Bromley-by-Bow tube station

Bromley-by-Bow station stands on the Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It serves the District and Hammersmith & City lines between Bow Road to the west and West Ham to the east. The station opened in 1858 on a new railway route from Fenchurch Street to Barking. In 1905 it was rebuilt to add electric District Railway tracks. The station was renamed Bromley-by-Bow in 1967 and now lies in London fare zones 2 and 3. The station’s history includes services from the Great Eastern Railway and North London Railway in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A second entrance at Devons Road opened soon after the 1894 rebuild. The Metropolitan line began calling at Bromley in 1936 to relieve overcrowding on the District line. A wartime bomb found nearby in 2008 disrupted services for a time. Step-free access was added in 2018 and the station building was modernised in 2019. Two operational platforms handle eastbound and westbound trains. The disused platforms of the old Fenchurch Street–Southend line lie to the south. The 1972 station building and footbridge use dark bricks similar to Victoria line stations. A glazed atrium was added in 2019 as part of the modernisation. The area around the station is served by London Buses routes 323, 488 and D8.