The Anonymous Widower

Through Barking To Barking Riverside

The excellent maps from carto metro now show full details of the route of the Barking Riverside Extension of the Gospel Oak to Barking Line.

This map shows the tracks going through Barking station.

Note.

1. The District Line is shown in green.
2. The Hammersmith & City Line is shown in mauve.
3. The London Overground is shown in orange.
4. Where lines are shared, they are shown dotted in both colours.
5. The two tracks going North West are the Gospel Oak to Barking Line to the West.
6. There is a flyover linking these two tracks to Platforms 7 and 8 on the South side of the station.

All Overground trains currently terminate in Platform 1, which is the Northernmost of the seven platforms.

After services to Barking Riverside start, some or all of the services will use the flyover and share Platforms 7 and 8 with c2c’s half-hourly service between Fenchurch Street and Grays.

• Platform 7 will handle c2c services to Grays and Overground services to Barking Riverside.
• Platform 8 will handle c2c services to Fenchurch Street and Overground services to Gospel Oak.

Passengers who need to reverse direction to perhaps go from Barking Riverside to Purfleet would just walk across the island platform shared by Platforms 7 and 8.

This second map shows the tracks to the East of Barking station.

Note.

1. The Overground tracks sit between the existing lines.
2. If Renwick Road station is added to the extension, will it have an island platform between the tracks?

This third map shows the route to Barking Riverside station.

Note.

1. Barking Riverside station is a two-platform station.
2. There is a crossover outside the station to allow both platforms to be used to terminate trains.

Strictly speaking to handle the four trains per hour (tph) that are likely to use the station, one platform could be enough, but it looks like the station has been designed for extension across the river to Abbey Wood and Thamesmead.

September 2, 2021 - Posted by AnonW | Design, Transport/Travel | Barking Riverside, Barking Station, Gospel Oak And Barking Line, Renwick Road Station