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London Overground Class 378 units 2010-2023

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<h4><a href='/locations/D/Dalston_Junction'>Dalston Junction</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/North_London_Railway'>North London Railway</a></small></p><p>378153, in one of the two bay platforms at the new Dalston Junction station, on 11th December 2010, nine months after it opened. It is on the site of the original Dalston Junction that opened in 1865 with the North London Railway's City branch to its grand terminus at Broad Street but that line closed in 1986. I remember the old Dalston Junction, which was open to the sky, very well. It was redolent of decay with unrepaired war damage. All the old ravaged buildings were torn down by BR in the 1970s and replaced with, inevitably, ghastly bus stop style waiting shelters. Personally, I preferred the ruins. On the outside of the two bay platforms are the through platforms for trains from Highbury & Islington to Crystal Palace, West Croydon and Clapham Junction. All trains from New Cross, however, terminate at Dalston Junction. 1/58</p><p>11/12/2010<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Hackney_Central'>Hackney Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378213, with a London Overground service to Stratford, departing from Hackney Central station on 11th December 2010. This line and the original station here, known simply as Hackney, opened as part of the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway in 1850 but the line's title was too much for 'the man in the street' and in 1853 it became the North London Railway, even though this section is in east London. Passenger services between Dalston Junction and Poplar ceased after heavy war damage in 1944 and the stations closed but in 1979 the section of line through Hackney was reopened, with services running to Stratford via the GER link from the former junction at Victoria Park. Hackney Central station opened in 1980 and is more or less on the site of the former Hackney station of which substantial remains of the entrance building are still in evidence. The line was incorporated into the London Overground network in 2007. 2/58</p><p>11/12/2010<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Hackney_Central'>Hackney Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378201, with a London Overground service from Stratford to Richmond, arriving at Hackney Central station on 11th December 2010. Behind the train are the remains of the former Broad Street bound platform and part of its wall of the original Hackney station (1850-1944) while, in the left background, is the original station's main building, now in commercial use. This is the first section of the line to open from Bow to Highbury & Islington on 26th September 1850 under the long-winded title East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway which was shortened to the simpler North London Railway in 1853, even though this section is in EAST London. Just to add to the confusion, much of what was known actually as the East London Railway and now forms part of the London Overground between Shoreditch and New Cross/New Cross Gate, is in SOUTH London! 3/58</p><p>11/12/2010<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Honor_Oak_Park'>Honor Oak Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Croydon_Railway'>London and Croydon Railway</a></small></p><p>378 136 working third rail, with a London Overground service to Crystal Palace, arriving at Honor Oak Park in south London, also served by Southern services, on 15th October 2011. This station is not to be confused with the former Honor Oak station, now demolished, on the Crystal Palace High Level branch from Nunhead, that paralleled this line about half a mile away to the west and which closed in 1954. Coincidentally, the same year that the Alexandra Palace branch in north London closed, after almost becoming part of the London Underground Northern Line. 4/58</p><p>15/10/2011<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/Watford_High_Street'>Watford High Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Watford_and_Rickmansworth_Railway'>Watford and Rickmansworth Railway</a></small></p><p>378218, with a London Overground service from Watford Junction to Euston, approaching its first stop at Watford High Street on 18th February 2012. Until 1982, LUL Bakerloo Line 1938 stock trains came this way too. 5/58</p><p>18/02/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Canonbury'>Canonbury</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378 149, with a London Overground service to Highbury & Islington, arriving at its penultimate stop at Canonbury on 23rd August 2012. These former through platforms are now served by trains between Highbury & Islington and Crystal Palace or West Croydon or Clapham Junction via Peckham Rye (trains to New Cross start from Dalston Junction) via a reopened section of the former North London Railway's Broad Street viaduct. Trains between Stratford and Richmond or Clapham Junction via Kensington (Olympia) now serve two reinstated platforms on the north side. This station was opened in 1870, replacing an earlier one called Newington Road & Balls