Emerson Park - Least Used Overground Station

The London Overground is the next line on the Tube Map for me to pay a visit to its least station ... and this time we head out to Zone 6 in east London where between Romford and Upminster is the single platform for the stop that is Emerson Park,.
But we're going on foot to get there ... by first going to find all the foot crossing that are along the branch line!

[@MeFreeBee]

I used to go through Emerson Park Halt every day on my way to school in mid 1970s. Some not very interesting things I remember: The service was then known as the "Push and Pull" The trains were rather smelly diesels that left a thick greasy black deposit on the sleepers at both Upminster and Romford where the train waited between journeys. The driver's cab had a glass back wall so you could watch the driver do his driving thing and watch the track ahead. There was a first class compartment but no first class service - it was always full of us school kids. Before electrification the trees grew much closer to the track and sometimes brushed against the carriage. It was like being in the countryside. Being single track it was exhilarating but quite safe to stick your head out the window - except for those trees! Being slam-door trains it was de rigueur to open the door as soon as it drew level with the platform and jump out as soon as you dared. You had to run quite fast or fall flat on your face. The slope down to the Emerson Park platform is quite steep. It was hilarious watching Emerson Park kids fly down it but still miss the train. Oh how we laughed and jeered at them!

[@llux]

very interesting! was the bus not an easier option then? i always see this service as not needed as the 370 goes to the same places. i guess now its the same price whether you want to get the bus or train. did you go to emerson park school?

[@peterdean8009]

I used to catch the smelly diesel in the 1960s. I could never understand why the driver had to collect a token from the signal box at Romford and then hand it to the signalman at Upminster, even though there was just one train that shuttled back and forth. Was it a case of 'Health & Safety gone mad'?

[@freedomisslavery6840]

I bet the demographics of the school and area have changed a bit since those days!

[@benamp00]

It's still known as the push and pull

[@Emers0ned]

Did you go to Emerson Park or Campion School?

[@geofftech2]

So the second foot crossing that I encouter really IS NOT on www.openstreetmap.org - as in, the alleyways either side that lead up to it, are just not shown! Who'd like to add them in?

[@richardwager283]

Geoff Marshall there are a few other foot crossings in Havering, crossing the c2c line in Upminster/Cranham. Emerson Park was named by William Carter after his son, he developed country villas for city gentlemen 😜

[@zainmerali8606]

Geoff Marshall do a video in dalston

[@ilovecats-jv3fb]

Geoff Marshall have you done the DLR yet? Please get back to me

[@JISJ1964]

Thought about those narrow alleyways and Londons rumour to be the best cameraguarded city in the world, those alleyways late in the evening would be a terrific place to get robbed.

[@magnusdagbro8226]

Next time, make a GPS track and add it yourself! 🙂

[@davidtyrer5380]

I used to live in a flat overlooking Emerson Park station and commuted to Canary Wharf via Upminster from there. It may be a least used station but the service was always reliable and really handy to easily connect to other services. I’m glad it has survived and now part of TfL.

[@M1CAE1.]

It's almost ironic that that particular branch of the London Overground connects Romford and Upminster, yet Emerson Park Station itself is closer distance-wise to Hornchurch than to either of termini! Also Hornchurch Station I think is worth it's own segment, from the Abandoned platforms to the general story of the RAF base there and how the station was used throughout WWII...

[@MrJezza31]

Least used station on Crossrail: All of them.

[@chrimbo90]

MrJezza31 all the stations, all of them

[@jayzo]

Oof.

[@transportfromolly]

MrJezza31 Acton Main Line

[@redgamer2163]

Gidea Park?

[@MrRevika]

Acton Main Line

[@DavidShepheard]

7:05 "Oh look. It's that man that likes to go to stations, where they have lawn mowers. What have we got that he can listen to here?"

[@pessoa70]

I used to take the train from Gidea Park to Romford and then Upminster to go to school, over thirty years ago: the local authority paid for our British Rail season tickets! Eventually they cut costs and asked us to use the bus instead. Glad that the service is still running as it is the only connection between the two London/ Southend lines.

[@norbitonflyer5625]

Don't the Jubilee Line and DLR between West Ham and Stratford count as a connection between the two Southend routes?

[@stevesmith8484]

I love your site! All the video's are great, informative, funny, ironic at times, but always interesting and well made. I live in Toronto we can only dream of having a transit system even a 1/4 as good as the you have. Fantastic work.

