Gospel Oak to Barking line

The Gospel Oak to Barking line (sometimes unofficially called the GOBLIN)[4] is part of the Network Rail network of railway lines. It is 13 miles 58 chains (22.1 km) in length from one terminus to the other and carries both through goods trains and London Overground passenger trains, connecting Gospel Oak station in north London and Barking station in east London. The line is part of Network Rail Strategic Route 6, and is classified as a London and South East Commuter line.[5]

Gospel Oak to Barking line
Overview
TypeSuburban rail and goods
SystemNational Rail
StatusOperational
LocaleGreater London
TerminiGospel Oak
Barking
Stations12
Services1
Operation
OwnerNetwork Rail
Operator(s)London Overground
Rolling stockClass 710 "Aventra"
Technical
Line length13 miles 58 chains (22.1 km)
Number of tracks2
Track gauge4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
ElectrificationSeries 2 25 kV AC OHLE
Route map

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Gospel Oak to Barking line
North London line
to Richmond
Midland Main Line
via Leicester
 Gospel Oak
North London line
to Stratford
Low
Level
│
High
Level
Highgate Road
Midland Main Line
to St Pancras
Junction Road
Archway
Northern line
 Upper Holloway
 Hornsey Road
 Crouch Hill
Edgware, Highgate
& London Railway
Great Northern Route
Manor House
Piccadilly line
 Harringay Green Lanes
Victoria line
 St Ann's Road
Seven Sisters
Lea Valley lines (7 Sisters branch)
 South Tottenham
Victoria line
Tottenham Hale
Lea Valley lines (Temple Mills branch)
River Lea
 Blackhorse Road
Walthamstow Central
Lea Valley lines (Chingford branch)
 Walthamstow Queen's Rd
 Leyton Midland Road
A12 road
Central line
 Leytonstone High Road
 Wanstead Park
Forest Gate
Great Eastern Main Line
Woodgrange Park
High Speed 1
London, Tilbury & Southend Rly
to Fenchurch Street
District and H & City lines
to Aldgate East
East Ham
East Ham Depot
North Circular Road
River Roding
Barking Station Junction
 Barking
Barking sidings
District line to Upminster
LT&S Rly to Southend via Upminster
Barking Freightliner Terminal
London, Tilbury & Southend Rly
to Southend via Rainham
 Renwick Road
(proposed)
 Barking Riverside
(under construction)
River Thames
 Thamesmead
(proposed)
Crossrail (under construction)
North Kent Line
 Abbey Wood
North Kent Line
[1][2][3]

For much of its existence the line has played a minor role in London's transport system; however in recent years it has received significant investment to increase its capacity, including full 25kV AC overhead electrification, completed in 2018.[6] At the eastern end of the line, an extension to the Barking Riverside regeneration site is currently under construction, and is planned to open in 2021.[7]

History
A 1914 map of the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway

Original lines

The line has existed in its current form since 1981, and is mostly an amalgamation of lines built in the 19th century. The main section, between South Tottenham and Woodgrange Park, was built as the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway, a joint project between the Midland Railway and the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. This opened on 9 July 1894, linking the Midland and Great Eastern joint line at South Tottenham and the Forest Gate and Barking line at Woodgrange Park. The section west of South Tottenham was built as the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway, which opened in 1868 but had not been commercially successful as a stand-alone railway.

Predecessor routes

Although the route between Upper Holloway and Woodgrange Park has been constant, several stations have been the ends of the line. Kentish Town, St Pancras, Gospel Oak and Moorgate (via St Pancras) have all been the western termini. East Ham was an alternative eastern terminus for some time. Some trains were extended beyond Barking to destinations such as Southend and Tilbury. There was a regular boat train service between St Pancras and Tilbury.

A connection to Gospel Oak was added in 1888, but the routes via Kentish Town remained the primary ones and the Gospel Oak branch was abandoned in 1926. The connection to East Ham was abandoned in 1958.

The Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway section of the line had stations that were closed due to proximity to other stations or for other reasons. These include Highgate Road (closed 1918), Junction Road (closed 1943), Hornsey Road (closed 1943) and St Ann's Road (closed 1942).[8]

The line was considered for closure to passengers in 1963 as part of the Beeching Axe,[9] but local users protested and formed an action group to prevent closure. Beeching's proposals for London were not implemented for the most part, and the line remained open. Even so, it was allowed to fall into a poor state of repair and reliability,[10] and by 1980 had been cut back to an hourly service between Kentish Town and Barking. The station canopies were gradually demolished, ticket offices closed and staff withdrawn from stations.

Introduction of the present route

The situation began to improve in 1981 when electrification and upgrades to the line out of St Pancras (later part of Thameslink) displaced the line from Kentish Town. A new link to Gospel Oak was built and the hourly service from Kentish Town was replaced by the current route from Gospel Oak with two trains per hour. The service remained very unreliable due to the age of the trains, which were initially Class 115 and 108 units, replaced in the early 1990s by class 117 and 121 units.