Pond a short distance east that had opened in 1858, 8 years after the line. It was badly damaged during the London 'Blitz' and, though still in use, the ruins survived for many years and I remember them well. The roof of the passageway leading to the ticket office had completely disintegrated and on wet days the rain poured in and there were also holes in the roof of the ticket office. Many times I espied the ticket clerk sitting under an umbrella in a desperate attempt to stay dry. These ruins were swept away in the 1970s when the once grand NLR station entrance was demolished and replaced by an ugly concrete block that resembles more a public convenience than a railway station. All the war-ravaged platform buildings were demolished at the same time and replaced, inevitably, by bus stop style waiting shelters which were also replaced in the 1990s with, that's right, more bus shelters! Personally, I preferred its moribund condition though I suspect I was in the minority and, of course, I didn't have to work there. 6/58</p><p>23/08/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Canonbury'>Canonbury</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378220, with a London Overground service to Richmond, arriving at one of two reinstated platforms on the north side of Canonbury station on 23rd August 2012. The one-time through platforms on the south side of the station are now served by trains coming up from south London along a reinstated section of the former North London Railway's Broad Street viaduct, and which terminate at Highbury & Islington. 7/58</p><p>23/08/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/S/Shoreditch_High_Street'>Shoreditch High Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_London_Railway_to_North_London_Railway_link_East_London_Line'>East London Railway to North London Railway link (East London Line)</a></small></p><p>378135, with a London Overground service to Highbury & Islington, calling at Shoreditch High Street station, on 13th November 2012. This station opened in April 2010 and is on the then new link between the former North London Railway's Broad Street viaduct, closed in 1986 and which was partially reopened, and the former London Underground East London Line. 8/58</p><p>13/11/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Clapham_High_Street'>Clapham High Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines:_Wandsworth_Road_Junction_to_Barrington_Road_Junction_London,_Chatham_and_Dover_Railway'>New Lines: Wandsworth Road Junction to Barrington Road Junction (London, Chatham and Dover Railway)</a></small></p><p>378220, to Highbury & Islington, arriving at Clapham High Street on 9th December 2012, the first day of London Overground services at this station. This replaced the South London Metro service from London Bridge to Victoria so that any passengers from this station to Victoria thenceforth had to change at Clapham Junction. But with the long walks there between platforms, it is much quicker and easier to get from Clapham to Victoria by using the nearby Northern Line station at Clapham North and changing to the Victoria Line at Stockwell where same-level interchange and the minimum of walking is available. Clapham residents still protested at the loss of their direct service to Victoria - and to London Bridge too. 9/58</p><p>09/12/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/D/Denmark_Hill'>Denmark Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/South_London_Line:_Victoria_Approach_and_Brixton_to_Peckham_Rye_Line_London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway'>South London Line: Victoria Approach and Brixton to Peckham Rye Line (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway)</a></small></p><p>378223 to Clapham Junction arriving at Denmark Hill on 9th December 2012, the first day of London Overground services at this south-of-the-Thames station. 10/58</p><p>09/12/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/P/Peckham_Rye'>Peckham Rye</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/South_London_Line:_Victoria_Approach_and_Brixton_to_Peckham_Rye_Line_London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway'>South London Line: Victoria Approach and Brixton to Peckham Rye Line (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway)</a></small></p><p>378140, from Clapham Junction to Highbury & Islington, at Peckham Rye on 19th December 2012, the first day of London Overground services at this station. The long established South London Metro service from London Bridge to Victoria ceased the day before, to the chagrin of many of its users. See <a href='/img/6/570/index.html'>6570</a>. 11/58</p><p>19/12/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378210, with a London Overground service to Richmond, departing from Gospel Oak station in the heavy snow of a freezing Sunday afternoon, 20th January 2013. Most people who alighted here were armed with sledges, off to enjoy themselves on the slippery slopes of Parliament Hill which the line runs alongside just to the west of the station. 12/58</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Highbury_and_Islington'>Highbury and Islington</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>London Overground units 378137 and 378153 at a snowy Highbury & Islington station on 20th January 2013. 