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Upminster station

Upminster station is a London Underground

London Underground

The London Underground is a metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the UK....
and National Rail

National Rail

National Rail is a title used by the Association of Train Operating Companies. ATOC is an unincorporated association whose membership consists of the passenger Train Operating Company of Great Britain which now run the passenger services previously provided by the British Railways Board ....
station located in Upminster

Upminster

Upminster is a suburban town in the London Borough of Havering, East London, England. The name has its earliest recorded use in 1062 ....
in the London Borough of Havering

London Borough of Havering

The London Borough of Havering is a London borough in East London, England London, England and forms part of Outer London. The principal town in Havering is Romford and the other main settlements are Hornchurch, Upminster and Rainham, London....
.

History
The station was opened in 1885 by the London Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR) on a new direct route from London to Southend, avoiding Tilbury. It served as the eastern District line terminus from 1902, when the opening of the Whitechapel & Bow Railway

Whitechapel & Bow Railway

|}The Whitechapel & Bow Railway was an underground railway in east London, United Kingdom; now entirely integrated into the London Underground system....
enabled the trains of the Metropolitan District Railway

Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways

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Upminster station is a London Underground

London Underground

The London Underground is a metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the UK....
and National Rail

National Rail

Upminster

Upminster is a suburban town in the London Borough of Havering, East London, England. The name has its earliest recorded use in 1062 ....
in the London Borough of Havering

London Borough of Havering

History

The station was opened in 1885 by the London Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR) on a new direct route from London to Southend, avoiding Tilbury. It served as the eastern District line terminus from 1902, when the opening of the Whitechapel & Bow Railway

Whitechapel & Bow Railway

Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways

The Metropolitan Railway and the Metropolitan District Railway were the first two underground railways to be built in London, creating the world's first Rapid transit system....
to operate over the tracks of the LT&SR. When the District line was electrified in 1905, services were cut back to East Ham, and later Barking. Upminster was re-established as the eastern terminus in 1932 when the London, Midland and Scottish Railway

London, Midland and Scottish Railway

The London Midland and Scottish Railway was a United Kingdom railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921, which required the grouping of over 300 separate railway companies into just four....
(LMS) constructed an additional pair of tracks from Barking, which were fourth-rail electrified

Suburban electrification of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway , in common with the other Railways Act 1921 railways, was involved in the development of Railway electrification in Great Britain....
.

The station was greatly expanded in 1932 by the LMS and the main station buildings, the two footbridges and the buildings on the remaining platforms were constructed in typical 1930s style. A further platform for services to Romford was a later addition. The main station building which gives access to Station Road and the taxi rank

Hackney carriage

||-||-||}A hackney or hackney carriage is a carriage or automobile for hire. A livery carriage superior to the hackney was called a remise....
have been extensively redeveloped in contemporary style and include three units currently used as a W H Smith

W H Smith

W H Smith plc is a United Kingdom retailer, headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It is best known for its chain of high street, train station, airport, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, and entertainment products....
, a cobblers/dry cleaners and a tapas

Tapas

Tapas is the name of a wide variety of appetizers in Spanish cuisine. They may be cold or warm .In North America and the United Kingdom, tapas have evolved into an entire cuisine....
restaurant. The original Victorian station structures remaining on platform 1 have been refurbished and now serve as a second ticket office, toilets and waiting room with an exit to Station Approach and the station car park. The original platforms were linked by a subway which has since been abandoned.

The station is the location of a London Underground signal box at the eastern end of the platforms and, several hundred yards east of the station, the modern signal control centre for all c2c operations on the line .

Services

Upminster station is in Zone 6 and is managed by c2c. It is the easternmost station on the London Underground network and is located 16.6 miles (26.7 km) east north-east of Charing Cross

Charing Cross

Charing Cross denotes the junction of the Strand, London, Whitehall and Cockspur Street, just south of Trafalgar Square in City of Westminster within Central London, England....
and fifteen miles down line from Fenchurch Street.

