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Barking London Underground London Overground National Rail
Large concrete and glass station building with wide pavement outside and bus stop. There are three white colour benches outside and a red London bus is pulling away.
Entrance to Station Parade
Map Interactive map of Barking
General information
LocationBarking
Local authorityLondon Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Managed byc2c
Owner
Station codeBKG
DfT categoryB
Number of platforms9
Tracks8
AccessibleYes[1][2]
Fare zone4
London Underground annual entry and exit
2021Decrease 9.27 million[3]
2022Increase 14.56 million[4]
2023Increase 15.14 million[5]
2024Increase 17.47 million[6]
2025Decrease 17.41 million[7]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2020–21Decrease 6.743 million[8]
 Interchange Decrease 0.263 million[8]
2021–22Increase 5.982 million[8]
 Interchange Increase 1.500 million[8]
2022–23Increase 12.730 million[8]
 Interchange Decrease 0.746 million[8]
2023–24Increase 13.236 million[8]
 Interchange Increase 1.122 million[8]
2024–25Increase 13.359 million[8]
 Interchange Increase 1.163 million[8]
Railway companies
Original companyLondon, Tilbury and Southend Railway
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
13 April 1854 (1854-04-13)Opened
2 June 1902District line started
30 September 1905District withdrawn
1 April 1908District line restarted
30 March 1936Metropolitan line started
Listed status
Listed featureBooking hall
Listing gradeII
Entry number1242678[9]
Added to list24 November 1995
Other information
External links
Coordinates51°32′21″N 0°04′54″E / 51.5393°N 0.0817°E / 51.5393; 0.0817

Barking is an interchange station in the town of Barking in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, East London. It is on the London, Tilbury and Southend line, 7 miles 42 chains (12.1 km) down the line from Fenchurch Street in Central London. On the London Underground, it is on the District line and is the eastern terminus of the Hammersmith & City line. On the London Overground, it is on the Suffragette line. The station was opened by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway on 13 April 1854 as the first station reached on the initial line from Forest Gate Junction. It became an interchange station in 1858 when a more direct line to Fenchurch Street was constructed. A further branch opened in 1885 and was completed in 1888, providing a faster route to Southend. It was connected to the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway in 1894. It became the eastern terminus for electric District Railway trains in 1908, with electric service extended to Upminster in 1932. Metropolitan line service commenced in 1936. The large station building was rebuilt in 1961 and is now Grade II listed. It is in London fare zone 4.

History

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Barking was the first place reached by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR) on their line that started at Forest Gate Junction on the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) and opened on 13 April 1854.[10] The route to Fenchurch Street in London via the ECR was indirect and became congested. The LTSR built a more direct line between Barking and the London and Blackwall Extension Railway at Bow, with passenger service starting on 31 March 1858.[11] The LTSR ceased to operate passenger services between Forest Gate Junction and Barking and this section was then used by ECR trains that terminated at Barking.[12] Between 1885 and 1888 a new route authorised as the Barking and Pitsea Railway was constructed, that branched off to the east of Barking. It provided a more direct service from London to Southend, avoiding Tilbury.[13]

The station was expanded in 1889 with the addition of two platforms and a new station building.[14] In 1894, the line to Forest Gate Junction provided a connection to the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway (TFGR), with through services to St Pancras and Moorgate via an indirect route.[15][a] The Whitechapel and Bow Railway opened on 2 June 1902 and allowed through services of the District Railway (DR) to operate to Upminster.[17] Service began at Barking on 2 June 1902.[18] The DR was fourth-rail electrified over a second pair of tracks, and the service was cut back from Upminster to East Ham from 30 September 1905.[19] On 1 April 1908, electric service was extended to Barking. Two platforms were initially provided and this was expanded to four in 1911.[20] The LTSR and TFGR became part of the Midland Railway (MR) in 1912.[21][b] The MR was amalgamated into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) on 1 January 1923.[23]

