Chadwell Heath station is on the Great Eastern Main Line in Chadwell Heath, which straddles the London Borough of Redbridge and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in east London. It is 9 miles 79 chains (16.1 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Goodmayes and Romford. Its three-letter station code is CTH and it is in Travelcard Zone 5.[3]
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Location | Chadwell Heath |
Local authority | London Borough of Redbridge |
Managed by | Elizabeth line |
Station code | CTH |
DfT category | C2 |
Number of platforms | 4 |
Accessible | Yes[1] |
Fare zone | 5 |
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11 January 1864 | Opened |
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WGS84 | 51.5678°N 0.1292°E / 51.5678; 0.1292 |
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The station was opened in 1864 by the Eastern Counties Railway. It is currently managed by Transport for London and is on the Elizabeth line between Shenfield and London Paddington.
Chadwell Heath station was opened on 11 January 1864 and is built on the site of Wangey House, one of Dagenham's oldest buildings dating back to 1250. Wangey House was partly demolished when the Eastern Counties Railway built the line in the 1830s; the last surviving portion was demolished when the Great Eastern Railway widened the line in 1901.[citation needed]
Chadwell Heath was the focus for the housing estate temporary railway built for the construction of the Becontree estate in the period 1926–33.
The typical Monday-Friday peak is 11 trains per hour off peak is 7. Saturday off-peak service is 7 trains per hour in each direction between Liverpool Street and Shenfield, reduced on Sundays to 6 per hour in each direction:[4]
Operator | Route | Rolling stock | Frequency |
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Elizabeth line | Paddington – Bond Street – Tottenham Court Road – Farringdon – Liverpool Street – Whitechapel – Stratford – Maryland – Forest Gate – Manor Park – Ilford – Seven Kings – Goodmayes – Chadwell Heath – Romford – Gidea Park – Harold Wood – Brentwood – Shenfield | Class 345 | 8x per hour |
In June 2017 new Class 345 trains began entering service in preparation for the opening of Crossrail. The four platforms at Chadwell Heath will be extended from their current length of 184 metres (201 yd) to accommodate the Crossrail trains which will be over 200 metres (220 yd) long once extended to nine carriages. New lifts, signage, help points, customer information screens and CCTV will also be installed. Additionally, a new passing loop for freight traffic will be constructed to the west of the station, to replace the disused loop further up the line at Manor Park.[5][may be outdated as of May 2022]
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Goodmayes | Elizabeth line | Romford towards Shenfield |
London Buses routes 62 and 368 serve the station.[6]
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