History
Chadwell Heath Station was opened on 11 January 1864 and is built on the site of Wangey House, one of Dagenham, Dagenham's oldest buildings dating back to 1250. Wangey House was partly demolished when the Eastern Counties Railway built the line in the 1830s; the last surviving portion was demolished when the Great Eastern Railway widened the line in 1901. Chadwell Heath was the focus for the Becontree housing estate railway, housing estate temporary railway built for the construction of the Becontree#Becontree estate, Becontree estate in the period 1926–33. In June 2017, new trains began entering service in preparation for the opening of the Crossrail. As of March 2023, the four platforms at Chadwell Heath station have been extended from their previous length of to accommodate the Crossrail trains which are over long as they have been extended to nine carriages. New lifts, signage, help points, customer information screens and CCTV has been installed. Additionally, a new passing loop for freight traffic was constructed to the west of the station, to replace the disused loop further up the line at .Services
The typical Monday-Friday peak is 11 trains per hour and off peak is 7. Saturday off-peak service is 7 trains per hour in each direction between Liverpool Street station, Liverpool Street and Shenfield railway station, Shenfield, reduced on Sundays to 6 per hour in each direction:Connections
London Buses routes London Buses route 62, 62 and London Buses route 368, 368 serve the station by the nearby Chadwell Heath Station bus stop.References
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