Delayed by World War I, an additional pair of electrified tracks were extended by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway from Barking to Upminster allowing through DR service to resume in 1932.[24] The DR was incorporated into London Transport in 1933, and became known as the District line.[25] The eastern section of the District line was very overcrowded by the mid 1930s.[26] In order to relieve this, the Metropolitan line service was extended to Barking.[27][c] Barking was served by a single daily Metropolitan line train from Hammersmith from 30 March 1936.[29] This was expanded from 4 May 1936 with an eight trains per hour service between Barking and Hammersmith at peak times.[29] The Hammersmith service was swapped for longer Uxbridge trains from 17 July 1939, at eight trains per hour at peak times. This service was suspended on 6 October 1941 with Hammersmith trains again running to Barking.[30] After nationalisation of the railways in 1948, management of Barking station passed to British Railways.[31]

The main station building was replaced and the platforms reconfigured, with works starting in 1959.[32] In order to completely separate District line services from British Railways, two flyovers and a dive-under were constructed either side of the station. This allowed for cross-platform interchange between District line and Fenchurch Street services.[33] Through trains from St Pancras were replaced by the Kentish Town to Barking service from 15 September 1958.[34] The new booking hall was opened by the Queen in 1961. On 30 July 1990, the Hammersmith–Barking service of the Metropolitan line gained a separate identity as the Hammersmith & City line.[35] The London, Tilbury and Southend line was run by a private operator from 26 May 1996, initially known as LTS Rail.[36] From 13 December 2009, off-peak Hammersmith & City line service was extended from Whitechapel to Barking with a daily all-day service at East Ham.[37] The London Overground service at the station was rebranded as the Suffragette line from November 2024.[38] Private operation of the London, Tilbury and Southend line by Trenitalia c2c ceased on 20 July 2025, with the new publicly owned operator c2c taking over.[39]

Incidents

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During the Blitz of the Second World War, Barking station was damaged by bombs on 7 September 1940 and 12 September 1940.[40]

Design

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A concrete building with windows in the upper part of the walls. The lower part of the room is busy with people are small shop units.
The interior of the 1961 booking hall in 2019, prior to refurbishment

The station consists of nine platforms facing eight tracks on an east–west alignment. Platform 1, the northernmost, is a terminal platform that can only be accessed from the Gospel Oak to Barking line to the west and is unused in normal service. It shares an island with a unnumbered platform face used by eastbound London Underground trains continuing in service towards Upminster.[d] Platform 2, also served by the eastbound London Underground with doors opening on both sides of the train, shares an island with platform 4, the down line to Southend via Upminster. Platform 3, at the west end of the island, is a bay platform for London Underground service. Platform 5, the main up line to Fenchurch Street, shares an island with platform 6, for westbound London Underground service. Platform 7, served by the eastbound Suffragette line and the down line towards Grays via Rainham, shares the southernmost island with platform 8, for the westbound Suffragette line and the up line for Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street.[42]

The main station building has been replaced several times with no trace of earlier iterations. The 1854 building was a simple brick structure on the up platform, similar to that built at Grays.[14] The 1889 building was still quite small and was architecturally similar to the still-existing station at West Horndon, including the "porch" entrance.[43] The 1908 station building, built over the tracks, was a timber construction with brick frontage. Luggage lifts were provided to the platforms. This building originally consisted of a separate booking hall and parcels office, but these were later combined into a single space.[44]

A platform under a canopy with a track in the background accessed from both sides by platform. Behind that is a long light-brick platform building.
The 1961 platform buildings remain on platform 1, but were substantially removed from other platforms