The station is served by District Line

District Line

The District line is a line of the London Underground, coloured green on the Tube map. It is a "sub-surface" line, running through the central area in shallow cut-and-cover tunnels....
and also by c2c

C2c

c2c is a List of companies operating trains in the United Kingdom that provides train services on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway line from Fenchurch Street station in the City of London to East London, England along the entire length of the northern Thames Gateway area including Basildon, Chafford Hundred , Tilbury and Southend-on-...
and National Express East Anglia train services. The next station westbound on the District Line

District Line

Upminster Bridge tube station

Upminster Bridge Station is a London Underground station on the District Line at Upminster Bridge in the London Borough of Havering, East London, England....
. The station has seven platforms. Platforms 1a, 1 & 2 are served by c2c services. Platforms 3, 4 & 5 are served by the District Line and platform 6 is served by National Express East Anglia services.

The typical off-peak service frequency is:

6tph (trains per hour) to Fenchurch Street
Fenchurch Street railway station

Fenchurch Street is a railway station in the south eastern corner of the City of London close to the Tower of London and two miles east of Charing Cross....
(c2c)
6tph to Richmond
Richmond tube station

Richmond station is a London Underground and National Rail station, located in Richmond, London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London....
via Tower Hill (District Line)
6tph to Wimbledon
Wimbledon station

Wimbledon station is a National Rail, London Underground, and Tramlink station located in Wimbledon, London in the London Borough of Merton, and is the only London station that provides an interchange between rail, Underground, and Tramlink services....
via Tower Hill (District Line)
2tph to Romford
Romford railway station

Romford station is located in Romford, London Borough of Havering. It is situated between Chadwell Heath railway station and Gidea Park railway station....
via the Upminster-Romford branch line
Romford to Upminster Line

The Upminster Branch Line is a 3.4 mile branch line between Romford and Upminster in the London Borough of Havering. It forms Network Rail route EA 1040....
(National Express East Anglia)

4tph to Shoeburyness
Shoeburyness railway station

Shoeburyness is a railway station located in the small town of Shoeburyness in the borough and unitary district of Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England....
via Basildon (c2c)
2tph to Southend Central
Southend Central railway station

Southend Central is a railway station on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. Train services are provided by the National Express Group train operating company c2c....
via Ockendon (c2c)

Ticket office and ticketing

The Station has two Ticket Offices that are both operated by c2c. The main Office is located on the main road, and the second Office is located on the side road that leads to the station car park.

The station mostly uses the TRIBUTE

Tribute

A tribute is wealth one party gives to another as a sign of respect or, as was often case in historical contexts, of submission or allegiance....
issuing system, but in order to be able to retail the Transport for London Oyster Cards, there were still two APTIS

APTIS

APTIS is the Accountancy and Passenger Ticket Issuing System used on Rail transport in Great Britain until 2007.It was widely known as the All-Purpose Ticket-Issuing System, a description which was used during the development of the prototype devices....
machines in use until 23 March 2007, which coincidentally were the last remaining APTIS machines to be in service anywhere on the National Rail network. c2c is in the process of testing a new system called FasTIS

Cubic FasTIS

Cubic FasTIS is the latest TIS introduced to the UK National Rail Retailers. The prototype was piloted at Chiltern Railways High Wycombe station from April 2005, the second pilot machine was deployed at Banbury station....
which, like TRIBUTE, is fully computer-based but which is able to sell Oyster. The system has already been approved for use at other National Rail stations in the Travelcard zonal area where Oyster card provision is required (mostly joint National Rail/TfL locations such as Gunnersbury and Willesden Junction). If the c2c trial is successful, the system will be expanded across the c2c network.

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London Buses

London Buses is the subsidiary of Transport for London that manages bus services within Greater London, United Kingdom. Buses are required to carry similar red colour schemes and conform to the same fare scheme....
routes 55 , 248

London Buses route 248

London Buses route 248 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to East London ....
, 346, 347 and 370 serve the site of the station.