Upton Park tube station

London Underground station

Upton Park

Location of Upton Park in Greater London

LocationUpton ParkLocal authorityLondon Borough of NewhamManaged byLondon UndergroundNumber of platforms2Fare zone3London Underground annual entry and exit2018

9.68 million^[1]2019

9.71 million^[2]2020

6.68 million^[3]2021

4.78 million^[4]2022

7.69 million^[5]Key dates1 September 1877Opened by LT&SR1902District line started15 June 1962London–Southend withdrawnOther informationExternal links

TfL station info page

Coordinates51°32′06″N 0°02′04″E / 51.535°N 0.0344°E / 51.535; 0.0344

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Upton Park 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 LTSR services were withdrawn in 1962.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.

Nowadays, the station serves Queens Road Market and Green Street.

History

Upton Park was the first station on the LT&SR to be built by a property developer.^[6] 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 was 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.^[7]

Services

The service frequency is 15 services per hour on the District line and 6 services per hour on the Hammersmith & City line.

Preceding station		Following station
Plaistow towards Hammersmith	Hammersmith & City line	East Ham towards Barking
Plaistow towards Wimbledon, Richmond or Ealing Broadway	District line	East Ham towards Upminster
Former services
Plaistow towards Hammersmith	Metropolitan line Hammersmith branch (1936–1990)	East Ham towards Barking
Historical railways
Plaistow	British Rail Eastern Region London, Tilbury and Southend line	East Ham

Connections

London Buses routes 58, 104, 330 and 376 serve the station.^[8]

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.

Trivia

The station previously served as the local station for the Boleyn Ground, the home ground of West Ham United football club. However, this changed when in Summer 2016, West Ham United moved to the Olympic Stadium.

Gallery

Side entrance
Eastbound platform looking east towards Upminster
Ticket office
Station platform roundel

References

^ "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
^ "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.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
^ The London, Tilbury & Southend Railway by Peter Kay ISBN 1-899890-19-X
^ "Two Stops from Upton Park". Martin Stirrup. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012.
^ "Buses from Upton Park" (PDF). TfL. 21 May 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Upton Park tube station.

London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
- Upton Park station, 1933

District line

Stations

Richmond branch	Gunnersbury Kew Gardens Richmond
Ealing branch	Chiswick Park Acton Town Ealing Common Ealing Broadway
Wimbledon branch	West Brompton Fulham Broadway Parsons Green Putney Bridge East Putney Southfields Wimbledon Park Wimbledon
Edgware Road branch	High Street Kensington Notting Hill Gate Bayswater Paddington Edgware Road
Olympia branch	Kensington (Olympia)

Rolling stock

S7 Stock

History

Former stations	Alperton Benfleet Boston Manor Castle Hill & Ealing Dene Chalkwell Deptford Road East Horndon Eastcote Hanwell Hayes Hillingdon Hounslow Central Hounslow East Hounslow Town Hounslow West Ickenham Laindon Langley Leigh-on-Sea Mark Lane New Cross Gate North Ealing Northfields Northfields & Little Ealing Osterley Osterley & Spring Grove Park Royal Park Royal & Twyford Abbey Pitsea Rayners Lane Rotherhithe Ruislip Ruislip Manor Shadwell Shoeburyness Slough South Acton South Ealing South Harrow Southall Southend Central Southend East St Mary's (Whitechapel Road) Sudbury Town Sudbury Hill Thorpe Bay Uxbridge Wapping Westcliff West Drayton Windsor
Wimbledon & Sutton Railway	Cannon Hill Cheam Collingwood Road Elm Farm Elm Grove Merton Park Morden Sutton Sutton Common
Former stock	C69 & C77 D78 A Stock B Stock C Stock D Stock E Stock F Stock G Stock H Stock K Stock L Stock O/P/CO/CP Stock Q Stock R Stock

Depots

Other sub-surface lines	Circle line Hammersmith & City line Metropolitan line

See also

London Underground
Transport for London
London transport portal

Metropolitan line

Stations

Central London section	Aldgate Liverpool Street Moorgate Barbican Farringdon King's Cross St Pancras Euston Square Great Portland Street
Core section	Baker Street Finchley Road Wembley Park Preston Road Northwick Park Harrow-on-the-Hill
Uxbridge branch	West Harrow Rayners Lane Eastcote Ruislip Manor Ruislip Ickenham Hillingdon Uxbridge
Outer section & branches	North Harrow Pinner Northwood Hills Northwood Moor Park Watford branch Croxley Watford Rickmansworth Chorleywood Chalfont & Latimer Chesham branch Chesham Amersham branch Amersham

Rolling stock

Present rolling stock	S8 Stock

History

Former lines	Brill Tramway 1863–1933 1933–1988 Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway
Closed stations	Brill Granborough Road Hammersmith (Grove Road) Lord's Marlborough Road Quainton Road St Mary's (Whitechapel Road) Shoreditch Swiss Cottage Tower of London Uxbridge Road Verney Junction Waddesdon Waddesdon Road Westcott Winslow Road Wood Lane Wood Siding Wotton
Former stations	Aldgate East Aylesbury Barking Bow Road Bromley-by-Bow Dollis Hill Drayton Park East Ham Edgware Road Essex Road Finsbury Park Goldhawk Road Great Missenden Gunnersbury Hammersmith Highbury & Islington Kensington (Olympia) Kew Gardens Kilburn Kingsbury Ladbroke Grove Latimer Road New Cross New Cross Gate Mile End Neasden Old Street Paddington Plaistow Queensbury Ravenscourt Park Richmond Rotherhithe Royal Oak Shadwell Shepherd's Bush Stanmore Stepney Green Stoke Mandeville Surrey Quays Turnham Green Upton Park Wapping Wendover West Ham West Hampstead Whitechapel Willesden Green
Abandoned plans	Lothbury Clerkenwell Finchley Road Hampstead Watford Central
Transferred lines	Aylesbury line Bakerloo line East London line Hammersmith & City line Jubilee line Great Northern & City Railway
Former rolling stock	Metropolitan Railway electric multiple units GN&C Stock S Stock T Stock Circle Stock O/P/CP/CO/P1 Stock F Stock Main Line Stock A60 and A62 Stock
Former locomotives	A Class B Class C Class D Class E Class F Class G Class H Class K Class Metropolitan Railway electric locomotives Metropolitan departmental ex GWR Wotton Tramway
Metro-Land	Metro-land Metro-Land (1973 film)