13/58</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Highbury_and_Islington'>Highbury and Islington</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378153, with a London Overground service, just arrived at Highbury & Islington station where it terminated, in the heavy snow of 20th January 2013. 14/58</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Highbury_and_Islington'>Highbury and Islington</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>London Overground units 378153 and 378137 at Highbury & Islington in heavy snow on 20th January 2013. 15/58</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Highbury_and_Islington'>Highbury and Islington</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378231, with a London Overground service to Stratford, calling at Highbury & Islington in inclement conditions on 20th January 2013. 16/58</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Haggerston'>Haggerston</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/North_London_Railway'>North London Railway</a></small></p><p>378153, with a London Overground service to Highbury & Islington, arriving at Haggerston station through the snow on 20th January 2013. This station opened in 2010, just north of the previous station of that name that had closed after heavy war damage in 1940. The station is on the partially reopened Broad Street viaduct of the North London Railway opened in 1865 and closed in 1986. 17/58</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/Whitechapel_ELR'>Whitechapel [ELR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/O/Old_Kent_Road_Extension_and_Shoreditch_Extension_East_London_Railway'>Old Kent Road Extension and Shoreditch Extension (East London Railway)</a></small></p><p>378137, with a southbound London Overground service, arriving at Whitechapel station on a snowy 20th January 2013. 18/58</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Hampstead'>West Hampstead</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378211 with a London Overground service to Stratford arriving at West Hampstead station, on the snowy afternoon of 22nd January 2013. This station on the Hampstead Junction Railway of 1860 was opened in 1888 as West End Lane and renamed in 1975 in conjunction with the nearby Thameslink and LUL Jubilee Line stations though, at that time, the LUL station was part of the Bakerloo Line. The three stations are entirely separate but all remarkably close together on West End Lane within a few paces walking distance of each other. 19/58</p><p>22/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/S/South_Hampstead'>South Hampstead</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>New Lines (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378233, with a London Overground Euston to Watford Junction service, emerging from tunnel and arriving at its first stop at South Hampstead on 15th June 2013. This station opened in 1879 as Loudoun Road for Swiss Cottage and was renamed in 1922. The disused platforms on the WCML are out of view on the right (see image <a href='/img/67/931/index.html'>67931</a>). Just above the tunnel portals in the background runs the Chiltern Line to and from Marylebone without a station here, so no interchange facilities. 20/58</p><p>15/06/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/S/Shepherds_Bush'>Shepherd's Bush</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_London_Railway'>West London Railway</a></small></p><p>378209, with a London Overground service from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction, arriving at Shepherd's Bush station on 4th September 2013. This section of the West London Line had closed to regular traffic in 1940 but remained open for freight and summer excursions to the south coast until fully reopened in 1994 with a service of diesel units between Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction. This was later electrified and became part of London Overground in 2007 with Shepherd's Bush station opening more or less on the site of Uxbridge Road station, that had closed in 1940, in 2008. Most London Overground trains now work through all the way from Clapham Junction to Stratford via Hampstead Heath and the station is also served by Southern services between Milton Keynes Central and East Croydon. 21/58</p><p>04/09/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Brondesbury_Park'>Brondesbury Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378230, with a London Overground service to Richmond, arriving at Brondesbury Park in north London on 14th September 2013. The Hampstead Junction Railway from Camden Road to Willesden Junction opened in 1860 but this station was not added until 1908. Demolition of the original Edwardian buildings took place at the end of the 1960s, apart from the entrance on the road overbridge in the background and original stairwells. 