Bow Road tube station

This article is about a London Underground station. For the former Great Eastern station, see Bow Road railway station.

Bow Road

Station entrance on 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
Interchange	Bow Church
London Underground annual entry and exit
2008	5.320 million
2009	5.084 million
2010	5.300 million
1902	Opened
Lists of stations	DLR · Underground · National Rail · Tramlink

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

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 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.

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

View eastward at platform level in 1961

Bus links

London Bus routes 25, 205, and 425.

External links

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Mile End towards Hammersmith		Hammersmith & City line		Bromley-by-Bow towards Barking
Mile End towards Wimbledon, Richmond or Ealing Broadway		District line		Bromley-by-Bow towards Upminster