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  Hackney Wick Location of Hackney Wick in Greater London | |
| Location | Hackney Wick |
| Local authority | London Borough of Hackney |
| Managed by | London Overground |
| Owner | |
| Station code | HKW |
| DfT category | E |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Accessible | Yes[1] |
| Fare zone | 2 |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2020–21 |  0.950 million[2] |
| – interchange | 457[2] |
| 2021–22 |  2.341 million[2] |
| – interchange | 649[2] |
| 2022–23 | 3.082 million[2] |
| – interchange | 1,629[2] |
| 2023–24 | 4.180 million[2] |
| – interchange | 5,371[2] |
| 2024–25 | 4.211 million[2] |
| – interchange | 1[2] |
| Key dates | |
| 12 May 1980 | Opened |
| 2017 | Remodelled |
| Other information | |
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| Coordinates | 51°32′36″N0°01′28″W / 51.543417°N 0.024389°W /51.543417; -0.024389 |
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Hackney Wick is a station on theMildmay line of theLondon Overground, located in the district ofHackney Wick,East London. Situated inLondon fare zone 2, the station was opened on 12 May 1980 byBritish Rail as part of theCrosstown Linkline service betweenNorth Woolwich andCamden Road stations. Between Spring 2017 and May 2018, the station was rebuilt and modernised, including replacement of the footbridge by a subway. The new subway links the two platforms as well as providing a cycle and pedestrian link betweenHackney andTower Hamlets.
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The station opened on 12 May 1980 byBritish Rail as part of theCrosstown Linkline service.[3] The area had been served byVictoria Park railway station, a short distance to the west, on the Broad Street–Poplar branch of theNorth London Railway from 1856 to 1943.
As part of the programme to introduce four-car trains on the London Overground network, theNorth London line betweenGospel Oak andStratford closed in February 2010; reopening 1 June 2010. This was to enable the installation of a new signalling system and the extension of 30 platforms. Engineering work continued to June 2011, during which reduced services operated and Sunday services were suspended.[4]
The typical service at the station is 4 trains per hour westbound toRichmond viaHackney Central,Highbury & Islington,Camden Road andWillesden Junction, 2 trains per hour to Clapham Junction, and 6 trains per hour eastbound toStratford.[5]
Until 9 December 2006, when the line from Stratford toNorth Woolwich was closed to be converted to aDocklands Light Railway line, the eastbound service ran to North Woolwich calling at Stratford,West Ham,Canning Town,Custom House andSilvertown & London City Airport.
Hackney Wick station was a key transport point for the2012 Summer Olympics as it is situated 100 m (330 ft) from the western periphery of theOlympic Park. However, due to potential overcrowding, TfL announced that westbound trains would not stop at this station for the duration of the Games.[6]
Hackney Wick is one of four stations located around the park, along withStratford,Stratford International andPudding Mill Lane.
As part of theLondon 2012 Olympic legacy Wendy Hardie and Adam Brown undertook an art architecture collaboration to "refine the architecture and to make it more place specific and sensitive to its creative context".[7] The local historical industries provided inspiration, notably innovation in chemistry,Hackney Cut canal andLee Navigation. The result opened in mid 2018 with a number of notable elements. These include a wall formed of a continuous chain of extruded glass hexagons representing molecular structure of chemical compounds that were invented inHackney Wick including the world's first plastic,Cellulose nitrate (patented asParkesine[8]). The glass wall is supported by weathered steel hexagon shoes that are inspired by the rusty sheet piled retaining walls and hand mechanised lock gates found along the nearby waterways. In addition the concrete also depicts chemical compounds usingdebossed abstracted notations representingPetroleum,Cellulose nitrate andShellac as well asMeldola blue andPrimuline which were important compounds of thedye industry.
At 00:54 on 21 March 2019, two men were fatally electrocuted after climbing a wagon of a freight train stopped adjacent to Hackney Wick station.[9][10] A coroner's report found that the men used a hole in a chain link fence to access the railway, and that fences in the area of the incident had not been inspected since 2016. The report also identified a number of failures in Network Rail's inspection regime.[11][12]
Hackney Wick currently has the following services on theMildmay line of theLondon Overground, which are operated byClass 378 Capitalstar trainsets in off-peak.
London Buses routes 276 and 488 serves the station withLondon Buses route 339 serving the station indirectly on White Post Lane.[14]
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