Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 7, 2010

Upminster Bridge tube station is a London Underground station on Upminster Road in the Upminster Bridge neighbourhood of the London Borough of Havering in northeast London, England. The station is on the District line and is the penultimate station on the eastern extremity of that line. The station was opened on 17 December 1934 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) on the local electrified tracks between Upminster and Barking that were constructed in 1932. The station was operated by LMS but was only served by District line trains. After nationalisation of the railways in 1948 management of the station passed to British Railways and in 1969 ownership transferred to the London Underground. The main station building is of a distinctive polygonal design. Since 2006, the station has been one of the first on the network to operate without a staffed ticket office. It has low usage for a suburban station with 0.93 million entries and exits during 2008.