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Wood Street is a
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station on the Chingford branch of the
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, located in Upper Walthamstow in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, east London. It is down the line from
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and is situated between and . It has been operated by
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since 2015. It is also occasionally known as "Walthamstow Wood Street". The station is in
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. The station is close to
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History

The station was opened in 1873 by the Great Eastern Railway. On 13 February 1919 there was an accident at Wood Street when a passenger train ran into an empty stock train. Five people were injured – none seriously. The cause was a signal failure. In 1923 the Great Eastern Railway became part of the London and North Eastern Railway, which in turn was merged into British Railways Eastern Region following nationalisation in 1948. When construction of the
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's
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was given parliamentary approval in 1955, the plan was to build the line past
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to Wood Street, where the line would surface to terminate next to the British Railways station, on land previously used as a coal depot. Before construction work started, a decision was made in 1961 to omit the section beyond Walthamstow Central. The line was electrified in 1960, and electric services commenced on 12 November. At first Class 305 EMUs were used, but initial technical problems led to their replacement by Class 302 and Class 304 EMUs. The station had a goods depot, which closed on 6 May 1968. In April 1994
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took over responsibility for the operation of the infrastructure. Train services have been operated since then by
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,
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and, , by
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.


Engine shed

There was an engine shed located just north of Wood Street which was a sub-shed of Stratford TMD and was built in 1878. The engine shed was a two road affair with space for 6 tank locomotives – there was also a short siding for coal wagons. An additional siding was added c1934. By the 1950s the staff complement was 36 drivers, 36 Firemen and six Passed Cleaners although recruitment for what was a hard dirty job became more difficult during that decade. On 1 January 1922 the allocation consisted of three
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2-4-2Ts (later LNER Class F4), two GER Class C72 (later LNER Class J68) and eleven GER Class S56 (later LNER class J69) 0-6-0T engines. In later years the main allocation of the shed was tank engines for working suburban services to and from London Liverpool Street and from the 1920s the allocation was exclusively the LNE N7 0-6-2T locomotives. The shed was closed in 1960 when the line was electrified.


Services

Trains are operated by
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. The typical off-peak weekday service pattern is: *4 trains per hour (tph) to London Liverpool Street; *4 tph to Chingford. Journey times are 9 minutes to Chingford and 20 minutes to Liverpool Street.


Connections

London Buses routes
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and W16 serve the station.


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