Busy Day at Romford Station, GEML | 12/04/19
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A busy late afternoon at Romford on the Great Eastern Mainline on a Friday afternoon.
Romford info:
Romford railway station is an interchange station on the Great Eastern Main Line, serving the town of Romford in the London Borough of Havering, east London. It is 12 miles 30 chains (19.9 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Chadwell Heath and Gidea Park. It is also the northern terminus of a branch line to Upminster operated by London Overground. Its three-letter station code is RMF and it is in Travelcard Zone 6.
The station is currently managed by TfL Rail. The majority of services call at Romford as part of the Shenfield-Liverpool Street "metro" service operated by TfL Rail, but the station is also served by off-peak Abellio Greater Anglia trains to and from Southend Victoria and Colchester Town.
In the future the TfL Rail service will be re-branded as the Elizabeth line as part of the Crossrail project. Eventually, the Elizabeth line service will be extended beyond Liverpool Street to Paddington and onwards to Reading and Heathrow Airport.
History:
The first Romford station, located to the west of Waterloo Road, opened on 20 June 1839 as the eastern terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway from Mile End. Both stations acted as temporary termini, with the line extending east to Brentwood and west to Bishopsgate (Low Level) in 1840. In 1844, the station was relocated to its current position, some 400m east of the original and at about this time, the gauge of the ECR was changed from 5' (1,524 mm) to standard gauge of 4 ft 8 1⁄2 (1,435 mm). On 7 June 1893 the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway opened a second station in Romford, on a branch line to Upminster. The two stations were combined in 1934.
In May 2015 the Upminster branch Iine transferred from Abellio Greater Anglia to London Overground and the regular Shenfield "metro" service transferred to TfL Rail.
Accidents and incidents:
On 29 December 1944, one person was killed and three were injured when, in darkness and heavy fog, a Chelmsford-London service passed two signals at danger on the approach to Romford and ran into the rear of a stationary freight train. The passenger train's speed at the moment of impact was about 15 mph. One crew member on the goods train was killed instantly. The Chelmsford train driver was held responsible for the collision in a Ministry of War Transport report.
On 4 February 2010, two people standing on the platforms at Romford were injured when a quantity of stone ballast was shed from a freight train passing through the station. Subsequent examination found that the train wagon's doors had not been properly closed when it departed from the goods yard at Acton, west London, bound for Ipswich.
Services:
The majority of services are currently operated by TfL Rail which runs the stopping "metro" route between Liverpool Street and Shenfield. Greater Anglia also operates medium-distance services between Liverpool Street and destinations in the East of England, while London Overground runs the half-hourly "push and pull" service between Romford and Upminster.
The typical off-peak Monday to Saturday service from Romford is:
8 trains per hour (tph) to London Liverpool Street, of which:
6 call at all stations (TfL Rail),
2 call at Stratford and Liverpool Street (Greater Anglia);
6 tph to Shenfield, calling at all stations (TfL Rail);
2 tph to Upminster, calling at all stations (London Overground);
1 tph to Southend Victoria calling at Shenfield then all stations (Greater Anglia);
1 tph to Colchester Town calling at Shenfield, Chelmsford, Witham, then all stations (Greater Anglia).
In 2017 new Class 345 trains began entering service as Crossrail partially opened. Platforms 2 to 5 will be extended from their current length of between 179 metres (196 yd) and 182 metres (199 yd) to accommodate the Crossrail trains which will be over 200 metres (220 yd) long once extended to nine carriages. New lifts, signage, help points, customer information screens and CCTV will also be installed.
Connections:
London Buses routes 5, 66, 86, 103, 128, 165, 174, 175, 193, 247, 248, 252, 294, 296, 347, 365, 370, 375, 496, 498, 499, 647, 648, 649, 650, 651, 674 and 686 and night routes N15 and N86 and LSP route 575 all serve the station.
Went on a 321 for the first time the other day, them things are bumpy as hell but I love these units
At least they're making good use of the class 345s since Crossrail seems to be as far away as ever.
its mad how the 321s are like old yet so youthful in appearence and functionality, they look well taken care of
They've aged really well. Sadly they're going to be removed from the route I use (Doncaster to Leeds on the east coast mainline) when the replacements arrive.
My old local station thanks for uploading. I love the sound of the 321s and 345s sound cool too
Same here, proper old-school electric motor sounds.
Wonderful film Richard
Fantastic video Romford is my best station
im sorry but kinda cringy dude
@@Great_WesternTVFan tf are you talking about?
Nice video + the 90 4 tone
Great video luca 👍😀
Read the channel description. He is called Luca
@@oliver.42 ah thanks for reminding me, I forgot 😊
Awesome!
Love the class 70
The trains at 5:30 are used for the thumbnail!
1:23 nice boots.
Do we have any idea what the final designs for Romford station will be? I can see they’re starting to do some work here but no idea how it will eventually look or when it will be finished. It would also be nice if the overground to Upminster went a little further to somewhere else like Rainham or even Dartford
The class 90 at 6:46 is the best
Who's excited for the Elizabeth line! You can ride for free if you wear the queen elizabeth purple trainers!
Or as Geoff Marshall says, the Cross Purp Eliza Rail
3:53 8:03 Nice sound of class 315
love it mate we should do a meet up at some point
Nice video! Would some old trains be replaced immidiately?
They only have so many 7 car class 345s.
The rest are 9 cars and can't be used here yet.
However on the Paddington side they can now use the 9 car. So the some of the 7 car used on the Paddington side will be moved to the Liverpool Street side.
Then the class 315 can be removed from service.
Eventually all trains will be 9 car.
@@dominicfindlay Ah ok! Thank you very much! How many 9-car trains are there?
@@UHarshanBlackBoy1995 well that number is changing,
As the carriages are being delivered
twitter.com/ianvisits/status/1258070048104689670?s=19
How I think they will do it.
They will have to use 7 car from Liverpool Street (High Level)
So when crossrail tunnels open, they will close the Liverpool Street High Level platforms to lengthen them.
In this time they can lengthen the 7 car trains to all be 9 car.
@@dominicfindlay Ah ok! Thank you very much!
I bet bethnal greens taking a while
I'm not uploading it
Are you recording on Saturday
Yeah
Richard Chalklin are you at the final hst
Are you recording any where after
@@franchi7304 i will be at the final hst at Paddington on saturday 18th may
The Nintendo Gamer 55 I might
No class 710!
Something about the design of the 345s that I find very unappealing. Not sure exactly what it is they just don't look very nice. I wonder if these fleets of newer units will stand the test of time like the BR ones have? As basic and unrefined as they are, you have to admit the 321s have worn their 30+ years in service really well! Probably down to their simplicity and clean functionality.
soundseeker63 The new 345s, 700s, 717s, 800s etc are cheap plastic stuff. They won’t last 10 years