[@billfreeman1516]

Always enjoy your videos like these walking tour ones as I get to see parts of London I'm in Australia and never have visited London so these are my "travels"

[@rade-blunner7824]

You're in my neck of the woods! Despite that, I have to confess I think I've only used this line maybe once or twice in my life. You should note that there isn't a Gidea Park at Gidea Park either! (It was the Gidea Hall estate, It got bought out by Herbert Raphael, who was the town planner for what would become Gidea Park. He demolished the Hall and turned a chunk of the estate into a park... but it's called Raphael Park)

[@andrewphipps8103]

Geoff must like walking as Gidea park to Emerson park isn’t exactly around the corner, even if it is a direct road!

[@rosiefay7283]

Thanks for doing that little explore as well as talking about the station itself. (Geoff Explores?) How strange, seeing as foot crossings of rail lines at grade are so rare, there are 3 of them just on this little stretch of line. I note that, while you were doing All The Stations, on Fri 21 Jul, you had an easy day of it, and ticked off just one station, Emerson Park. The only station to get a day all to itself. PS Parallelograms.

[@harrysmith3606]

It's so funny - I grew up just down the road from these level crossings and used them often to get to my friend's houses. I never realised that they were remarkable in any way til I saw this video

[@everycloud7144]

As I kid I'd spend hours playing on the train tracks at cranham foot crossing, so weird stumbling across it in a random video.

[@dez3540]

Managed to get to the one between Osborne Road and Cranham Road recently - very pleasant indeed.

[@sdrawkcabUK]

According to hidden-london.com, the name comes from Emerson, son of William Carter who developed this area in the 1890s. I guess the 'park' was just an attempt to give it a suitably elevated quasi-rural name, as lampooned by Bill Vaughan ("Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them").

[@ianmoseley9910]

sdrawkcabUK Would have been rural before development in the 1890s

[@toffer99]

Alternatively, named after the famous band -Emerson, Park and Palmer.

[@AbsoluteTVYT]

The station front of Burgess Hill still has its NSE sign! Never been updated... You should visit and talk about why there's two stations within a mile of each other and in the same town, too.

[@silenthunteruk]

One of my local stations - we call the line 'the push-pull'. Romford to Upminster was in fact proposed for closure in the Beeching Report but escaped the axe - it's had a major increase in passenger numbers in the last decade or so. The 8-minute journey between Romford and Upminster is a good alternative to the bus if you're there at the right time.

[@Damien_N]

Undoubtedly this is well known now, but the Northern City line out of Moorgate to Finsbury Park still has the Network Southeast signage at it's stations if anyone still fancies seeing it in use today.

[@silenthunteruk]

Only Essex Road now - GTR stuck vinyls over the others with 1970s style Rail Alphabet signs...

[@Damien_N]

Silent Hunter yikes! I thought Moorgate still had the old signage?

[@romanaii]

Trains are now Elizabeth line style with orange plus there is a crossing down wood hall hall crescent too

[@Lynxfan2]

Welwyn Garden City Station has NSE flash logo on the platforms. Kind regards, Peter Skuce, St Albans. Hertfordshire.

[@ianburit3705]

Emmerson Park was a chancy name given to open fields to a new venture buildings estate for better quality housing around the 1930`s I believe..

[@djackmanson]

I concentrated hard, but I just brought Tinksrbell back to life.

[@7arboreal]

“Thanks, weather” A t-shirt for every British person.

[@redgamer2163]

i am not British, and i live in a zone with 30/40 Celsius in summer and 10 in the winter. When british come here, they always use Tshirt

[@andrew1976williams]

Great video. I'd never even heard of Emerson Park! No wonder it's the least used station on the Overground network.

[@meesaye1826]

It has been called the Belair of east London...

[@petermc7098]

Hello There, this is an interesting and decent episode, thank you for sharing this, it's much appreciated. Cheers Peter :)

[@IBLRG]

Following the original video I had a trip to Emerson Park and it's a fantastic little station The idea of a shuttle service is something we will take on board for the Brigg Line as the demise of Arriva Northern gathers pace.

[@NeillyWheelie]

I love bin bags in thr breeze at Emerson Park

[@Distributed-Power]

Hello Geoff, great to meet you on the plane on Monday. In this video, you walk past my parents house at 2:34 (where the red car is over your left shoulder) Keep up the good work and I'm sure we'll bump into each other again somewhere! Cheers, Stephen.

