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

Bow Road London Underground
LocationBow
Local authorityTower Hamlets
Managed byLondon Underground
Number of platforms2
Fare zone2
OSIBow Church Docklands Light Railway[1]
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019Steady 5.23 million[2]
2020Decrease 2.66 million[3]
2021Decrease 2.26 million[4]
2022Increase 3.83 million[5]
2023Increase 4.16 million[6]
Railway companies
Original companyWhitechapel and Bow Railway
Key dates
1902Opened
1950Ownership transferred to London Transport
Listed status
Listing gradeII
Entry number1357787[7]
Added to list27 September 1973
Other information
External links
London transport portal

Bow Road is a London Underground station on Bow Road in Bow in Greater London, England. The station is situated in the East End of London and is on the District and Hammersmith & City lines which has an out of station interchange (OSI) with Bow Church on the Docklands Light Railway which is about a 300 m (980 ft) walk away.

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.[8]

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.[9]

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. 2 January 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  2. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  7. ^ "The National Heritage List for England". English Heritage. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
  8. ^ "Transport Act, 1947" (PDF). The London Gazette. 27 January 1950. p. 480. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
  9. ^ "London Underground Statistics". trainweb.org. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
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