Woodgrange Park Station is a London Overground station in Travelcard Zone 4 opened 9 July 1894. It is situated opposite Manor Park Station.
The station is served by four trains per hour in each direction on weekdays. The line also passes through a rail freight yard. c2c’s infrequent services to Liverpool Street pass through without stopping.
History
The station opened in 1894 on a new line from Tottenham and Forest Gate to Barking. It is situated on Romford Road in the Manor Park neighbourhood of the London Borough of Newham. It is the penultimate station on the eastern end of that line and falls within Travelcard Zones 3 and 4. The tracks are in a cutting, below street level and are accessed via a road/footbridge that crosses them. The station has very limited facilities and is one of the least-used stations in Greater London.
The line was originally part of the High Barnet branch of the London, North Western & Scottish Railway (LNWR). Following the 1921 Railways Act the branch became part of the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER). When the LNER was absorbed into the London Underground network in the late 1930s, trains serving Woodgrange Park Station were classified as Metropolitan line services.
A c2c infrequent service to Liverpool Street passes through the station without stopping. A number of bus routes (25, 86 and 425), including night services, also serve the area around the station.
Controversy arose in 2000 when developers Bellway Urban Renewal exhumed more than 12,000 bodies from a section of Woodgrange Park Cemetery to make way for 120 apartments. Most of those bodies were Blitz victims. The bodies were reinterred elsewhere in the cemetery but many local residents were unhappy about the way that the exhumation had been conducted.
Service
The station is operated by London Overground and is on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line. Currently it has two platforms and is in Travelcard Zones 3 and 4. During the week, there are four trains each hour in each direction, although this reduces to one train per hour on Sundays and during the evenings. The station is also served by a small number of infrequent c2c services to Liverpool Street which pass through without stopping.
The journey from Woodgrange Park London Overground Station to Barking takes about 5 minutes on average. The Moovit app offers all the latest schedules, timetables and prices for buses, trains and rides to Woodgrange Park London Overground Station and lets you compare them to find the best option for your trip.
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Platforms
Track was laid through this site in 1854 as part of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway line from Forest Gate Junction on to Barking. However it wasn’t until 9 July 1894 that a station was opened here by the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway on their new line to Tottenham beginning at a junction just north of this site. This was a joint venture with the Midland Railway and services were operated by both companies. Initially the station had a short spur line to East Ham which was served sporadically (but mostly by Midland Railway trains) although services primarily continued to Barking.
There are two platforms at Woodgrange Park Station, with daily services running to and from Gospel Oak and Barking. The fastest journey time from this station to Barking is 31 minutes, but you will need to change trains to reach your destination as the service is not continuous.
In terms of facilities, there is no ticket office at this station, with staff operating from a small portable office that can be found on the platform itself. There are also a number of shelters and outdoor seating available for passengers to use.
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Getting There
Woodgrange Park is a busy commuter station but it is still easy to get to, particularly with the help of the excellent bus routes that run past the station. The local buses include 147, 25 and 86. Alternatively, the nearby Woodgrange Park tube station and Manor Park train stations are both within a 20-minute walk away.
If you’re travelling on the train from Woodgrange Park to London Victoria, you can also save money by splitting your ticket. This is where you buy one ticket for the whole journey from A to B and another, separate ticket for the section between C and D. This method is perfectly legal and could halve your rail ticket cost.
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