[@NedsTrains]

Brilliant review of the branch line Geoff! And how London has more foot crossings than you think. By the way I was at the London transport museum and I noticed you were in a video about the thameslink program. I just wanted to know if you had any association with the transport museum as it was a surprise to see a video of you in the museum. Thanks Geoff. 👍😀🚆

[@stephenholt4670]

Geoff, for a sense of TfL completeness you should also do least-used bus stop, least-used river boat stop, and least-used cable car stop (presumably equal, as you can't really do one without the other!)

[@sameentahanee8133]

WOW Geoff Your Good At Doing To To Things Like This

[@conscienceaginBlackadder]

Stations named after non-existent parks? Another is Waungron Park in Cardiff. There is no such park, it was called park with the idea of to encourage park+ride use, despite not even room to give it a car park! A weird mess, but I remember it happening at the time. Same idea as Parkway, but Parkway not reckoned suitable to call a local branch station. So that happened for a modern station opened1987, but for Emerson there can't have been like reasons for its name in 1909. Emerson Lake would be a nice name,

[@transportexpert4057]

Cool I didn’t know that there was more than one foot crossing

[@98dizzard]

They almost exclusively use 315s on the Romford-Upminster. It is driven by Crossrail drivers, so they are already qualified on 315s. The 317s were too unreliable and struggled more in leaf fall season.

[@bensummers5287]

Have you guys ever thought of making a video (or videos) about the remnants of London's original tram system?

[@martinmcgowan89]

those seat covers, the same as Yorkshire bus, haven't seen them in like years xD

[@hart-of-gold]

Those foot crossing looked odd to me, because in NSW Australia they have a tight chicane to force people to look up and down the track before crossing.

[@benamp00]

You finally come to the east!!

[@natashawong8334]

Emerson Park:842 people per day.

[@ahpadt]

I walked past one of the purple line Tottenham Court Road entrances the other day and noticed the TCR sign was not in all upper-case. Is this TFL confirming Geoff's opining that the purple line is not considered an 'underground mode' but rather overground train?

[@bradleyjones6697]

May sound silly me asking but wouldn’t Battersea Park be the least used overground station with its very scarce service?

[@wilfbm9067]

It's based on the office for road and rail passenger statistics not the amount of trains serving it

[@bradleyjones6697]

WBM and I assume they wouldn’t be able to differentiate between passengers coming in on Overground Services compared to NR services?

[@DubGathoni]

It is now only the least used station on the Liberty Line, but what of the other lines? Least used among them is needed.

[@RobGodwin]

Come to Harold Wood !! We're just up the road 😊

[@chancerNW]

The missing crossing alley way could be a deliberate error for map copy right protection.

[@FrancescoBellringer]

I was expecting Emerson Park to be the lests used

[@cheoleary165]

Since he announced he would do least used on underground I knew it would be this

[@abbiearcher4716]

Hey Geoff, you should put wee notes of the what3word address of places like these for people to check them out. That way, people would just have to put w3w.co/ followed by the w3w address into a web browser and they can find out where these things are and visit them themselves if they wanted. Just for an example, the entrance to the station is beans.detail.index, so the web address would be w3w.co/beans.detail.index. Also one of the crossings is at puppy.horses.dining. Not working for what3words or anything. Just saying it's hella useful and I use it on my channel.

[@CityWhisperer]

1:57 Not sure if that's safe. Looks a bit scary tbh, but I'm not a professional in that matter, so who knows.

[@DoktorJest]

Parallelograms?

[@CtrlOptDel]

Your first pronunciation of Cranham was correct.

[@highpath4776]

Question, Where in London are there NSE Style Clocks remaining ?

[@DanTheCaptain]

Today I learned what a “stile” is. I can see why it is used and can be useful in the countryside. But why have one in that small pathway?

[@wanderingorganist]

No park. But is there an Emerson Lake?

[@mohammedazizurrahman8348]

i think least used dlr station is West Silvertown or Star Lane and TFL RAIL Maryland And or Hanwell

[@ptrmdn]

What about Battersea Park with its two trains a day?

[@ajs41]

I hope there aren't any plans to close Emerson Park due to low numbers of passengers.

[@meesaye1826]

Nah, the numbers are going up.

[@ajs41]

@@meesaye1826 Thanks for the information.

