Bow Road railway station

Bow Road is a closed railway station in Bow, East London, that was opened in 1876 on the Bow Curve branch line by the Great Eastern Railway (GER).

This article is about the closed main line railway station. For the open London Underground station of the same name, see Bow Road tube station.

Bow Road
Station building remains in 1961
LocationBow
OwnerGreat Eastern Railway
Number of platforms2
Key dates
1 October 1876Opened
4 April 1892Re-sited
21 April 1941Closed
9 December 1946Re-opened
7 November 1949Closed
Other information
 London transport portal

The station building was situated slightly west of a former North London Railway (NLR) station called Bow and near the current Bow Road Underground station and Bow Church DLR station. Bow Road station was re-sited in 1892 to a site 3 miles 7 chains (5 km) down-line from Fenchurch Street. It was closed in 1949.

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