Romford to Upminster Line

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Romford-Upminster Line

Stations

(Great Eastern Main Line)
Romford
Emerson Park
Upminster
(for LT&S)

The Upminster Branch Line is a 3.4 mile (5.5 km) branch line between Romford and Upminster in the London Borough of Havering. It forms Network Rail route EA 1040.

Places served by the line are:

Originally built as part of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and opened on 7 June 1893, the line now diverges from the Great Eastern Main Line at Romford. It is known colloquially as the Romford Push and Pull. The line is entirely within Travelcard Zone 6.

It is single-track throughout, and is electrified at 25 kV AC overhead. Electrification of the line saw an end to years of speculation about the future of the line. There is only one intermediate station, at Emerson Park. At Upminster there is no longer a connection to the LTSR line as the District Line tracks form a physical barrier.

Passenger services are currently operated by 'one', who replaced the previous operator, First Great Eastern, on 1 April 2004. Trains are normally formed by a Class 315 electric multiple unit (which are currently being refurbished with new interiors) or occasionally by a Class 321 electric multiple unit.

The current service pattern on the route (as of 2006) is one train every 30 minutes on Mondays to Saturdays between approximately 6.00 and 20.00. There is a slightly increased service during peak hours where the line runs at full capacity. The journey time from one end of the line to the other is 8 minutes.

edit Railway lines in London:
North London:	Hertford Loop Line Gospel Oak-Barking Line North London Line Northern City Line Lea Valley Lines St Albans Branch Line Thameslink Watford DC Line
East London:	Romford-Upminster Line
South London:	Bexleyheath Line Bromley North Line Catford Loop Line Dartford Loop Line Hayes Line Hounslow Loop Line South London Lines Tattenham Corner Line Thameslink
West London:	West London Line
Proposed network:	London Overground

edit Railway lines in the East of England:
Main lines:	East Coast Main Line Great Eastern Main Line Cambridge-King's Lynn "Fen" Line Cambridge-Norwich "Breckland" Line Colchester-Clacton Line Ely-Peterborough Line Ipswich-Ely Line London-Cambridge Line London, Tilbury & Southend Line Manningtree-Harwich "Mayflower" Line Thameslink West Anglia Main Line
Commuter lines:	Hertford Loop Line Lea Valley Lines Northern City Line Romford-Upminster Line Shenfield-Southend Victoria Line Witham-Braintree Line
Rural lines:	Cambridge-Ipswich Line Crouch Valley Line East Suffolk Line Grantham-Skegness Line Ipswich-Felixstowe Line Marks Tey-Sudbury Line Norwich-Sheringham "Bittern" Line Peterborough-Lincoln Line Thorpe le Soken-Walton Line Wherry Lines