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Address: Station Parade, Barking IG11 8TU
Opened: 13 April 1854
Station Code: BAG
Fare Zone: 4

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London Underground Line(s) Served:

District Line
Hammersmith & City Line

Service Pattern(s):

District Line:
12 trains per hour to Upminster
6 trains per hour to Ealing Broadway
6 trains per hour to Richmond

Hammersmith & City Line:
6 trains per hour to Hammersmith

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Interchange(s)

National Rail, London Overground Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside

Station History

Barking station was opened by the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway on their new line to Tilbury on 13 April 1854. Following the construction of two further new lines by the LT&SR, the station was extensively rebuilt in 1889.

9 July 1894 saw the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway (a joint enterprise between the Midland Railway and the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway), open their line which connected to the existing LTSR line at Woodgrange Park. From opening, the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway services (operated by the Midland Railway) ran through to Barking and beyond.

Services operated by the District Railway arrived at Barking in 1902, however these were withdrawn in 1905 when electrification of the line was paused at East Ham. Barking did not regain its District Line service until the continuation of the electrification arrived in 1908. Further electrification saw the District Line service extended to Upminster in 1932, closely followed by the arrival of Metropolitan Line services in 1936.

Following the nationalisation of British Railways in 1948, the station came under the ownership of the Eastern Region. Architects H.H. Powell and John Ward were charged with designing a new booking hall for the station and construction began in 1959 with the station being reopened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1961.

The Station booking hall was granted Grade II listed status by English Heritage (now Historic England) on 24th November 1995.

Barking is the second busiest Underground station outside of Zones 1 and 2.

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Address: Aldersgate St, London
EC1A 4JA
Opened: 23rd December 1865
Station Code: BAB
Fare Zone: 1

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London Underground Line(s) Served:

Circle Line
Hammersmith & City Line
Metropolitan Line

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Service Pattern(s):

Circle Line
6 trains Per Hour clockwise to Edgware Road
6 Trains Per Hour anti-clockwise to Hammersmith

Hammersmith & City Line
6 Trains Per Hour eastbound to Barking
6 Trains Per Hour westbound to Hammersmith

Metropolitan Line
12 trains per hour eastbound to Aldgate
2 trains per hour westbound to Amersham (all stations)
2 trains per hour westbound to Chesham (all stations)
8 trains per hour westbound to Uxbridge (all stations)

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Interchange(s)

None

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Station History

Aldersgate Street Station was opened by the Metropolitan Railway on their extension from Farringdon to Moorgate on 23rd December 1865.

Becoming a victim of its own success, the Metropolitan Railway constructed another pair of tracks between King’s Cross and Moorgate known as the City Widened Lines to allow other railway companies to access the area without interrupting the passenger service.

The new lines opened, with the first trains run by the Great Northern Railway in 1868, followed by the Midland Railway.

The station name was simplified on 1st November 1910 when the station became Aldersgate, before being renamed to Aldersgate and Barbican Station on 24th October 1924.

Following the creation of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933, the Metropolitan Railway was absorbed by the new entity, becoming the Metropolitan Line. Mainline rail services remained under the ownership of their existing companies.

During World War II, the station and its surrounding area suffered severe bomb damage during German air raids, including one in December 1940 that caused most of the building above the station to collapse. This also caused a blockage of the line and severe disruption to train services.

The remains of the bomb-damaged building were removed and, in 1955 the remainder of the street-level building accessing the station was demolished.

As part of the planning for the Barbican Estate, 500 metres of the Metropolitan Line was relaid in tunnels between the station and Moorgate between 1963 and 1965.

The station was renamed for the final time on 1st December 1968 when to better fit the surrounding area, it was simplified to Barbican station.

Having passed to British Railways in 1948 and continued through privatisation, the final mainline rail services through the station ran in March 2009 when, as part of the Thameslink Programme, the line was severed at Farringdon to allow the platforms there to be lengthened.

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