Becontree (London Underground)

Station building

Becontree is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 5 on Gale Street. In 2014, 3.40 million passengers used this station served by the District Line .

It was opened in 1926 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway , at that time still under the provisional name of Gale Street Halt . From September 12, 1932, after the electrification of the line between Barking and Upminster , trains of the District Line also ran here. The railway has not stopped in Becontree since 1962, and the second platform has remained unused since then.

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ COUNTS - 2014 - annual entries & exits. (PDF, 44 kB) (No longer available online.) Transport for London, 2015, archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; accessed on December 29, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ District Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 4, 2013 . 

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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 25 ″  N , 0 ° 7 ′ 37 ″  E