Upney
LUL S7 stock with a District Line service from Upminster to Richmond arriving at Upney on 23rd February 2016. District trains reached Barking in 1908 and until 1939 there was a through service between Ealing Broadway and Southend Central, changing from District electric locomotives to LTSR steam at Barking. Suspended at the outbreak of WWII, this service never resumed after 1945. By virtue of its connection to the Midland Railway via the Tottenham & Forest Gate line of 1894 (now part of the London Overground GOBLIN), the LTSR became part of the Midland in 1912 and then the LMSR in 1923, who opened an extra set of electrified tracks alongside the Southend line (on right) from Barking to Upminster for the exclusive use of District trains but owned by them, in 1932. These tracks had four new island platform stations, Upney being the first east of Barking. The LMS Southend line became part of British Railways London Midland Region at Nationalisation in 1948 but in 1949 control passed to the more logical Eastern Region, who still owned all the stations served by the District Line between Bromley (now Bromley-By-Bow) and Upminster. Not until 1969 were these transferred to London Transport ownership (when LT roundel nameboards replaced BR totem signs) although Barking and Upminster remained in main line ownership, as they still do, now part of the C2C system.
Location: Upney
Original line: Barking to Upminster Quadrupling (London, Midland and Scottish Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: LU S7 stock trains, Circle, District and Hammersmith & City Lines, 2014-2023
Date: 23/02/2016
Image number: 81960
