Coborn Road railway station

Coborn Road
Coborn Road Location of Coborn Road in Greater London
Location	Bow
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Number of platforms	2
Railway companies
Original company	Great Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 February 1865	Opened as Old Ford
1 March 1879	Renamed Coborn Road
2 December 1883	Resited and renamed Coborn Road for Old Ford
22 May 1916	Closed
5 May 1919	Reopened
8 December 1946	Closed
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
London Transport portal UK Railways portalCoordinates: 51°31′44″N 0°01′56″W / 51.5290°N 0.0321°W

Coborn Road was a railway station in Bow, east London, 2 miles 28 chains (3.8 km) down the main line from Liverpool Street.^[1] It was opened on 1 February 1865 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) with the name Old Ford. (There was another station in the area also named Old Ford, but that was on the North London Railway.)

The GER renamed the station as Coborn Road on 1 March 1879. It was resited slightly to the west on 2 December 1883 at which time its name was changed again, to Coborn Road for Old Ford; it kept this name for the remainder of its life. As part of a widespread policy during the First World War of closing inner-city stops on the London main lines, the station was temporarily closed on 22 May 1916 and reopened on 5 May 1919.

It was permanently closed on 8 December 1946.^[2] Much of its former catchment area has been taken over by the expanded Mile End tube station and Bow Church DLR station.^[3]

See also

• List of closed railway stations in London
• Great Eastern Railway

References

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Globe Road		Great Eastern Railway Great Eastern Main Line		Stratford

1. http://www.s-r-s.org.uk/railref/ref-ge.html
2. Forgotten Stations of Greater London by J.Connor and B.Halford ISBN 0-947699-17-1
3. London's Abandoned Tube Stations