Gidea Park railway station
Gidea Park 
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Gidea Park railway station in 2007
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 Gidea Park
Location of Gidea Park in Greater London
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| Location | Gidea Park |
| Local authority | London Borough of Havering |
| Managed by | TfL Rail |
| Station code | GDP |
| DfT category | C2 |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Fare zone | 6 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2011–12 |
 2.524 million |
| 2012–13 |
2.587 million |
| 2013–14 |
2.811 million |
| 2014–15 |
2.945 million |
| 2015–16 |
 2.861 million |
| Key dates | |
| 1910 | Opened as Squirrels Heath & Gidea Park |
| 1913 | Renamed Gidea Park & Squirrels Heath |
| 20 Feb. 1969 | Renamed Gidea Park |
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| WGS84 | 51°34′55″N 0°12′23″E / 51.582°N 0.2063°ECoordinates: 51°34′55″N 0°12′23″E / 51.582°N 0.2063°E |
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 Footage of the aftermath of the 1947 crash at Gidea Park - British Pathé |
Gidea Park railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line, serving the neighbourhood of Gidea Park in the London Borough of Havering, east London. It is 13 miles 41 chains (21.7 km) down-line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Romford and Harold Wood. Its three-letter station code is GDP and it is in Travelcard zone 6.
The station is currently managed by TfL Rail. The vast majority of services call at Gidea Park as part of the Shenfield-Liverpool Street stopping "metro" service, but limited Abellio Greater Anglia services for Southend Victoria also call on Sundays. From 2019, Gidea Park will be fully served by Crossrail, linking it directly to additional stations in central London as well as Reading and London Heathrow Airport. TfL Rail, the precursor of Crossrail, took over the running of the Shenfield "metro" in May 2015.
The station was opened as Squirrels Heath & Gidea Park on 1 December 1910 by the Great Eastern Railway on the company's main line from London Liverpool Street. The name was switched to Gidea Park & Squirrels Heath in late 1913, but the "Squirrels Heath" suffix was dropped some time later.
On the evening of 2 January 1947, an express Liverpool Street-Peterborough train over-ran a signal at 'danger' in dense fog and collided with a Liverpool Street-Southend Victoria train as it started to depart from Gidea Park. Seven people were killed in the crash and 45 were hospitalised.
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