Plaistow station is a London Underground station on the District and Hammersmith and City lines, in Plaistow in the London Borough of Newham, east London. It is in Zone 3.
The station was opened by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway in 1858, and District Line service began in 1902; the Hammersmith & City Line (then the Metropolitan Line) service followed in 1936, when it was extended from Whitechapel to Barking. LTSR services were withdrawn in 1962, although the LTSR motif can still be seen within aspects of the station's architecture.
The station has three platforms in use, two through platforms and a third bay platform enabling eastbound trains to terminate and reverse back to central London. Two other platforms used to serve the LTSR line but are now closed and derelict; c2c trains pass through non-stop. Plaistow used to have sidings on the north side of the line, but the site is now occupied by a Dagenham Motors car showroom.
The station booking hall, built in 1905, is a the subject of a local listing which, while not conferring any additional planning controls on a building under current legislation, encourages the proper consideration of a building’s architectural or historic interest(s) in the exercise of normal planning controls.
Although there is no station car park, there is a Newham London Borough Council-run pay and display car park to the immediate south, connected by a set of steps.
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“Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Say first, of God above, or Man below,
What can we reason, but from what we know?
Of Man what see we, but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?
Thro’ worlds unnumber’d tho’ the God be known,
‘Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
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—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)