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Bow Road is a closed railway station in Bow, east London, that was opened in 1876 and operated by the Great Eastern Railway (GER). The station building was situated slightly west of a former North London Railway (NLR) station called Bow and close to the current Bow Road tube station on the London Underground and Bow Church DLR station on the Docklands Light Railway. Bow Road railway station was re-sited in 1892 and closed in 1949. ==Original station on the site== The line that the station was located on was opened by the London and Blackwell Extension Railway (LBER) on 2 April 1849. This line served the first station on the site, named Bow and Bromley and located north of Bow Road itself, on a viaduct. Trains would, if there was a connecting service, run on to an interchange station called Victoria Park and Bow, otherwise services terminated at Bow and Bromley. The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) was not particularly co-operative in stopping many of their services at Victoria Park and Bow and in the March 1850 Bradshaw's Guide the only ECR services to call at Victoria Park and Bow were the 6:07 a.m. to Norwich on weekdays and the 1:37 p.m. to Norwich on Sundays. In the London-bound direction there were no weekday services at all whilst two services called on Sunday at 1:05 and 9:28 p.m. The original intention had been to build a junction with the ECR main line between Bishopsgate and Stratford stations and run through-trains from Fenchurch Street.〔At this date the only other intermediate station existing between Bishopsgate and Stratford was Mile End railway station (London).〕 The relationship between the two railway companies was poor at this time so the junction was not built and services on the newly opened branch lasted until 26 September 1850 when the original station was closed. The relationship gradually improved and in 1854 the junction between the two lines was built and the LBER became part of the initial London Tilbury and Southend (LTSR) route to Fenchurch Street (with the more direct route from Barking opening in 1858). 〔 The LBER and ECR were partners in the LTSR〕 By the 1860s the railways in East Anglia were in financial trouble, and most were leased to the ECR; they wished to amalgamate formally, but could not obtain government agreement for this until 1862, when the Great Eastern Railway (GER) was formed by amalgamation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bow Road railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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