The current booking hall, footbridge, staircases and platform buildings are from 1961 and were designed by a group of British Railways Eastern Region architects led by John Ward. The main structure is a precast concrete and glass building with a roof that projects forward to provide a street-facing canopy.[45] Pevsner says "it is commensurately modern in outlook and unquestionably one of the best English stations of this date" and echoes the 1956 Eugenio Montuori design of Roma Termini.[46] It has been a Grade II listed building since 24 November 1995.[9] Although platforms were reconfigured in 1961, sections of platform canopy from 1908, minus the wooden valancing, were retained and mixed with new sections built in 1961. The 1908 platform buildings were replaced with new constructions in 1961. These were removed or substantially shortened in 1994, except for the 1/2 island which has the full length platform building from 1961.[47][32] Plans to refurbish the 1961 booking hall and provide a second entrance to the footbridge were announced in 2019.[48]

Location

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Long bus stop outside a concrete and glass station station building. A red London bus is pulling up outside. The bis stop is full of people waiting.
The frontage of the station is a busy bus interchange

The station is located on Station Parade, in the town of Barking in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is served by London Buses routes 5, 62, 169, 238, 287, 366, 368, 687, EL1, EL2, EL3, SL2 and night route N15.[49] Upney is 1.47 km (0.91 miles) to the east of the station and East Ham is 2.29 km (1.42 miles) to the west. It is 12.34 km (7.67 miles) along the line from Tower Hill in Central London and 12.34 km (7.67 miles) from the eastern terminus at Upminster.[50] The station is 7 miles 42 chains (12.1 km) down the line from Fenchurch Street.[42]

Services

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View from the end of an island platform with a white and blue train in the right hand track. To the left, three other islands can be seen. In the foreground is the gantry for the overhead wire catenary power supply for some of the tracks.
The four sets of island platforms viewed from the west

Barking station is managed by c2c. It is in London fare zone 4. The typical weekday off-peak c2c service from the station is eight trains per hour to Fenchurch Street, four to Shoeburyness via Basildon,[e] two to Southend Central via Ockendon and two to Grays via Rainham.[51] The typical off-peak District line service from the station is fifteen trains per hour to Earl's Court, of which six continue to Ealing Broadway, six continue to Richmond and three continue to Wimbledon.[50] There are six Hammersmith & City line trains an hour to Hammersmith at all times.[52] The typical Suffragette line service is four trains per hour to Gospel Oak and four to Barking Riverside.[53] With 17.41 million entries and exits in 2025, it ranked 30th busiest London Underground station.[7]

Notes

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  1. ↑ Initially, local services terminated at East Ham rather than Barking.[16]
  2. ↑ The TFGR was an existing joint venture between the LTSR and the MR.[22]
  3. ↑ This was achieved by diverting Metropolitan line trains that had previously been routed onto the East London Line at Whitechapel.[28]
  4. ↑ The unnumbered platform was brought into use on 2 February 1964.[41]
  5. ↑ Two trains per hour all stations and two semi-fast.[51]

