Leytonstone High Road Station - Leytonstone High Road, London, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Master Mariner
N 51° 33.802 E 000° 00.523
31U E 292676 N 5716717
Leytonstone High Road station serves London Overground services. The tracks and station are elevated above street level with access being on the northwest side of Leytonstone High Road. The platforms are connected by using an arch below the tracks.
Waymark Code: WMPRDC
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/13/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member fi67
Views: 4

Wikipedia has an article about the station that tells us:

Leytonstone High Road station is a railway station in Leytonstone, London in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, on the Gospel Oak to Barking Line, between Leyton Midland Road and Wanstead Park. It has two platforms that are elevated approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) above ground level, each of which contains a metal shelter, covered but not completely enclosed. Ticket machines and Oyster validators (for touching in and out) are installed under the arch at the foot of the stairs.

Although the railway crosses over the London Underground's Central line almost immediately north west of the station, there is no direct interchange - Leytonstone station is about a 10-minute walk away. Despite the distance, travellers using Oyster cards can make the interchange as part of a single journey.

The service was improved in January 2011 to four trains per hour in each direction on weekdays and Saturdays, two an hour on Sundays. The last trains in each direction run at about 11pm.

The station opened on 9 July 1894 as part of the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway. Originally, wagons were lowered from the arches to the ground-level goods yard by means of a hydraulic hoist. The original wooden platform buildings were destroyed by fire in the 1950s.

London Buses routes 257 and W14 and night route N8 serve the station.

Is the station/depot currently used for railroad purposes?: Yes

Is the station/depot open to the public?: Yes

What rail lines does/did the station/depot serve?: London Overground

Station/Depot Web Site: [Web Link]

If the station/depot is not being used for railroad purposes, what is it currently used for?: Not listed

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