Upminster Bridge
LUL S7 stock a few minutes into its long District Line journey from Upminster in Essex to Richmond in Surrey, calling at all stations, departing from its first call at Upminster Bridge on 24th June 2021. On the left are the fast tracks on the C2C Shoeburyness to Fenchurch Street National Rail line. This station differs in two ways from the other island platform stations between Barking and Upminster; whereas Upney, Dagenham Heathway and Elm Park were all opened with the quadrupling of the line by the LMSR in 1932, and are approached by ramps down from their street level ticket halls that span the tracks, Upminster Bridge was a slightly later addition opening in 1934 and is on an embankment with stairs down to the street level entrance. All the stations between Bromley (now Bromley-by-Bow) and Upminster remained in BR Eastern Region ownership until 1969 when London Transport took over (except for Barking and Upminster) and replaced the Eastern Region running-in boards and totem signs at all the effected stations with LU roundels.
Location: Upminster Bridge
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: 24/06/2021
Image number: 77371
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