Vintage London Underground clocks to be added to Chadwell Heath station
Aug
01
2019
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Station Address | Chadwell Heath Rail Station , Chadwell Heath station, Station Road, Chadwell Heath, Greater London |
Postcode | RM6 4BU |
Chadwell Heath Rail Station is in London TravelZone: 5
Circa Jun 1972 | The signal box (dating from 1949) closed in June 1972 with responsibility for signalling the area passing to Goodmayes. |
Circa Apr 1941 | The station suffered a direct bomb hit in April 1941, which wrecked Platform 1 and the footbridge and damaged the ticket office. |
16th Nov 1901 | About a mile of railway sleepers stacked up along the line for an upgrade caught fire in the evening. |
Circa Jan 1901 | The railway line was quadrupled between Ilford and Romford in 1899-1902 and a new station with four platforms was opened in 1901. |
11th Jan 1864 | The station was opened on this day by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on the line between London and Romford built by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1839 (extended in 1840 to Brentwood and thereafter to Colchester and Norwich), the GER having taken over the line in 1862. |