22/58</p><p>14/09/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Battersea_Park'>Battersea Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/V/Victoria_Station_and_Pimlico_Railway_London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway;_London,_Chatham_and_Dover_Railway;_Great_Western_Railway;_London_and_North_Western_Railway,'>Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway; London, Chatham and Dover Railway; Great Western Railway; London and North Western Railway,)</a></small></p><p>378153, with a London Overground service terminating at Battersea Park station, on 17th May 2014. This is not a regular London Overground station but very occasionally, when for one reason or another it is not possible for these trains to run to Clapham Junction, they are diverted over the route of the former South London Metro to Battersea Park where connections can be made for Clapham Junction. These platforms were closed to regular trains in December 2010 and the track from the former London Bridge bound platform (on right) has been removed. 23/58</p><p>17/05/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/Wapping'>Wapping</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Wapping_and_Rotherhithe_Tunnel'>Wapping and Rotherhithe Tunnel</a></small></p><p>Class 378 unit on a southbound London Overground service about to depart from Wapping station and enter the eastern portal of the historic Thames Tunnel, on 1st March 2014. Designed by Sir Mark Brunel, father of Isambard Kingdom, construction of the world's first under water tunnel began in 1825 and took 18 years to complete. It opened as a pedestrian subway in 1843 and, despite shops and the occasional fair being held, it was little used and was later taken over by the East London Railway Company with the first trains running through from the south as far as Wapping in 1869. 24/58</p><p>01/03/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Brompton'>West Brompton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_London_Extension_Railway'>West London Extension Railway</a></small></p><p>378223, with a London Overground service to Clapham Junction, arriving at West Brompton station, on 24th May 2014. The former West London Extension Railway was closed to local trains as a Second World War economy in October 1940 but remained open for through freight and summer excursions to the south coast until fully reopened to passengers in 1994. This station was opened in 1999 on the site of the WLER station that had closed in 1940; on the right is the LUL District Line station (Wimbledon branch). For many years this was closed at weekends but, since becoming an interchange with the London Overground, is now open full time again. Southern services also call at the LO platforms. 25/58</p><p>24/05/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Brompton'>West Brompton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_London_Extension_Railway'>West London Extension Railway</a></small></p><p>378 224, working third rail with a London Overground service from Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction, approaching West Brompton station where platform lengthening was taking place, on 24th May 2014. On the left, the LUL District Line branch to Wimbledon, which has its own platforms here, descends to pass obliquely beneath the LO tracks, the latter also served by Southern trains. See image <a href='/img/6/247/index.html'>6247</a>. 26/58</p><p>24/05/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/B/Brondesbury'>Brondesbury</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378220, with a London Overground service to Stratford, departing from Brondesbury on 16th February 2016. This station was shoddily rebuilt at platform level in the 1960s, when its original wooden Victorian buildings were demolished and replaced by the usual ghastly bus stop style waiting shelters that are still there today, when the Broad Street to Richmond line, as it then was, was saved from the Beeching cuts. Its mind-blowing that Beeching ever had the audacity to propose closure of a line through the heavily built-up London suburbs in the first place. 27/58</p><p>16/02/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378221, with a London Overground service to Stratford, at Gospel Oak on 17th February 2016. 28/58</p><p>17/02/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Honor_Oak_Park'>Honor Oak Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Croydon_Railway'>London and Croydon Railway</a></small></p><p>378212, with a London Overground service to West Croydon, departing from Honor Oak Park station on 30th September 2016. 29/58</p><p>30/09/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/S/Sydenham'>Sydenham</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Croydon_Railway'>London and Croydon Railway</a></small></p><p>378234, with a London Overground service to Crystal Palace, arriving at Sydenham station on 30th September 2016. 30/58</p><p>30/09/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Camden_Road'>Camden Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378219 with a London Overground service to Stratford at Camden Road station, north-west London, on 5th January 2019. This was once an island platform with a further side platform on the far side behind the fence, abandoned many years ago. 31/58</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Camden_Road'>Camden Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378219 with a London Overground service to Stratford departing from Camden Road station, North London, on 5th January 2019. This station opened in December 1850 as Camden Town and was renamed 100 years later in 1950. It is still possible to see the old name engraved on the walls of the surviving and quite splendid original NLR station. Most of the other stations had theirs demolished and replaced with ghastly concrete blocks resembling more a public urinal than a railway station. 