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Harold Wood railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line in east London, serving the Harold Wood area of Romford in the London Borough of Havering. It is 14 miles 76 chains (24.1 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Gidea Park and Brentwood. Its three-letter station code is HRO and it is in Travelcard zone 6.

Harold Wood
Harold Wood railway station in 2020
Harold Wood Location of Harold Wood in Greater London
Location	Harold Wood
Local authority	London Borough of Havering
Managed by	Elizabeth line
Station code	HRO
DfT category	C2
Number of platforms	4
Accessible	Yes[1]
Fare zone	6
National Rail annual entry and exit
2016–17	2.973 million[2]
2017–18	2.930 million[2]
2018–19	3.089 million[2]
2019–20	3.064 million[2]
2020–21	0.964 million[2]
Key dates
1 December 1868	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51.5928°N 0.2343°E / 51.5928; 0.2343
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The station is currently managed by Transport for London and is served by the Shenfield – Liverpool Street stopping service as part of the Elizabeth line. Eventually, the Elizabeth line service will be extended beyond Liverpool Street to Paddington and onwards to Reading and Heathrow Airport.

History

Harold Wood station was opened on 1 December 1868 by the Great Eastern Railway on its main line from Bishopsgate in London to the east of England and consisted of two staggered platforms of wooden construction, the down platform accessed from Station Road and the up platform from Oak Road. Goods facilities consisted of two sidings on the north side of the line opposite the up platform, and there was also a long siding serving a brickworks. A signal box was provided at the up end of the down platform controlling the signals, access to the goods facilities, and a trailing crossover.[3]

Two additional tracks were built in 1934 under London and North Eastern Railway ownership (the original tracks are normally used today by express services which do not call at Harold Wood). At this time the current station building was constructed on the overbridge at Gubbins Lane, and new platforms of precast concrete construction located slightly further east nearer to the new station building. The signal box was removed as part of these works, with control of the new colour light signals shared between Gidea Park and Brentwood.[3]

Services

The typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service from the station is eight trains per hour to Shenfield and eight to London Liverpool Street. On Sundays this reduces to six in each direction.

Operator	Route	Rolling stock	Frequency
Elizabeth line	London Liverpool Street – Stratford – Maryland – Forest Gate – Manor Park – Ilford – Seven Kings – Goodmayes – Chadwell Heath – Romford – Gidea Park – Harold Wood – Brentwood – Shenfield	Class 315, Class 345	8x per hour, 4x per hour on Sundays

Preceding station	Elizabeth line			Following station
Gidea Park towards Liverpool Street		Elizabeth line		Brentwood towards Shenfield
Future development
Gidea Park towards Reading or Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 or Terminal 5		Elizabeth line		Brentwood towards Shenfield

Connections

London Buses routes 256, 294, 347, 496, 497, 646 and 656 serve the station.

References

External links

• Train times and station information for Harold Wood railway station from National Rail
• Excel file displaying National Rail station usage information for 2005/06 Archived 22 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine

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