The Gospel Oak to Barking Line

The Gospel Oak to Barking Line runs for 11.9 miles between Barking and Gospel Oak, serving 12 stations, with a top line speed of 55 mph.

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The line in numbers

Length11.9 miles end to end
Trackabout 23 miles, counting every running line
Stations12
Top line speed55 mph
Passengers a year29.5 million entries and exits across its stations
Engineer's Line ReferenceTAH2, TAH1, TAH3, GOJ

Stations on this line

The busiest station on the line is Barking, 13.4 million entries and exits a year and 35th busiest in Britain.

Freight on this line, hour by hour

Freight is booked over the Gospel Oak to Barking Line on 1,388 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 254 paths on the Wednesday, 148 paths on the Saturday and 19 paths on the Sunday. 116 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 04:00 to 05:00 on the Tuesday, with 28 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

Lines it meets

Clapton Junction and Chingford Branch, Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness Line, High Speed 1, London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, North London Line.

Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.

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