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Maryland
railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line serving the
locality of Maryland in the London Borough of Newham, east
London. It is 4 miles 39 chains (7.2 km) down-line from London
Liverpool Street and is situated between Stratford and Forest
Gate. Its three-letter station code is MYL and it is in fare zone
3.
The station
was opened in 1873 as Maryland Point by the Great Eastern
Railway. It was renamed Maryland in 1940. The station is
currently managed by TfL Rail. Train services call at Maryland as
part of the Shenfield-Liverpool Street stopping "metro"
service. In the future the TfL Rail service will be re-branded as
the Elizabeth line as part of the Crossrail project. Eventually,
the Elizabeth line service will be extended beyond Liverpool
Street to Paddington and onwards to Reading and Heathrow Airport.
The station
was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on its main line out of
Bishopsgate on 6 January 1873 with the name Maryland Point. It
was fully rebuilt in 1891 when the line capacity was expanded.
Its name was shortened to Maryland on 28 October 1940. New
station buildings, designed by Thomas Bennett, were opened in
1949.
Of the four
platforms, only the two serving the stopping "metro"
lines are in regular operation, the others being used only when
necessary during engineering works or temporary train path
diversions.
The station
is one of the primary rail access points for the residential
areas in the north of Stratford and the south of Leytonstone in
east London. The area surrounding the station has seen much
redevelopment in the 21st century, with ongoing improvements
underway related to the nearby Olympic Park. Notably, the
"twisted clock" timepiece/sculpture formerly installed
outside Stratford station was relocated to Maryland.
Maryland was
closed between 27 July and 12 August 2012, during the 2012
Olympic Games, as it would have been unable to cope with the
large numbers of spectators who would have used it to access the
venues nearby at the Olympic Park.
The typical
off-peak service is of six trains per hour to London Liverpool
Street, and six to Shenfield. On Sundays the service is reduced
to four trains per hour in each direction. The services are
currently operated by TfL Rail.
Maryland was
added to the planned Crossrail route in 2006 after campaigning by
Newham Council, the London Transport Users Committee and others.
At 169 metres (185 yd), the platforms are too short for
Crossrail's new trains which will be over 200 metres (220 yd) in
length, and extending the platforms is impossible due to
geographical constraints. Crossrail has therefore committed to
providing a full service, making use of selective door operation
such that doors on some end carriages will not open at Maryland.
An agreement was also reached about improving access to the
station. Crossrail's precursor TfL Rail took control of the
present "metro" service at the end of May 2015 from
Abellio Greater Anglia and the new Class 345 trains were
introduced in June 2017.
London Buses
routes 69, 257 and 308 and night route N8 serve the station.
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