Bow Road tube station

Bow Road is a London Underground station in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2 on the same road. In 2011, 5.08 million passengers used the station. About two hundred meters to the east is the station Bow Church on the Docklands Light Railway.

At the western end of the station Bow Road the output of the downtown tunnel is located. The slope of the tunnel entrance east of the station is 3.57 %; This is the steepest section of the entire network of the London Underground. The station building is a listed building. Bow Road is all day served by trains on the District Line and the Hammersmith & City Line. However, the latter does not run in the early morning, late at night and on Sundays.

The station was opened on 11 June 1902 the Whitechapel and Bow Railway, a joint venture between the Metropolitan District Railway (now the District Line ) and the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. The Metropolitan Line operated Bow Road the first time on March 30, 1936 (the branch line towards Barking in 1988 transferred to the Hammersmith & City Line ).

The station is since 1973 listed building (Grade II).

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