Bow Road railway station

Bow Road
Station building remains in 1961
Location	Bow
Owner	Great Eastern Railway
Number of platforms	2
Key dates
1 October 1876	Opened
4 April 1892	Re-sited
21 April 1941	Closed
9 December 1946	Re-opened
7 November 1949	Closed
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink

Bow Road is a closed railway station in Bow, east London, that was opened in 1876 on the Bow Curve branch line by the Great Eastern Railway (GER).

The station building was situated slightly west of a former North London Railway (NLR) station called Bow and near the current Bow Road Underground station and Bow Church DLR station.

Bow Road station was re-sited in 1892 to a site 3 miles 7 chains (5.0 km) down-line from Fenchurch Street. It was closed in 1949.

The line that the station was located on, called the Bow Curve, 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 south 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, and just two services called on Sundays 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.