Bow Road
Bow Road station, east London, LUL District and Hammersmith & City Lines, looking east on 5th January 2013. This shows the start of the steep incline which takes trains out of the cut-and-cover tunnel and up to where they begin to run alongside the ex-LTSR tracks with Hammersmith & City Line trains terminating at Barking while District Line trains go all the way through to Upminster. From 1905 until 1939, District trains ran all the way from Ealing Broadway to Southend On Sea, over the LTSR, changing from District electric locomotives to LTSR (LMSR from 1923) steam locomotives at Barking. The service was withdrawn as a World War Two economy and never reinstated after 1945. The western end of the platforms are inside the tunnel, this section of the line having opened as the Whitechapel & Bow Railway on 2nd June 1902.
Location: Bow Road
Original line: Whitechapel and Bow Railway (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and District Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: London Underground stations 2010-2023
Date: 05/01/2013
Image number: 73906
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