Upton Park
Main entrance on Green Street
Upton Park Location of Upton Park in Greater London
Location	Upton Park
Local authority	London Borough of Newham
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019	9.71 million[1]
2020	6.68 million[2]
2021	4.78 million[3]
2022	7.69 million[4]
2023	8.49 million[5]
Key dates
1 September 1877	Opened by LT&SR
1902	District line started
15 June 1962	London–Southend withdrawn
Other information
External links	TfL station info page
Coordinates	51°32′06″N0°02′04″E / 51.535°N 0.0344°E /51.535; 0.0344
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Upton Park is aLondon Underground station onGreen Street in theUpton Park area of theLondon Borough of Newham, eastLondon. It is served by theDistrict andHammersmith & City lines betweenPlaistow andEast Ham stations. It is located inZone 3.

The station was opened by theLondon, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR) in 1877. District line service began in 1902, and the Hammersmith & City (at that time theMetropolitan line) followed in 1936. LTSR services were withdrawn in 1962. The station has two working platforms, one for each direction. Two other platforms used to serve the LTSR but are now disused.

Nowadays, the station servesQueens Road Market andGreen Street.

Upton Park was the first station on the LT&SR to be built by a property developer.^[6] Read was a developer who proposed the station and given approval designed and built a two platform station between the houses of Queen's Road and Harold Road. The station fronted Queen's Square on the corner of Green Street and Queen's Road opened in September 1877. The building was demolished in 1903/04 when the line was quadrupled and the present station was constructed.

Upton Park tube station appears in the English slang term, "He/She is Upton Park - two stops short of Barking", indicating that the individual in question is slightly mad.^[7]

The service frequency is 15 services per hour on the District line and 6 services per hour on the Hammersmith & City line.

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Plaistow towardsHammersmith		Hammersmith & City line		East Ham towardsBarking
Plaistow towardsWimbledon,Richmond orEaling Broadway		District line		East Ham towardsUpminster
Former services
Plaistow towardsHammersmith		Metropolitan line Hammersmith branch (1936–1990)		East Ham towardsBarking
Historical railways
Plaistow		British Rail Eastern Region London, Tilbury and Southend line		East Ham

London Buses routes58,104,330 and376 serve the station.^[8]

There are two ticket office windows, two touch screen ticket machines, and three of the more traditional coin-only button machines.

At present there are no lifts at the station for disabled access, nor are there plans to install any.

• The station previously served as the local station for theBoleyn Ground, the home ground ofWest Ham Unitedfootball club. However, this changed when in Summer 2016, West Ham United moved to theOlympic Stadium.

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  Side entrance
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  Eastbound platform looking east towardsUpminster
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  Ticket office
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  Station platform roundel

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• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Upton Park station, 1933

• Rail transport stations in London fare zone 3
• District line stations
• Hammersmith & City line stations
• Tube stations in the London Borough of Newham
• Former London, Tilbury and Southend Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1877

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