Romford railway station

The first Romford station, located to the west of Waterloo Road, opened on 20 June 1839 as the eastern terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway from Mile End. Both stations acted as temporary termini, with the line extending east to Brentwood and west to Shoreditch in 1840. In 1844, the station was relocated to its current position, some 400m east of the original and at about this time, the gauge of the ECR was changed from 5' (1,524 mm) to standard gauge of 4 ft 8 1⁄2 (1,435 mm). On 7 June 1893 the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway opened a second station in Romford, on a branch line to Upminster. The two stations were combined in 1934.

In May 2015 the Upminster branch Iine transferred from Abellio Greater Anglia to London Overground and the regular Shenfield "metro" service transferred to TfL Rail.[3][4]

• On 29 December 1944, one person was killed and three were injured when, in darkness and heavy fog, a Chelmsford-London service passed two signals at danger on the approach to Romford and ran into the rear of a stationary freight train. The passenger train's speed at the moment of impact was about 15 mph. One crew member on the goods train was killed instantly. The Chelmsford train driver was held responsible for the collision in a Ministry of War Transport report.[5]
• On 4 February 2010, two people standing on the platforms at Romford were injured when a quantity of stone ballast was shed from a freight train passing through the station. Subsequent examination found that the train wagon's doors had not been properly closed when it departed from the goods yard at Acton, west London, bound for Ipswich.[6]

The majority of services are currently operated by TfL Rail which runs the stopping "metro" route between Liverpool Street and Shenfield. Greater Anglia also operates medium-distance services between Liverpool Street and destinations in the East of England, while London Overground runs the half-hourly "push and pull" service between Romford and Upminster.

The typical off-peak Monday to Saturday service from Romford is:[7]

• 8 trains per hour (tph) to London Liverpool Street, of which:
  • 6 call at all stations (TfL Rail),
  • 2 call at Stratford and Liverpool Street (Greater Anglia);
• 6 tph to Shenfield, calling at all stations (TfL Rail);
• 2 tph to Upminster, calling at all stations (London Overground);
• 1 tph to Southend Victoria calling at Shenfield then all stations (Greater Anglia);
• 1 tph to Colchester Town calling at Shenfield, Chelmsford, Witham, then all stations (Greater Anglia).

In 2017 new Class 345 trains began entering service as Crossrail partially opened. Platforms 2 to 5 will be extended from their current length of between 179 metres (196 yd) and 182 metres (199 yd) to accommodate the Crossrail trains which will be over 200 metres (220 yd) long once extended to nine carriages. New lifts, signage, help points, customer information screens and CCTV will also be installed.[8]

London Buses routes 5, 66, 86, 103, 128, 165, 174, 175, 193, 247, 248, 252, 294, 296, 347, 365, 370, 375, 496, 498, 499, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 674 and 686 and night routes N15 and N86 and LSP route 575 all serve the station.

• Media related to Romford railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Train times and station information for Romford railway station from National Rail
• Excel file displaying National Rail station usage information for 2005/06
• Old LTSR entrance after conversion

Preceding station		Crossrail		Following station
Chadwell Heath towards Liverpool Street		TfL Rail Shenfield Metro		Gidea Park towards Shenfield
Preceding station		London Overground		Following station
Terminus		Romford to Upminster Line		Emerson Park towards Upminster
	National Rail
Stratford		Greater Anglia Great Eastern Main Line		Shenfield
	Future development
Preceding station		Crossrail		Following station
Chadwell Heath towards Paddington		Crossrail Elizabeth line		Gidea Park towards Shenfield
Historical railways
	National Rail
Stratford		Anglia Railways London Crosslink		Ingatestone
	Abandoned works
Crowlands		Great Eastern Railway Great Eastern Main Line		Gidea Park