References

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Citations

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  1. ↑ "Step free Tube Guide" (PDF). Transport for London. April 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2025.
  2. ↑ "London and South East" (PDF). National Rail. September 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009.
  3. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Archived from the original on 6 April 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  4. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Archived from the original on 19 March 2025. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  5. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Archived from the original on 31 May 2025. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  6. ↑ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2024. Transport for London. 20 January 2026 [8 October 2025]. Archived from the original on 27 March 2026. Retrieved 27 March 2026.
  7. 1 2 "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2025. Transport for London. 13 May 2026. Archived from the original on 19 July 2026. Retrieved 24 July 2026.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Table 1415: Time series of passenger entries, exits and interchanges by station, Great Britain, annual data, April 1997 to March 2025" (ODS). Office of Rail Regulation. 4 December 2025. Archived from the original on 9 March 2026. Note: Methodology may vary year-on-year.
  9. 1 2 Historic England. "Barking Station booking hall (1242678)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  10. ↑ Kay 1996, pp. 18, 20.
  11. ↑ Kay 1996, pp. 25–28.
  12. ↑ Kay 1996, p. 60.
  13. ↑ Kay 1996, pp. 61, 64.
  14. 1 2 Kay 2019, p. 573.
  15. ↑ Kay 1997, pp. 91–92.
  16. ↑ Kay 1997, p. 91.
  17. ↑ Horne 2018, pp. 160–171.
  18. ↑ Rose, Douglas (1999). The London Underground: A diagrammatic history (7 ed.). Douglas Rose. ISBN 1-85414-219-4.
  19. ↑ Horne 2019, pp. 126–127.
  20. ↑ Kay 2019, pp. 578, 586.
  21. ↑ Kay 1997, pp. 128–129.
  22. ↑ Kay 1997, p. 88.
  23. ↑ Acworth, W. M. (1923). "Grouping Under the Railways Act, 1921". The Economic Journal. 33 (129): 21–22. doi:10.2307/2222914. ISSN 0013-0133. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  24. ↑ Kay 2010, pp. 151, 183.
  25. ↑ Horne 2019, p. 344.
  26. ↑ Horne 2019, p. 353.
  27. ↑ Horne 2019, pp. 353–354.
  28. ↑ Horne 2006, p. 65.
  29. 1 2 Horne 2019, p. 354.
  30. ↑ Horne 2006, p. 68.
  31. ↑ Horne 2006, pp. 82–83.
  32. 1 2 Kay 2019, p. 601.
  33. ↑ Kay 2019, p. 591.
  34. ↑ Kay 2019, p. 597.
  35. ↑ "Salmon pink for new LUL line". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 136, no. 1074. October 1990. p. 646.
  36. ↑ "Office of Passenger Rail Franchising:The award of the first three passenger rail franchises". National Audit Office. 16 October 1996. pp. 2–18. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  37. ↑ "Review of the New Sub-Surface Railway Service Pattern Introduced on 13 December 2009" (PDF). Transport for London. 8 February 2011. Section 7.9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 August 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
  38. ↑ "Transport for London rolls out new Overground names and colours". BBC News. 20 November 2024. Archived from the original on 18 January 2025. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
  39. ↑ Adams, Lewis. "Trains return to public ownership in south Essex". BBC News. BBC. Archived from the original on 28 July 2025. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  40. ↑ Kay 2014, p. 245.
  41. ↑ Kay 2019, p. 600.
  42. 1 2 Padgett, David; Kelman, Leanne (2024) [1994]. Munsey, Myles (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (5th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. map 44B. ISBN 1999627172.
  43. ↑ Kay 2019, p. 575.
  44. ↑ Kay 2019, pp. 582–583.
  45. ↑ Lawrence 2018, p. 84.
  46. ↑ Cherry, Bridget (2005). London. 5, East. O'Brien, Charles., Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 133. ISBN 0-300-10701-3. OCLC 57431801.
  47. ↑ Kay 2012, p. 59.
  48. ↑ Hewitt, Sam (23 April 2019). "Grade-II listed railway station set for a multi-million pound refurb". Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
  49. ↑ "Buses from Barking" (PDF). Transport for London. June 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  50. 1 2 "District line working timetable 156" (PDF). Transport for London. 12 January 2026. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 January 2026. Retrieved 24 January 2026.
  51. 1 2 "c2c Train Times" (PDF). c2c. May 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 June 2025. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  52. ↑ "Circle and Hammersmith & City line working timetable 39" (PDF). Transport for London. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 December 2025. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  53. ↑ "Suffragette line" (PDF). Transport for London. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2026. Retrieved 3 May 2026. Valid from Sunday 14 December 2025 until further notice

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Preceding station London Underground Following station
East Ham
towards Wimbledon, Richmond or Ealing Broadway
 District line
 Upney
towards Upminster
East Ham
towards Hammersmith
 Hammersmith & City line Terminus
Preceding station London Overground Following station
Woodgrange Park
towards Gospel Oak
 Suffragette line
Gospel Oak to Barking line
 Barking Riverside
Terminus
Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
West Ham   c2c
London, Tilbury and Southend line
   Upminster
    Dagenham Dock
c2c
Liverpool Street–Barking (limited services)
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