Bow Road railway station

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Note: This article title may be easily confused with Bow Road tube station.

Bow Road
Location
Place	Bow
History
Opened by	Great Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
Key dates	Opened 1892 Closed 1949
Replaced by	Bow Road LUL

Bow Road railway station was a former British Rail station in Bow, London. It was situated near to Bow Road tube station in East London, on the opposite side of Bow Road.

It opened in 1892 as a Great Eastern Railway station, between Burdett Road (also since closed) and Stratford. It was closed on 7 November 1949. Today the platforms and the station building remain on the east side of the railway viaduct in Bow Road. The short line it is situated on, between Gas Factory Junction on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and Bow Junction on the Great Eastern Main Line, has since been reduced to a single track and is used only for emergency diversions and stock moves.

Very close to Bow Road, to the east was Bow railway station on the North London Railway. That station and railway have been since replaced by Bow Church DLR station and the Docklands Light Railway.