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Wanstead Park is a railway station in Forest Gate, London. It is on the Gospel Oak to Barking line in Zone 3, 11 miles 11 chains (17.9 km) down the line from Gospel Oak and situated between Leytonstone High Road and Woodgrange Park. It is operated by London Overground.

Wanstead Park
The station entrance in 2008
Wanstead Park Location of Wanstead Park in Greater London
Location	Forest Gate
Local authority	London Borough of Newham
Managed by	London Overground
Owner	Network Rail
Station code	WNP
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	3
OSI	Forest Gate [1]
National Rail annual entry and exit
2016–17	0.213 million[2]
2017–18	0.563 million[2]
– interchange	9,494[2]
2018–19	0.887 million[2]
– interchange	9,221[2]
2019–20	0.770 million[2]
– interchange	12,234[2]
2020–21	0.517 million[2]
– interchange	8,004[2]
Key dates
9 July 1894	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51.5518°N 0.0264°E / 51.5518; 0.0264
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Despite its name, Wanstead Park Station is not situated in Wanstead but in Forest Gate – and it is not near Wanstead Park but Wanstead Flats. The station was opened 9 July 1894.

The station is 360 yards (330 m) from Forest Gate station, according to TfL's journey planner, and this interchange is suggested in the National Rail Timetable.[3]

v t e London Overground
Cheshunt Theobalds Grove Enfield Town Turkey Street Romford Bush Hill Park Southbury Emerson Park Upminster Edmonton Green Silver Street Chingford White Hart Lane Highams Park Watford Junction Bruce Grove Wood Street Watford Seven Sisters Walthamstow Central High Street () Harringay Blackhorse Road Walthamstow Queen's Road Bushey Green Lanes Carpenders Park Crouch Hill South Tottenham St. James Leyton Midland Road Hatch End Upper Holloway () Stamford Hill Street Leytonstone Headstone Lane Stoke Newington Clapton High Road Harrow & Kentish Town West Rectory Road Wanstead Park () Wealdstone Gospel Oak Camden Road () Hackney Woodgrange Park Kenton () () Caledonian Road Canonbury Downs Barking South Kenton & Barnsbury Barking Riverside () North Highbury & Islington Dalston Kingsland Hackney Central Wembley Hampstead Heath Dalston Wembley Finchley Road & Frognal () Junction London Fields Central West Hampstead ( ) Haggerston Cambridge Heath Stonebridge Brondesbury Hoxton Homerton Park Brondesbury Park Shoreditch High Street Bethnal Green Hackney Wick Harlesden Kensal Rise Stratford Kensal Green Liverpool Whitechapel Willesden Queen's Park Street Shadwell () Junction Kilburn High Road Wapping South Hampstead () Rotherhithe Shepherd's Bush () Euston () Canada Water Kensington (Olympia) Surrey Quays West Brompton Battersea Park Imperial Wharf () (limited service) New Cross Clapham Queens Road Peckham New Cross Gate Junction Peckham Rye Brockley Acton Central Wandsworth Road Denmark Hill Honor Oak Park South Acton () Clapham High Street Forest Hill Gunnersbury Sydenham Kew Gardens Richmond Crystal Palace Penge West Anerley Norwood Junction West Croydon ()
Legend
Station National Rail Accessible station Thameslink Interchange station Elizabeth line Accessible interchange Docklands Light Railway London Underground Internal interchange London Trams Out-of-station interchange London River Services

Service

Predominantly during weekdays there is a quarter-hourly service of trains to the station (4tph each way). The line and rail tracks are also used for freight trains passing through. The line was electrified in 2016-7 – whilst the working was underway (from 6 June 2016 until February 2017), trains were replaced by buses between Barking & South Tottenham (until 23 September 2016) and then through to Gospel Oak thereafter.[4]

Connections

London Buses routes 58, 308 and 330 serve the station.[5]

Gallery

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  Platforms looking west
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  Platforms looking east
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  Temporary signage (as of August 2008)

References

External links

• Train times and station information for Wanstead Park railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	London Overground			Following station
Leytonstone High Road towards Gospel Oak		Gospel Oak to Barking line		Woodgrange Park towards Barking Riverside
Disused railways
Leytonstone High Road		Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway		Woodgrange Park

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