Victoria Park railway station (England)

Victoria Park
LocationHackney Wick
OwnerNorth London Railway
Number of platforms3
Key dates
14 June 1856 (1856-06-14)Opened
8 November 1943 (1943-11-08)Closed
Other information
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Victoria Park (opened as Victoria Park & Hackney Wick)[1] was a railway station near Victoria Park, east London,[2] that was on the North London Railway (NLR) which opened in September 1850 to Bow (where the trains turned east into the London and Blackwall Railway's Fenchurch Street station) and to the London Docks in January 1852.

A line linking the NLR line to the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) at Stratford was built with a junction east of the first station site in 1854, and two years after that the first station opened with a station building in Wick Road. At the time the station was between Hackney and Bow on the north London Railway with other stations opening later,

The original station was replaced in March 1866 by a larger station at the junction itself to cope with increased passenger numbers and this station lasted until closure in 1943. The Wick Rad buildings became two residential properties and these survived until 1958.

The second station building survived until 1970 when it was demolished to make way for a new road scheme and there are no remains today.

Railway Clearing House diagram showing the station top left
  1. ^ Knott, George. "Trial of Franz Muller". 1911. Butterworth & Co (Internet Archive). Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  2. ^ Catford, Nick. "Victoria Park (1st site)". Disused Stations Site Record. Nick Catford. Retrieved 17 February 2013.