32/58</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/K/Kentish_Town_West'>Kentish Town West</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378219 with a London Overground service to Stratford arriving at Kentish Town West station on 5th January 2019. 33/58</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/A/Acton_Central'>Acton Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/North_and_South_Western_Junction_Railway'>North and South Western Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378227, with a London Overground service from Stratford to Richmond, arriving over Churchfield Road level crossing into Acton Central, on 9th February 2019. This station is the changeover point between overhead and third-rail electrification for co-running with the LU District Line between Gunnersbury and Richmond. 34/58</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/A/Acton_Central'>Acton Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/North_and_South_Western_Junction_Railway'>North and South Western Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378220 with a London Overground service from Richmond to Stratford arriving at Acton Central station, opened in 1853, on 9th February 2019. When this station was part of the Broad Street to Richmond line, it was listed for closure in the infamous Beeching Report of 1963 but the line was reprieved, after much opposition from local residents, in 1966. It would have been madness to have closed an orbital suburban line that gets passengers from suburb to suburb quicker than any of the English Capital's buses can. Broad Street did, however, close in 1986 and this part of today's London Overground network runs to Stratford along a reopened section of the eastern part of the North London Railway through the Hackney district of east London that had closed following war damage in 1944 and now carries more passengers than it ever did. Beeching must be spinning in his grave or at least hanging his head in shame for ever having had the audacity to propose the line for closure in the first place. 35/58</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/S/South_Acton'>South Acton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/North_and_South_Western_Junction_Railway'>North and South Western Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378219, with a London Overground service from Richmond to Stratford, departing from South Acton on 9th February 2019. This line was opened by the North & South Western Junction Railway from Willesden Junction to the Hounslow Loop at Kew in 1853; a link to the LSWR at Gunnersbury (known as Brentford Road until 1871) opened in 1869 shortening the journey to Richmond but South Acton station was not opened until 1880. LNWR (later LMSR) trains from Broad Street continued to run between South Acton and Kew Bridge until 1940. The flats on the left are of fairly recent construction and occupy the site of the former LUL District Line station, terminus of the one-stop shuttle from Acton Town that ceased on 28th February 1959. For many years, its site was a derelict wasteland. 36/58</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>In my photo of Crouch Hill station (Image number 67407) on the GOBLIN section of the London Overground, I stated that as of January 2019 us north Londoners were still waiting for our electric trains despite being promised them over a year earlier and then no later than December 2018. It is now February 2019 and electric trains are finally running but NOT with the bright new class 710 EMU's and NOT fulfilling the line's full service. There is still no confirmed date of when they will start operating on this route but, in the meantime and to avoid a total shutdown of the GOBLIN, TfL has drafted in some class 378s that have been used on the rest of the already electrified LO network since 2010. However, only three sets are to be used running alongside the class 172 units of which two have already been taken out of service for refurbishment ahead of their transfer to West Midlands Trains. If the 378s do not cover all the gaps in the GOBLIN service, there will be further reductions. A reduced service is currently already operating at weekends. At 12.11 on Wednesday, 13th February 2019, 378 232 arrives at Crouch Hill station with a Gospel Oak to Barking service. 37/58</p><p>13/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Crouch_Hill'>Crouch Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Hampstead_Junction_Railway'>Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378232, drafted in by TfL to fill a gap in the London Overground GOBLIN service caused by the late arrival of the new 710 EMUs, departing from Crouch Hill station in north London with a service from Barking to Gospel Oak, on 13th February 2019. This is the train I travelled on from Crouch Hill to Wanstead Park in the morning and back home again to Crouch Hill in the evening, my first electric journeys on this line that I have known since I was a schoolboy more than half a century ago. The class 172 diesels continue to run alongside the 378s for the present until such time as the 710s takeover completely; in the meantime, it is a case of pot luck what turns up at a GOBLIN station when you go to catch a train. 