Barking station

Barking is a railway station in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. The aboveground plant, which also includes a London Underground station, is one of the most important transport hubs in east London. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 4 at the station parade. In the year 2011 there were 13.96 million subway passengers the station, added 4.678 million passengers by rail.

Plant

At the Station with a total of nine tracks take four different rail lines together. The most important is the running from west to east London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, operate on the trains of the railway company c2c between the London railway terminus Fenchurch Street and Southend -on-Sea and the District Line of the London Underground on the way to Upminster. Barking is the eastern terminus of the Hammersmith & City Line, but turn their trains in the early morning, late evening and on Sundays already in Whitechapel.

Southeast of the station branches off a branch line of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, which runs through Tilbury to Southend -on-Sea. In the northwest branches off another side line; the railway Gospel Oak - Barking is not electrified, unlike the others, is traveled from London Overground trains and performs on Blackhorse Road to Gospel Oak on the southern edge of Hampstead Heath. In the fourth line is the tunnel of the high-speed rail High Speed ​​One, which runs under the station area and was opened in November 2007; However, a connection to the rest of the routes exists.

The main hall is since 1995 listed building (Grade II).

History

The railway company London, Tilbury and Southend Railway ( LT & SR ) opened the station on 13 June 1854, when she took the route to Tilbury in operation. 1888 was the direct running track added towards Southend -on-Sea. The LT & SR and the Midland Railway built together the route to Gospel Oak and took this in 1894.

As of June 2, 1902 the District Line operated the Barking station and perverse continue on the tracks of the LT & SR way to Upminster. The underground operation ended provisionally on September 30, 1905, the entire section east of East Ham. After the electrification of a short portion of the U -Bahn trains ran from April 1, 1908 back up to Barking. On September 12, 1932, the operation was extended again until after Upminster. The Metropolitan Line operated the station for the first time on March 30, 1936 ( the eastern branch line in 1988 transferred to the Hammersmith & City Line ).