Goodmayes railway station is a railway station at
GoodmayesGoodmayes is a district of Ilford in north-east London, England. It is a suburban development in the London Borough of Redbridge and forms part of the Ilford post town, situated approximately two miles to the east of Ilford town centre....
in the
London Borough of RedbridgeThe London Borough of Redbridge is a London borough in outer north-east London. Its administrative headquarters is at Redbridge Town Hall in Ilford. The local authority is Redbridge London Borough Council.-Etymology:...
in east London, opened on 18 February 1901 by the
Great Eastern RailwayThe Great Eastern Railway was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia...
(GER) on the
Main LineThe Great Eastern Main Line is a 212 Kilometre major railway line of the British railway system, which connects Liverpool Street in the City of London with destinations in east London and the East of England, including Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich, Norwich and several coastal resorts such as...
from
Liverpool StreetLiverpool Street can refer to:*Liverpool Street station, a major mainline railway station in Central London, England*Liverpool Street, Hobart, a major street in the Hobart city centre....
. The station once had an extensive
shunting yardShunting yard may refer to:* Classification yard* Shunting yard algorithm* British term for rail yard...
for goods traffic but this fell into disuse during Dr. Beeching's modernisation (known at the time as "axing") of the railway system in 1963, and was eventually dismantled. The site of the yard stood on the area between the present track and the High Road and has been replaced by a
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Extra superstore, other stores and housing.
It is proposed that the
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line will stop here. The station is in
Travelcard Zone 4Fare zone 4 is a zone of Transport for London's zonal fare system used for calculating the price of tickets for travel on the London Underground, London Overground, Docklands Light Railway and, since 2007, on National Rail services...
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Train services
The following services currently call at Goodmayes:
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Transport links
London Bus routes 364, 387, walk to Tesco 24hours and High Road at Goodmayes routes 86 and N86.
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