Upton Park Station


Upton Park was the first station on the LT&SR (Tilbury and Southend Railway) to be built by a property developer, Read. A developer who proposed the station and given approval designed and constructed a two platform station between 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 expanded and the present station 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.