has only limited station buildings and facilities.

History

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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.[3] 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.[a] 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.[3] 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.[3][4] 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 East Ham was opened in 1894 and this allowed LTSR goods trains from the London (Fenchurch Street) direction to access the exchange sidings.[5][4]

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.[6]

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.[7] 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.[7]

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.[8]

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.[9][10]

Design

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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. Recently[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.[citation needed]

Location

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The station is on the Suffragette line, 1.75 miles (2.82 km) west of Barking. Its National Location Code (NLC) is 7467. It stands on Romford Road, a short walk from Manor Park station[11] with which Woodgrange Park has an official out-of-station interchange.[1] However, the National Rail Timetable suggests interchanging one stop to the west, from Wanstead Park to Forest Gate.[12]

London Buses routes 25, 86, 425 and night routes N25 and N86 serve the station.[13]

Services

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The station is in London fare zone 3 and 4.[14] All services at Woodgrange Park are operated by London Overground using Class 710 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is four trains per hour in each direction between Gospel Oak and Barking Riverside. During the late evenings, the service is reduced to three trains per hour in each direction.[15][16]

Notes

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  1. ^ In 1862 the Eastern Counties Railway became the Great Eastern Railway (GER).

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b "Out-of-Station Interchanges" (Microsoft Excel). Transport for London. 2 January 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Archived from the original on 19 June 2025. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  3. ^ a b c "A Short History of the Line". Barking – Gospel Oak Rail User Group.
  4. ^ a b Kay 2019, p. 555.
  5. ^ Borley, H.V. Chronology of London Railways. p. 20.
  6. ^ Kay 2019, pp. 550–566.
  7. ^ a b Kay 2019, p. 559.
  8. ^ "Woodgrange Park Railway Station". Mapio.net. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  9. ^ Gelder, Sam. "New Overground trains for Gospel Oak to Barking line delayed... by three months". Islington Gazette. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  10. ^ "Gospel Oak to Barking electrification works to be complete in time for arrival of new double-length electric trains". Network Rail Media Centre.
  11. ^ "Woodgrange Park Railway Station". Google Maps.
  12. ^ National Rail. "Timetable" (PDF). p. 46. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2009.
  13. ^ "Buses from Manor Park" (PDF). TfL. 21 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  14. ^ Standard Tube Map (PDF) (Map). Not to scale. Transport for London. February 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 March 2025. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  15. ^ Table 62 National Rail timetable, December 2023
  16. ^ "London Overground Timetable: Gospel Oak to Barking" (PDF). Transport for London. Retrieved 1 January 2024.

Sources

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  • Kay, Peter (2019). The London, Tilbury & Southend Railway: A History of the Company and Line Volume 7. Wivenhoe: P. Kay. ISBN 978-1-899890-51-4.
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