Private operators
A Silverlink Class 150 at Gospel Oak

Initially part of British Rail Network SouthEast, the line was privatised in 1994, the track being owned by Railtrack (subsequently Network Rail) with the passenger service provided by the North London Railways franchise. This passed to National Express in 1997, which operated the line under the brand name Silverlink until November 2007. Under Silverlink, the slam door trains were replaced by Class 150 units in 2000, which improved reliability significantly. There were minor improvements in station facilities (such as CCTV and information points) but no major investment to upgrade the line and boost capacity, and the stations remained unstaffed.

London Overground
Early London Overground branded signage at Wanstead Park

Many lines within London were running at full capacity, and as a consequence the line took on a new strategic significance as a by-pass, relieving load on other lines by allowing passengers to travel between north and east London directly.

The Railways Act 2005 abolished the franchise and gave the operation of passenger services to Transport for London (TfL). In 2005, TfL started funding a small number of additional peak time and late evening services to relieve the worst overcrowding.

TfL took full control in November 2007 introducing improved late night and weekend services, and staff, ticket machines and Oyster equipment at all stations. The frequency was increased to three trains per hour during morning and afternoon peaks and the line was included on the Tube map for the first time.

The line was closed throughout most of September 2008 for upgrade work carried out by Network Rail. Capacity was increased from six trains per hour to eight (four each for passenger and goods trains). By replacing the overbridges carrying Sussex Way and Albert Road, and lowering the track in some other locations, it was made possible for W10 loading gauge goods trains to operate. Electrification was not included.[11]

In 2010 eight new Class 172 Turbostar diesel trains replaced the Class 150 units, with two 23-metre coaches and the option to introduce a third coach.[12][13] The service frequency was increased to four trains per hour in January 2011.[14]

Given the completion of electrification in 2018, new electric Class 710 trains were supposed to run from March 2018. The delivery of the trains was delayed by the manufacturer however and it was not known at that time when these units would enter service.[15][16][17]

Due to the class 172 units being needed by West Midlands Trains, three Class 378 units (378 206, 378 209 and 378 232) were moved from other parts of the London Overground and shortened down from five to four carriages to provide an interim service until the class 710 units entered service. However, 6 trains are needed to be able to run a full service, so from 15 March 2019 (the day the last class 172 units left London Overground) the frequency on the line was halved to two trains per hour.[18]

On 23 May 2019 the first two class 710 units entered service but the existing two trains per hour service was maintained until the full timetable was restored in June of that year.[19][20] All eight of the new class 710 units were deployed by August 2019, with TfL offering a month's free travel to compensate passengers.[21]

Electrification
The electrified stretch at South Tottenham

In 2008, electrification was ruled out on grounds of cost and difficulty of electrifying a line with so many viaducts and bridges,[22] but the Network Route Utilisation Strategy published by Network Rail in October 2009 showed a benefit–cost ratio for the scheme of 2.4:1.[23] In 2012, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, indicated that funding was "a matter for the Department for Transport".[23]

In 2011, Network Rail proposed electrification in Control Period 5 (CP5), but in July 2012 Justine Greening, the Secretary of State for Transport, stated that electrification was not included in the High Level Output Specification for CP5, and that any funds would need to be provided by TfL.[24] In August, the Mayor wrote to the Secretary of State for Transport to seek a way forward, and "she committed her officials to support work with TfL, Network Rail, train operators and other industry parties to see if a viable way can be found to bridge the funding gap."[25]

In November 2012, the magazine Modern Railways reported that the Department for Transport had ruled out the work on the basis of an estimated cost of £90 million, in contrast to an estimate of £40M by TfL.[26]

It was announced in June 2013 that £115M of funding for electrification was being made available as part of upgrades to rail infrastructure included in the government's 2013 spending round.[27] At the same time Transport for London announced that they had obtained a £90M commitment from the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for Transport.[28]

In September 2015, Network Rail awarded the £56.9M contract to electrify the line to J. Murphy & Sons.[29] There were part closures (at weekends and from South Tottenham to Barking) from June to late September 2016, followed by a full closure from October to February 2017. In February 2017, Network Rail announced that whilst the line would re-open as scheduled, they were not able to complete all the work planned due to "incorrect" designs and late delivery of materials.[30] Further evening and weekend works until late June 2017 were already planned, followed by around four months of commissioning work before the electric wires could be turned on so that Class 710 trains could run.[31] Although the line was completely electrified by mid-January 2018,[32] delays prevented the introduction of new electric trains until 2019.[33][34]

The line was electrified using the NR Series 2 OLE range.[35]

