Lea Bridge railway station
Lea Bridge 
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Lea Bridge Station on day of opening, 16 May 2016
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 Lea Bridge
Location of Lea Bridge in Greater London
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| Location | Leyton/Lea Bridge |
| Local authority | London Borough of Waltham Forest |
| Grid reference | TQ362872 |
| Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
| Owner | Network Rail |
| Station code | LEB |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Fare zone | 3 |
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| 15 September 1840 | Opened as Lea Bridge Road by the Northern and Eastern Railway |
| 1841 | Renamed to Lea Bridge |
| 8 July 1985 | Closed |
| 15 May 2016 | Reopened |
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| WGS84 | 51°33′59″N 0°02′12″W / 51.5665°N 0.0366°WCoordinates: 51°33′59″N 0°02′12″W / 51.5665°N 0.0366°W |
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Lea Bridge is a railway station on the line between Stratford and Tottenham Hale on the Lea Valley Lines, which reopened on the evening of 15 May 2016 with the full service beginning on 16 May 2016, operated by Abellio Greater Anglia.
The station is located on Argall Way, close to its junction with Lea Bridge Road (A104) and Orient Way, serving the areas of Lea Bridge and Leyton in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, north-east London. The original station operated from 1840 to 1985 and was accessed via the north side of Lea Bridge Road as it crosses the tracks.
The station was opened on 15 September 1840 by the Northern and Eastern Railway as Lea Bridge Road and is thought to be the earliest example of a station having its building on a road bridge, with staircases down to the platforms. The original station building was an attractive Italianate style structure designed by Sancton Wood (1815-1886) and featured a bell turret on the roof with a bell that was rung when a train was due. The line was initially laid to a gauge of 5 ft (1,524 mm) but already this had been identified as non-standard, and between 5 September and 7 October 1844 the whole network was re-laid to 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge.
The Northern and Eastern Railway was leased by the Eastern Counties Railway, which operated the station. The ECR became part of the Great Eastern Railway (GER) in 1862. The GER established its signal works (which included a dummy signal box) on the eastern side of the line; the works were demolished in 1939 and replaced by a parcels depot. To the south of the station were the large Temple Mills marshalling yards, and the station would have seen large numbers of goods trains passing. In 1870 a line was opened to Shern Hall Street station (a temporary station located west of the present-day Wood Street station) and a shuttle service operated between Lea Bridge and Shern Hall Street, commencing traffic on 24 April 1870. Prior to this, a horse bus operating between Walthamstow and Lea Bridge had met all trains arriving at the station. The station was renamed Lea Bridge in 1841.
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