38/58</p><p>13/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/W/Wanstead_Park'>Wanstead Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/T/Tottenham_and_Forest_Gate_Railway'>Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway</a></small></p><p>378232, drafted in by TfL to fill gaps in the London Overground GOBLIN service caused by the late arrival of the new 710 EMUs, arriving at Wanstead Park station with a Barking to Gospel Oak train, on 13th February 2019. Class 172 diesel units continue to run on this service too, at least for the time being. 39/58</p><p>13/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/R/Richmond'>Richmond</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/R/Richmond_Railway'>Richmond Railway</a></small></p><p>378207, with a London Overground service to Stratford, waiting to depart from Richmond at dusk on 23rd February 2019. 40/58</p><p>23/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Clapham_Junction'>Clapham Junction</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southampton_Railway'>London and Southampton Railway</a></small></p><p>378148, with a London Overground service from Highbury & Islington via Surrey Quays, arriving at Clapham Junction on 23rd May 2015. The headboard reflected the recent introduction of new carriages taking all the 378s from three or four carriages to five per train. 41/58</p><p>29/07/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378210 with a London Overground service from Stratford to Richmond departing west from Gospel Oak station, on the afternoon of Friday, 9th August 2019. On the right behind the fence, and at a slightly higher level, 710266 waits in the bay platform before departing eastbound for Barking. Gospel Oak Junction is in the background. 42/58</p><p>09/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Hampstead_Heath'>Hampstead Heath</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378 223 with a London Overground service to Stratford arriving at Hampstead Heath station alongside 378 212 calling with a London Overground service to Richmond, on 16th September 2019. This station was originally opened in 1860; the platform buildings and canopies were rebuilt by British Railways London Midland Region in rather dull reinforced concrete which were replaced when the line was modernised in 1995/96. This saw the 1953 buildings disappear without trace to be replaced by two small open buildings with Victorian-style canopies, the only station on the line to be so treated during the 1990s update. 43/58</p><p>16/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Harlesden'>Harlesden</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>New Lines (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>The London Overground Euston to Watford Junction service is now operated mostly by the new 710 EMUs but some of the 378 units can still be seen and, of course, these continue to be the mainstay of the London Overground Stratford to Richmond and Clapham Junction services. 378 225, working third rail, arrives at Harlesden station with a LO service to Watford Junction on 4th January 2020. This station is also served by LUL Bakerloo Line services between Elephant & Castle and Harrow & Wealdstone. 44/58</p><p>04/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Harlesden'>Harlesden</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>New Lines (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378 225, working third rail, heading away from the camera as it departs north from Harlesden station with a London Overground service from Euston to Watford Junction, on 4th January 2020. This station is also served by LUL Bakerloo Line trains running from Elephant & Castle to Harrow & Wealdstone. 45/58</p><p>04/01/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378201, with a London Overground service to Stratford, departing from Gospel Oak, on 3rd February 2020. The bay platform for the LO GOBLIN service to Barking is on the left; however, as at the date of this photo, trains are only running on this service as far as South Tottenham, due to a freight derailment east thereof that damaged the track, which is likely to be out of action for several more weeks as Network Rail repair things. 46/58</p><p>03/02/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378202, with a London Overground service to Stratford, arriving at Gospel Oak on 21st August 2020. 47/58</p><p>21/08/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Caledonian_Road_and_Barnsbury'>Caledonian Road and Barnsbury</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378223, with a London Overground short working to Gunnersbury, arriving at Caledonian Road & Barnsbury station on the former North London Railway, on 21st August 2020. This is the first time I can recall a train not going the final two stops to Richmond. (As a footnote, Caledonia is the Roman name for Scotland and in the Middle Ages an asylum for Scottish servicemen was set up here and the road leading to it, now a major traffic artery, was quite logically called Caledonian Road. The site of the asylum is now rather grimly occupied by Pentonville Prison, a short distance north up the road from this station.) 