Bow Road tube station

Bow Road
Bow Road Location of Bow Road in Greater London
Location	Bow
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
OSI	Bow Church [1]
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011	5.08 million[2]
2012	5.18 million[2]
2013	5.60 million[2]
2014	5.77 million[2]
Railway companies
Original company	Whitechapel and Bow Railway
Key dates
1902	Opened
1950	Ownership transferred to London Transport
Listed status
Listing grade	II
Entry number	1357787[3]
Added to list	27 September 1973
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
London Transport portalCoordinates: 51°31′38″N 0°01′29″W / 51.52722°N 0.02472°W

Bow Road is a London Underground station on the District and Hammersmith & City lines. It is on Bow Road in Bow, east London, about 300 metres (980 feet) from Bow Church DLR station and is in fare zone 2. Out of station interchange (OSI) is allowed between the stations.

History

The station was opened in 1902 by the Whitechapel and Bow Railway (which was later incorporated into the District line), with the Hammersmith & City line (then the Metropolitan line) following in 1936.

The Great Eastern Railway Bow Road railway station, which closed in 1949, stood on the opposite of Bow Road.

Ownership of the station passed to London Underground in 1950.^[4]

Design

The station booking hall is a Grade II listed building.

Bow Road marks the point where westbound trains from Upminster and Barking enter a tunnel; the gradient of the tunnel approach, which is to the east of the station, is 1 in 28, the steepest on the tube network.^[5]

View eastward at platform level in 1961

Connections

London Buses routes 25, 205 and 425, and night route N205 serve the station.

References

1. "Out of Station Interchanges" (Microsoft Excel). Transport for London. May 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-03-12.
2. "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLS). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
3. "The National Heritage List for England". English Heritage. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
4. "Transport Act, 1947" (PDF). The London Gazette. 27 January 1950. p. 480. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
5. "London Underground Statistics". trainweb.org. Retrieved 25 September 2012.

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