Bromley-by-Bow tube station

Bromley -by -Bow is a London Underground station in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 2 and Zone 3 In the year 2011 there were 2.75 million passengers use the station.

It has two side platforms for trains on the District Line and the Hammersmith & City Line. However, the latter do not operate in the early morning, late evening and on Sundays. Two further platforms are connected to the parallel railway line that leads to the south-east of Essex, but are no longer served. In the BBC soap opera EastEnders Bromley -by -Bow is replaced on the network map by the fictional Walford East station.

On March 31, 1858, the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway ( LT & SR ) opened at this point the Bow station. The operation of the District Line began on June 2, 1902. On this day, the Whitechapel and Bow Railway was opened, a joint venture of the Metropolitan District Railway ( as the District Line was then known) and the LT & SR. The Metropolitan Line operated the station for the first time on March 30, 1936 ( the branch line towards Barking in 1988 transferred to the Hammersmith & City Line ). 1962 held the last train of the railway. On May 18, 1967 it was renamed in Bromley -by -Bow, to avoid confusion with Bromley in the London Borough of Bromley.