Seven Kings railway station

Seven Kings railway station is a railway station at Seven Kings in the London Borough of Redbridge in East London. It was opened on 1 March 1899 by the Great Eastern Railway on their Main Line which opened sixty years earlier.

Before the London underground railway Central Line passed from Stratford via Gants Hill to Newbury Park in 1947, Seven Kings was one of two junctions for the Fairlop Loop to Woodford via Hainault. Seven Kings West Junction (the curve here only ever seeing freight, excursion and empty stock traffic) was closed in 1956, though the other connection, from Ilford, was severed as early as 1947 due to the expansion of Ilford Carriage Sheds, which are easily visible from the western end of Seven Kings station. The carriage sheds comprise a large depot which includes two workshops.

It is proposed that the Crossrail line will stop here. The station is in Travelcard Zone 4.A £1M refurbishement has now been planned consisting of a new toilet, waiting room and deep clean

ervice

Typical off-peak service from the station is:

*6 tph (trains per hour) to Shenfield
*6 tph to Liverpool Street

External links

[http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/xls/station_usage_2005-06.xls Excel file displaying National Rail station usage information for 2005/06] Geolinks-UK-buildingscale|51.5635|0.0969

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