Longer trains
A new Class 710 four-coach electric train at Barking station

Increases in passenger numbers led to severe overcrowding at peak times, but it was not possible to increase peak frequencies without reducing the number of goods trains, as the line could accommodate only eight trains per hour in each direction. The two-coach Class 172 diesel trains in use between 2010 and 2019 were incapable of handling the increased number of passengers experienced after the incorporation into the London Overground. Between 2016 and 2018 the line was electrified by Network Rail; this work was delayed due to a number of design, track works and delivery problems. At the same time, platforms were lengthened to accommodate the new four-coach electric Class 710 trains. These trains were intended to be introduced in the spring of 2018, but the delivery was delayed by the manufacturer, the first two entering service on 23 May 2019, with the full fleet entering service in August 2019.[36][37] Because the delay caused timetable cutbacks and continued overcrowding, TfL offered a month's free travel, financed by the manufacturer Bombardier, to compensate passengers for the months of disruption they experienced.[38]

Accidents and incidents
  • On 23 January 2020, a freight wagon derailed between Leyton Midland Road and Walthamstow Queens Road stations, causing extensive damage to more than 2.5 miles (4km) of track; the line was closed between Barking and South Tottenham stations while repair works took place, whereby 10,000 tonnes of ballast, 5,300 concrete sleepers and 39 new pieces of rail were installed.[39] The line re-opened on 19 February 2020.[40]

Current operations

The line is owned and maintained by Network Rail as part of Great Britain's national rail network. It carries both goods and passenger traffic.

Passenger services on the line are operated by Arriva Rail London as part of the London Overground network under contract to TfL. There are four trains per hour in each direction Monday to Saturday from about 06:30 to about 2330, and on Sundays until about 22:00.[41][42][43][44] There is also single weekday morning service from Woodgrange Park to Willesden Junction, calling at all intermediate stations except for Gospel Oak.

Freight services are operated by DB Cargo UK, GB Railfreight and Freightliner. The line is heavily used by freight as it provides part of an orbital route around London, connecting with many radial routes and the North London Line at Gospel Oak.

Other services that use parts of the line infrequently and as a diversionary route, but do not call intermediately:

  • c2c: a few services on the east end of the line through Woodgrange Park
  • London Overground: A single Saturday service is timetabled to connect Tottenham South Junction and Seven Sisters on Lea Valley routes via South Tottenham station[45]

The line has an active users' group, "The Barking – Gospel Oak Rail User Group".[46]

Ticketing

Except at the interchange stations, staffed ticket offices were withdrawn by BR in the late 1980s. Under London Overground, self-service ticket machines were introduced in November 2007. Oyster / contactless card validators (for touching in and out) are at all stations. The ticket machines can be used to load credit onto Oyster cards. Passengers are required to buy tickets or touch in their Oyster/contactless cards, or else face a penalty fare.

Owing to the lack of ticket barriers and the difficulty of ticket verification when trains are crowded, the line has historically had a high level of fare avoidance. Under Silverlink most stations lacked any ticket purchasing facilities. In theory, passengers could purchase tickets from the conductors on the trains, but it was not always possible to do this. Following the introduction of the current ticketing arrangements, ticketless travel fell from an estimated peak of 40% under Silverlink, to 2% in March 2008.[47]

Passenger volume

The number of paying passengers has increased very significantly since the start of London Overground.

This is the passenger volume for the years beginning April 2002 to April 2019.[48]

Notes: The large increases in the year beginning April 2006 were partly due to travelcards for National Rail journeys being made from stations that have only a London Underground office and also using a different methodology to estimate likely journeys made from National Rail stations in Zone 1. The large increases in the year beginning April 2010 were partly due to Oyster Cards being introduced in January 2010,[49] and new rolling stock. Usage of the Gospel Oak to Barking line on the London Overground reduced as a result of engineering works throughout the year. Work included a full closure between October 2016 and February 2017.

Trains
Class 378 at Harringay Green Lanes station
Class 710 standing at Barking

Until 2010 London Overground operated six Class 150 two-coach diesel units on the line. They were replaced by eight Class 172/0 two-coach diesel multiple units (DMUs).

In 2017, all trains were diesel powered as the line was not fully electrified, with only two short sections having overhead electrification, at South Tottenham, to provide a link from Seven Sisters to Stratford, and from the junction with the Great Eastern Main Line to Barking but excluding the bay platform which this service uses. These sections were used only by occasional electric trains on other routes or by goods trains.

Electrification of the line finished in 2018 but no electric trains were running as there were delays with the new Class 710s.[50] As the leases for the Class 172 came to an end in early 2019, London Overground temporarily shortened three of its Class 378s to run on the line to substitute the Class 172s until the long-delayed Class 710s entered service on 23 May 2019. All of the Class 378s were replaced by 710s by August 2019.

