Chadwell Heath station is on the

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Chadwell Heath Chadwell Heath is an area in east London, England. It is situated on the boundary of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and the London Borough of Redbridge, around west of Romford and east of Ilford, and north-east of Charing Cross. ...

, which straddles the London Borough of Redbridge and the

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in East London. It is down the line from

London Liverpool Street Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate Without. It is the t ...

and is situated between and . Its three-letter station code is CTH and it is in

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. The station was opened in 1864 by the

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. It is currently managed by Transport for London and is between and

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History

Chadwell Heath Station was opened on 11 January 1864 and is built on the site of Wangey House, one of Dagenham's oldest buildings dating back to 1250. Wangey House was partly demolished when the

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 housing estate temporary railway built for the construction of the

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in the period 1926–33. In June 2017, new trains began entering service in preparation for the opening of the

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. 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

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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 and Shenfield, reduced on Sundays to 6 per hour in each direction:

Connections

London Buses routes 62 and 368 serve the station by the nearby Chadwell Heath Station bus stop.

References

External links

Excel file displaying National Rail station usage information for 2005/06
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1864 establishments in England