Harold Wood railway station is on the

Great Eastern Main Line The Great Eastern Main Line (GEML, sometimes referred to as the East Anglia Main Line) is a major railway line on the British railway system which connects Liverpool Street station in central London with destinations in east London and t ...

in east London, serving the

Harold Wood Harold Wood is a suburban neighbourhood of Romford in the London Borough of Havering. It is situated east-northeast of Charing Cross and near to the Greater London boundary with Essex. History Toponymy The name Harold Wood was recorded in ...

area of

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in the

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. It is down the line from

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and is situated between

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and Brentwood. Its three-letter station code is HRO and it is in

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. The station is currently managed by Transport for London and is on the

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between and

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History

Harold Wood station was opened on 1 December 1868 by the

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...

on its main line from in London to the east of England and consisted of two staggered platforms of wooden construction, the down platform accessed from Station Road and the up platform from Oak Road. Goods facilities consisted of two sidings on the north side of the line opposite the up platform, and there was also a long siding serving a brickworks. A

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was provided at the up end of the down platform controlling the signals, access to the goods facilities, and a trailing crossover. Two additional tracks were built in 1934 under

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

ownership (the original tracks are normally used today by express services which do not call at Harold Wood). At this time the current station building was constructed on the overbridge at Gubbins Lane, and new platforms of precast concrete construction located slightly further east nearer to the new station building. The signal box was removed as part of these works, with control of the new colour light signals shared between

and Brentwood.

Services

The typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service from the station is eight trains per hour to Shenfield and eight to Paddington. On Sundays this reduces to six in each direction.

Connections

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routes

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, 294,

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and

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serve the station.

References

External links

Excel file displaying National Rail station usage information for 2005/06
{{Crossrail navbox Railway stations in the London Borough of Havering Former Great Eastern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1868 Railway stations served by the Elizabeth line