Rectory Road is a
London Overground
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station on the
Lea Valley lines
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in the
West Hackney
West Hackney is a district in the London Borough of Hackney, situated on the eastern side of Ermine Street, the major Roman Road better known as the A10.
The area was part of the Ancient Parish and subsequent Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, bu ...
area of the
London Borough of Hackney
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, east London.
It is down the line from
London Liverpool Street
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and is between and stations. Its three-letter station code is REC and it is in
Travelcard zone 2
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Ba ...
.
Trains run south to Liverpool Street and north to either
Cheshunt
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or
Enfield Town
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.
The ticket office, street buildings, staircases and platform shelters were all built in the mid-1980s in works funded by the
Greater London Council
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(along with other stations in the "Tube-less" borough of Hackney). These elaborate structures were very different from the low-maintenance changes further up the line at the same time, and feature the
British Rail
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logo worked into the brickwork at street-level.
In 2015 the station and all services that call there were transferred from
Abellio Greater Anglia
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operation to
London Overground
London Overground (also known simply as the Overground) is a Urban rail in the United Kingdom, suburban rail network serving London and its environs. Established in 2007 to take over Silverlink Metro routes, (via archive.org). it now serves a ...
. The station was also added to the
Tube map
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.
TfL count on LOROL for support
'' Rail Professional'' 28 May 2014
Services
Trains are operated by London Overground
London Overground (also known simply as the Overground) is a Urban rail in the United Kingdom, suburban rail network serving London and its environs. Established in 2007 to take over Silverlink Metro routes, (via archive.org). it now serves a ...
.
The typical off-peak weekday service pattern from Rectory Road is:
*4 trains per hour (tph) to ;
*2 tph to ;
*2 tph to .
Connections
London Buses
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routes 67, 76, 149, 243
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and 276
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Year 276 ( CCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Tacitus and Aemilianus (or, less frequently, year 1029 ...
serve the station.
References
External links
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{{London Overground navbox, SevenSisters=y
Railway stations in the London Borough of Hackney
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1872
Railway stations served by London Overground