48/58</p><p>21/08/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/F/Finchley_Road_and_Frognal'>Finchley Road and Frognal</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378218, heading away from the camera as it departs from Finchley Road & Frognal station with a London Overground service from Stratford to Clapham Junction, on 1st December 2020. 49/58</p><p>01/12/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Clapham_Junction'>Clapham Junction</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_London_Extension_Railway'>West London Extension Railway</a></small></p><p>Clapham Junction, after dark already before 5 p.m. on Saturday, 13th November 2021 and 378203 has just arrived from the West London Line with a London Overground service from Stratford. On the right side of this island, the most northerly of the station's seventeen platforms has been obsolete and trackless for decades. 50/58</p><p>13/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/C/Clapham_Junction'>Clapham Junction</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_London_Extension_Railway'>West London Extension Railway</a></small></p><p>378203 with a London Overground service to Stratford via Kensington (Olympia), Gospel Oak and Highbury & Islington waiting to depart at 17.04 from Clapham Junction, on 13th November 2021. This massive interchange station between the lines to and from Victoria and Waterloo has been known as Clapham Junction since its opening in 1863 but that is a misnomer since it is not in Clapham at all but in neighbouring Battersea. 51/58</p><p>13/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/S/Sydenham'>Sydenham</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Croydon_Railway'>London and Croydon Railway</a></small></p><p>378148 with a London Overground service from Crystal Palace to Highbury & Islington departing from its first stop at Sydenham with 377323 overtaking on a fast Southern service to London Bridge, both heading away from the camera, on the afternoon of 29th November 2021. Stopping Southern services also call here but the station has been operated by TfL since 23rd May 2010 when Overground trains first started calling. 52/58</p><p>29/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378210 with a London Overground service to Hackney Wick (with replacement bus service just one stop from there to Stratford), departing from Gospel Oak on 1st January 2022. 53/58</p><p>01/01/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/G/Gospel_Oak'>Gospel Oak</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead_Junction_Railway_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>378205, with a London Overground service to Clapham Junction, arriving at Gospel Oak on the afternoon of New Year's Day, Saturday, 1st January 2022. 54/58</p><p>01/01/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Haggerston'>Haggerston</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/North_London_Railway'>North London Railway</a></small></p><p>Seen through zoom lens from Haggerston station, 378145 with a London Overground service to Highbury & Islington is descending the incline on the approach to Dalston Junction on the fine and unusually warm afternoon of Saturday, 29th October 2022. This is the former North London Railway's Broad Street branch, closed in 1986 and partially reopened in 2010 with a new connection at Shoreditch to the former LU East London Line. 55/58</p><p>29/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/S/Surrey_Quays'>Surrey Quays</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_London_Railway'>East London Railway</a></small></p><p>378151, with a London Overground service from Highbury & Islington to Clapham Junction via Peckham Rye, departing from Surrey Quays on the afternoon of Saturday, 29th October 2022. This station was opened as Deptford Road by the East London Railway on 7th December 1869 and renamed Surrey Docks on 17th July 1911. It was renamed Surrey Quays by London Transport on 24th October 1989 and East London Line Underground trains ran for the last time on 21st December 2007. After reconstruction of the line Surrey Quays reopened on 27th April 2010 as part of the London Overground. 57/58</p><p>29/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

<h4><a href='/locations/H/Highbury_and_Islington'>Highbury and Islington</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_and_West_India_Docks_and_Birmingham_Junction_Railway'>East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway</a></small></p><p>378212, London Overground to Stratford arriving at Highbury & Islington station, in freezing conditions on 25th January 2023, when I was accompanied by my friend and fellow Railscot contributor Bill Roberton, taking him on a guided tour of parts of south-east and north London. The rest of the Capital will have to wait for his future visits! 58/58</p><p>25/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>

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