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Seven Kings
The station seen in 2019
Seven KingsLocation of Seven Kings in Greater London
Location	Seven Kings
Local authority	London Borough of Redbridge
Managed by	Elizabeth line
Station code(s)	SVK
DfT category	C2
Number of platforms	4
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	4
National Rail annual entry and exit
2016–17	3.099 million
2017–18	2.960 million
2018–19	3.168 million
2019–20	3.157 million
2020–21	1.286 million
Key dates
1 March 1899	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°33′49″N 0°05′49″E / 51.5635°N 0.0969°E / 51.5635; 0.0969
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Seven Kings railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line serving the district of Seven Kings in the London Borough of Redbridge, east London. It is 8 miles 46 chains (13.8 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Ilford and Goodmayes. Its three-letter station code is SVK and it is in Travelcard Zone 4.

The station was opened on 1 March 1899 by the Great Eastern Railway. It is currently managed by Transport for London. Services call at Seven Kings as part of the Shenfield – Liverpool Street stopping service as part of the Elizabeth line. Eventually, the Elizabeth line service will be extended beyond Liverpool Street to Paddington and onwards to Reading and Heathrow Airport.

History

Seven Kings station was opened on 1 March 1899. Before the London Underground's Central line was extended from Stratford via Gants Hill to Newbury Park in 1947, Seven Kings was one of two junctions for the Fairlop Loop to Woodford via Hainault. Seven Kings West Junction (used for freight, excursion and empty stock traffic) was closed in 1956, though the other connection, from Ilford, was severed as early as 1947 due to the expansion of the Ilford sheds, which are visible from the western end of Seven Kings' platforms. The carriage sheds comprise a large depot which includes two workshops.

Accidents and incidents

On 23 January 1963, eight people were injured in a collision between two trains on the main line just outside of Seven Kings station. An express train from Harwich Parkeston Quay to London passed a signal at danger and ran into the rear of a Southend-London stopping service at "fairly low speed". The express train was subsequently found to have a fault with one of its brakes. A Ministry of Transport report on the incident stated that the express train's driver "cannot be excused entirely from responsibility" given his passing of the red signal. The line was reopened four hours after the incident.

Services

The typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service is six trains per hour in each direction between Liverpool Street and Shenfield, reduced on Sundays to four per hour in each direction:

During peak times service frequency is increased and calling patterns may be varied. In addition, there is one early-morning service operated by Abellio Greater Anglia; from Colchester to Liverpool Street.

In June 2017 new Class 345 trains began entering service in preparation for the opening of Crossrail. There are no plans to extend the regularly-used platforms 3 and 4 from their current length of 187 metres (205 yd) to accommodate the new trains which will be over 200 metres (220 yd) long, so selective door opening will be utilised. New lifts, signage, help points, customer information screens and CCTV will be installed.

Preceding station	Elizabeth line			Following station
Ilfordtowards Paddington		Elizabeth line		Goodmayestowards Shenfield
Future development
Ilfordtowards Reading or Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 or Terminal 5		Elizabeth line		Goodmayestowards Shenfield

Connections

London Buses routes 86 and N86 serve the station.

References

1. Standard Tube Map (PDF) (Map). Not to scale. Transport for London. April 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 May 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
2. ^ "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
3. http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_SevenKings1963.pdf
4. TfL Rail Timetable
5. "Buses from Seven Kings" (PDF). TfL. 1 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.

External links

• Train times and station information for Seven Kings railway station from National Rail
• Excel file displaying National Rail station usage information for 2005/06 Archived 22 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine

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Stations	Heathrow branch Heathrow Terminal 5 Heathrow Terminal 4 Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 Hayes & Harlington Southall Hanwell West Ealing [REDACTED] Ealing Broadway Acton Main Line Reading branch Reading [REDACTED] Twyford [REDACTED] Maidenhead [REDACTED] Taplow Burnham Slough [REDACTED] Langley Iver West Drayton Hayes & Harlington Southall Ealing Broadway Central core Paddington [REDACTED] Bond Street Tottenham Court Road Farringdon [REDACTED] Liverpool Street [REDACTED] Whitechapel Abbey Wood branch Canary Wharf Custom House Woolwich Abbey Wood [REDACTED] Shenfield branch Liverpool Street [REDACTED] Stratford [REDACTED] Maryland Forest Gate Manor Park Ilford Seven Kings Goodmayes Chadwell Heath Romford [REDACTED] Gidea Park Harold Wood Brentwood Shenfield [REDACTED] Proposed stations Old Oak Common [REDACTED] Ladbroke Grove Silvertown
Rolling stock	Class 315 (former) Class 345
Operations	Crossrail (construction project) - see also History of the Crossrail project GTS Rail Operations MTR Crossrail
Related routes	Crossrail 2 Great Eastern Main Line Great Western Main Line Heathrow Express
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