Emerson Park railway station
Emerson Park 
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Emerson Park railway station in 2008
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 Emerson Park
Location of Emerson Park in Greater London
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| Location | Emerson Park |
| Local authority | London Borough of Havering |
| Managed by | London Overground |
| Station code | EMP |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Fare zone | 6 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
 94,746 |
| 2012–13 |
0.114 million |
| 2013–14 |
0.127 million |
| 2014–15 |
0.156 million |
| 2015–16 |
0.260 million |
| Key dates | |
| 1 October 1909 | Opened |
| Other information | |
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| WGS84 | 51°34′07″N 0°13′13″E / 51.5687°N 0.2204°ECoordinates: 51°34′07″N 0°13′13″E / 51.5687°N 0.2204°E |
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Emerson Park is a London Overground station serving the Emerson Park neighbourhood of the London Borough of Havering in north-east London. The station is on the Romford to Upminster Line and is the only intermediate station on that single-track line, 1 mile 64 chains (2.9 km) down-line from Romford. The station was opened as Emerson Park Halt in 1909 by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway on a branch line which had connected Romford with Upminster and Grays since 1893.
The station has been managed by London Overground since May 2015, which also operates the train services. Emerson Park has no station buildings other than a platform canopy over the single platform. It has relatively low but fast-growing patronage for a suburban railway station, with 260,000 passenger entries/exits in 2015/16, compared to 82,000 five years prior and just 32,000 ten years prior.
The Romford to Upminster Line was constructed in 1893 as a branch of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR). Property development in the immediate area and in 1908 the proposed new railway station at Gidea Park, which opened in 1910, on the Great Eastern Railway (GER) prompted the LT&SR to construct a station on their branch. The station was opened on 1 October 1909 as Emerson Park Halt on the branch line from Romford to Grays via Upminster, where it connected with the main route from London Fenchurch Street. A run round loop was constructed 500 yards to the west to enable extra trains to run between Emerson Park and Upminster. When push-pull working began in 1934 the loop was not needed and taken out c. 1936. Originally named Emerson Park Halt, and shown in some timetables and on some signage throughout its history as Emerson Park & Great Nelmes, the station name was later simplified to Emerson Park, but the date of this change is not recorded. Even though the station has long been called Emerson Park, one former platform sign installed by National Express East Anglia in the late 2000s read: "Welcome to Emerson Park Halt".
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