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Victoria Park & Bow railway station

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It appears Victoria Park & Bow station was little-used, as the ECR stopped few trains there. Study of Bradshaw's Railway Guide for March 1850 reveals the only ECR services out of the Bishopsgate terminus which called at the station were the 6:07 a.m. to
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on weekdays and the 1:37 p.m. to Norwich on Sundays. In the London-bound direction there were no weekday services whilst just two services called on Sunday at 1:05 p.m. and 9:28 p.m. As a result, LBER services mostly terminated at
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The LBER had hoped to run through to Stratford but its relationship with the ECR was poor and a junction allowing connection from the LBER's line to the ECR's was not constructed.
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By 1854 relations between the two companies had improved and the junction connecting the two lines was built and the LBER became part of the initial
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The nearest station to the site of the former Victoria Park & Bow station today is
210:, east London. It was located close to the present-day Bow Junction on what is now the 441: 388: 363: 338: 298: 322:(reprint (no date but c1990s) ed.). Teignmouth, Devon: P Kay. pp. 25–27. 472: 203: 167: 154: 207: 66: 261:(LTSR) route to Fenchurch Street (with the more direct route from 479:
Disused railway stations in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Location of Victoria Park & Bow in Greater London
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Victoria Park & Bow is located in Greater London
Bow
Grid reference
TQ373831
Eastern Counties Railway
Coordinates
51°31′49″N 0°01′19″W / 51.53016°N 0.02204°W / 51.53016; -0.02204
London transport portal
railway station
Bow
Great Eastern Main Line
Stratford
Bethnal Green
Eastern Counties Railway
London and Blackwall Extension Railway
Fenchurch Street
Bishopsgate
Norwich
Bow and Bromley
London, Tilbury and Southend Railway
Barking
Bow Church
Docklands Light railway
ISBN
0-901461-16-4
ISBN
1-901706-44-3
ISBN
0-947699-08-2
ISBN

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