Services
The station has three working platforms that are used by the District Line, one for each direction of travel and another for terminating trains from central London during peak times, that would otherwise terminate at Barking or Upminster. Typical off-peak service from the station is twelve trains an hour to Upminster and six trains each to Wimbledon and Richmond via Tower Hill.
The station serves the large Rhodia chemical plant and Eastbrookend Country Park to the east. North of the station is an industrial estate and the Victoria Road stadium. To the south is predominantly residential, including the historic Dagenham village.
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