Upton Park is a
London Underground station on the
District and
Hammersmith and City
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lines, on
Green Street in the
Upton Park area of the
London Borough of Newham
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, east
London. It is in
Zone 3.
The station was opened by the
London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR) in 1877. District line service began in 1902, and the Hammersmith & City (at that time the
Metropolitan line
The Metropolitan line, colloquially known as the Met, is a London Underground line between in the City of London and and in Buckinghamshire, with branches to in Hertfordshire and in Hillingdon. Printed in magenta on the tube map, the line i ...
) followed in 1936. LTSR services were withdrawn in 1962. The station has two working platforms, one for each direction. Two other platforms used to serve the LTSR but are now disused.
Nowadays, the station serves
Queens Road Market and
Green Street.
History
Upton Park was the first station on the LT&SR to be built by a property developer. Read was a developer who proposed the station and given approval designed and built a two platform station between the houses of Queen's Road and Harold Road. The station fronted Queen's Square on the corner of Green Street and Queen's Road opened in September 1877. The building was demolished in 1903/04 when the line was quadrupled and the present station constructed.
Upton Park tube station appears in the English slang term, "He/She is Upton Park - two stops short of Barking", indicating that the individual in question is slightly mad.
Services
The service frequency is 15 services per hour on the District line and 6 services per hour on the Hammersmith & City line.
Connections
London Buses
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routes
58,
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,
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and
376 serve the station.
Facilities
There are two ticket office windows, two touch screen ticket machines, and three of the more traditional coin-only button machines.
At present there are no lifts at the station for disabled access, nor are there plans to install any.
Trivia
* The station previously served as the local station for the
Boleyn Ground, the home ground of
West Ham United football
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club. However, this changed when in Summer 2016, West Ham United moved to the
Olympic Stadium.
Gallery
Image:Upton Park tube station 3.jpg, Side entrance
Image:Upton Park tube station 4.jpg, Eastbound platform looking east towards Upminster
Image:Upton Park tube station 8.jpg, Ticket office
Image:Upton Park tube station 7.jpg, Station platform roundel
References
External links
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District line stations
Hammersmith & City line stations
London Underground stations located above ground
Tube stations in the London Borough of Newham
Former London, Tilbury and Southend Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1877