Coborn Road railway station

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Coborn Road was a railway station in Bow, east London, about 3.8 km from Liverpool Street on the Great Eastern Railway main line. It opened in 1865 as Old Ford, with two platforms and buildings on Coborn Road. It was renamed Coborn Road in 1879. In 1883 the line was expanded and a second platform area was added, and the station’s name became Coborn Road for Old Ford. The station had entrances on Coborn Road and Grove Road. It was closed in 1916 as part of wartime cutbacks but reopened in 1919. After 1923 it was run by the London and North Eastern Railway. In 1944 a V-1 bomb damaged the nearby Grove Road bridge, but service returned within 36 hours. The station closed for good on 8 December 1946 after the Central Line to Stratford opened a few days earlier, creating a duplicate route, and it was later demolished; the signal box closed in 1949. By 2016 only faint traces remained, and the area is now served by Mile End Underground and Bow Church DLR.