Leyton Midland Road
172 008, on a London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak to Barking, at Leyton Midland Road on 5th January 2013. This station, where the original atmospheric wooden platform buildings and canopies were torn down in the 1970s and replaced by draughty bus-stop style shelters, was opened as Leyton by the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway, which linked the Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway at South Tottenham with the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway at Woodgrange Park, on 9th July 1894. The suffix Midland Road was added post-nationalisation by BR Eastern Region in 1949. The scene here is now very different with masts and overhead wires in place. After several delays the EMUs arrived in 2019 and the class 172 units went to West Midlands Trains.
Location: Leyton Midland Road
Original line: Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Now withdrawn London Overground GOBLIN class 172 units, 2010-2019 Class 171 and 172 units 2010-2019
Date: 05/03/2013
Image number: 74198
