Upton Park tube station

Upton Park
Main entrance on Green Street
Upton Park Location of Upton Park in Greater London
Location	Upton Park
Local authority	London Borough of Newham
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2011	11.01 million[1]
2012	10.30 million[1]
2013	10.48 million[1]
2014	11.41 million[1]
Key dates
1877	Opened by LT&SR
1902	District line started
1962	London–Southend withdrawn
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
London Transport portalCoordinates: 51°32′06″N 0°02′04″E / 51.535°N 0.0344°E

Upton Park station is a London Underground station on the District and Hammersmith and City lines, on Green Street in the Upton Park area of the London Borough of Newham, east London. It is in Zone 3.

The station was opened by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR) in 1877. District line service began in 1902, and the Hammersmith & City (at that time the Metropolitan line) followed in 1936. LTSR services were withdrawn in 1962.

The station has two working platforms, one for each direction. Two other platforms used to serve the LTSR but are now disused.

Upton Park serves as the local tube station for the Boleyn Ground, the home ground of West Ham United football club. It is also adjacent to Queens Road Market.

History

Upton Park was the first station on the LT&SR to be built by a property developer.^[2] Read was a developer who proposed the station and given approval designed and built a two platform station between the houses of Queen's Road and Harold Road. The station fronted Queen's Square on the corner of Green Street and Queen's Road opened in September 1877. The building was demolished in 1903/04 when the line was quadrupled and the present station constructed.

Upton Park tube station appears in the English slang term, "He/She is Upton Park - two stops short of Barking", indicating that the individual in question is slightly mad.^[3]

Connections

London Buses routes 58, 104, 238, 330 and 376 serve the station.

Facilities

There are two ticket office windows, two touch screen ticket machines, and three of the more traditional coin-only button machines.

At present there are no lifts at the station for disabled access, nor are there plans to install any.

Gallery

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  Side entrance

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  Eastbound platform looking east towards Upminster

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  Ticket office

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  Station platform roundel

References

1. "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLS). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. June 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
2. The London, Tilbury & Southend Railway by Peter Kay ISBN 1-899890-19-X
3. "Two Stops from Upton Park". Martin Stirrup. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26.

External links

• "Photographic Archive". London Transport Museum. Archived from the original on 2008-03-18.
  • Upton Park station, 1933