Interchange
Sign advertising the interchange at Gospel Oak

The line has same-station interchange with the North London Line at Gospel Oak, the Victoria line at Blackhorse Road and the Hammersmith & City line, District line and c2c at Barking. There are out-of-station interchanges at:[51]

  • Harringay Green Lanes to Harringay on the Great Northern Route
  • South Tottenham to Seven Sisters on the Seven Sisters Branch of the Lea Valley Lines and the London Underground Victoria line. (Signposting in the street does not indicate the pedestrian/cycle route between the two stations through Stonebridge Road).
  • Walthamstow Queens Road to Walthamstow Central on the Chingford branch of the Lea Valley Lines and the London Underground Victoria line. A footpath between the two stations, considerably shortening the foot journey between them, opened on 11 August 2014.[52] While the footpath was first proposed in 1996, works had been delayed due to protracted legal battles over planning permission.[53]
  • Wanstead Park to Forest Gate on the Great Eastern Main Line
  • Woodgrange Park to Manor Park on the Great Eastern Main Line

There are official TfL out-of-station-interchanges,[54] whereby the passenger can continue an unbroken journey between

Two other interchanges are walkable:

Station facilities
Walthamstow Queens Road station entrance

Except at the interchange stations, station facilities are very basic. There are small shelters, information points with recorded service information, information screens and CCTV cameras. Typically there are one or two staff members on duty. Where there are no station buildings they operate out of container-sized portable offices.

Step free access

The line has some stations with step free access, allowing wheelchairs/pushchairs etc. easy access from street level to the platforms, at Gospel Oak, Upper Holloway, Harringay Green Lanes, South Tottenham, Walthamstow Queens Road and Barking.[55]

As the trains do not align exactly with the platform height, wheelchair users will probably require assistance to board or leave them.

Vibrations

Residents in Walthamstow complained that vibrations from goods traffic on the line were causing damage to their houses.[56]

Future

Under construction

Extension to Barking Riverside
Main article: Barking Riverside railway station

The line is currently being extended southeast by 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) from the present terminus at Barking to serve the Barking Riverside regeneration area, a brownfield site with permission for around 10,800 new homes.[7] Proposed in the mid 2010s following cancellation of the DLR extension to Dagenham Dock, the extension was approved in 2017,[57] with construction beginning in late 2018.[58] Running partially alongside the existing London, Tilbury and Southend Railway line and then a new viaduct to the Barking Riverside station, the extension will cost £260m[59] and is planned to be completed in late 2021.[7]

Proposed

Renwick Road
Main article: Renwick Road railway station

As part of the extension to Barking Riverside, a station at Renwick Road on the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway was proposed.[60] Although not being built as part of the extension to Barking Riverside, the station site was safeguarded so that it can be built at a later stage.[61]

Potential Thamesmead extension
Thamesmead TfL Proposals
Docklands Light Railway
Gospel Oak to Barking line
Gallions Reach
Barking
Armada Riverside[63]
Barking Riverside
or
River Thames
Thamesmead West[64]
Thamesmead Central[65]
Thamesmead Moorings[66]
Yarnton Way[67]
using Ridgeway
Plumstead and
or Belvedere
Woolwich Arsenal
or Abbey Wood

Following the plan to extend the line to Barking Riverside, there were also proposals to extend the line further across the river to Abbey Wood via Thamesmead, to allow for easier Orbital journeys in East London, and provide Thamesmead with a railway connection for the first time.[68] This was outlined in the R25 orbital railway proposal in 2014[69], and the potential of a future extension was mentioned in the inspectors report of the Transport and Works Order authorising the extension to Barking Riverside.[57]

However, in 2019 Transport for London and City Hall proposed an extension of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) to serve Thamesmead instead of an extension of the Overground, as part of the proposed Thamesmead and Abbey Wood OAPF (Opportunity Area Planning Framework).[70] An DLR extension was chosen due to lower connectivity benefits of an Overground extension, the low frequency (4 trains an hour) of the GOBLIN line, and most significantly - a construction cost twice as much as the DLR, as the gradients required to cross the River Thames would require large scale tunnelling works when compared to the DLR.[71] Despite recommending an extension of the DLR to Thamesmead, the consultation also noted that an extension of the GOBLIN line could provide good orbital transport links in the long term.

Other proposed changes

Local residents and users of the line have proposed adding a station between Leytonstone High Road and Wanstead Park to serve the Cann Hall area. The Leyton and Wanstead branch of the Labour Party has expressed an interest in the proposal.[72] The line's user group and Islington Borough Council have been pressing for the reopening of the station at Junction Road, as its proximity to Tufnell Park Underground station would allow interchange with the Northern line.[73]

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Further reading
  • "London's forgotten railway". RAIL. No. 321. EMAP Apex Publications. 31 December 1998 – 13 January 1998. pp. 18–22. ISSN 0953-4563. OCLC 49953699.
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