[@Rogue136]

Geoff Marshall The name you are looking for for that shape is a parallelogram.

[@emiliyalemon166]

I’ve been to Gidea Park before, didn’t expect that

[@chrismccartney8668]

Stiles to stop Herbert's on normally stolen motorcycles roaring around grounds park and track side...

[@seaside-dn8dp]

Why did london overground take over this little branchline anyway. I mean it's completely isolated from the other overground lines for a start and it's just a small branchline. What was wrong with greater anglia owning this line originally

[@Garfie489]

Upminster and Romford both have stopping, and express services. Express services are not suitable to running a branch line like this, which leaves the stopping services. Both stopping services are TFL - Crossrail, and the District line. The S Stock cant run on the line, and Crossrail isnt physically connected to the service and would need special trains for it. Thus the Overground as a TFL service makes the most sense as it can easily transfer to Liverpool street and has trains that work for the line without modification.

[@cmgrailvideos999]

It was part of their agreement for taking over the Shenfield stopper and Lea Valley lines. GA couldn’t operate it now as their trains are all too long anyways.

[@andysmith5997]

Emerson Park and Lamer!

[@natashawong8334]

Emerson Park:307,655 people per year.

[@chrismccartney8668]

Emerson Park is the of housing built many years ago..Not Cheap Area

[@ilovecats-jv3fb]

Do the DLR

[@winstonsmasterplan]

What is the point of all the foot crossings? Am I right in saying that foot crossings are rare? 3 on one line?

[@norbitonflyer5625]

The point is to allow pedestrians to cross the railway. On busier lines there would be footbridges.

[@SuperRolyPoly]

Maybe the film will encourage people to use the line 😁

[@danwoodhouse9290]

842 passingers a day not counting freedom pass holders like me who would'nt bother touching in/out

[@mattbuck4950]

We need a Least Used Waterloo & City...

[@olitesla5891]

Matt Buck clever.

[@gibbo9089]

Boring!

[@envirotrident_yt]

April fools lol

[@largegrainofsand]

Seems like a good idea for an April Fools video

[@marcociarleglio]

Which is quieter out of the 2 stations? Given that they are both busy?

[@PeterNancarrow]

3:20 That is what call crossing the railway in stile!!

[@Fm_1055]

Dun dun chhhhh

[@LukeAlfordUKsteam]

Oh no please no

[@TommyWylie]

Talk about disabled access!

[@erickc1986]

I live in Texas, yet I can't stop watching your videos! It is great hearing people talk about their passion.

[@JessPrincess02]

it’s weird seeing my local area on this video especially as i’ve walked loads of these exact paths

[@richardhutchinson5546]

What about, "Least used station on the Heathrow Express"

[@Drawyah]

Waterloo and City Line too!

[@colbyk8333]

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[@LJC94512]

@Leule Dawit r/wooosh

[@sosteam2797]

Leule Dawit he’s joking

[@gabri_maybe]

@Leule Dawit What's More Least Used? Bank or Waterloo?

[@Alan_Mac]

No Emerson Park? There probably isn't an Emerson Lake either...

[@silenthunteruk]

If it was there, it's probably pretty much disappeared under the million pound plus houses of that area.

[@grantlee5737]

I too, believe in father christmas

[@paulsengupta971]

Is there a Palmer though?

[@sihollett]

@@paulsengupta971 Yes, near Enfield. He's Green.

[@llux]

@@silenthunteruk gotta love parkstone

[@TPhype-Discovery]

I almost forgot about the London Overground route between Upminster and Romford.

[@benamp00]

Sadly underappreicated

[@nativenewlondoner]

So has TfL

[@CIMAmotor]

I forget about it all the time, it would be useful sometimes.

[@jamesebrown2043]

Although that was but where's the Map a lines btw Romford and Upminster? I'm sure a map's was a past with London Overground TfL updates.

[@martinmitchell7280]

Its a wonderful little service. Shame it stops so early in the evening - especially at weekends where the last train is around 8pm.

[@chrisredditch]

My part of the world. Born in Gidea Park, Nan lived 200 yds from Emerson Park. I give that station loads of love.

[@jonistan9268]

Hey Geoff Since I went to check out the foot crossings in September this year, I decided to post an update on them here. The first one is still there, unchanged, with the gates and everything still in place. The two others have been closed by Network Rail in June 2022. The narrow and rather overgrown alleyways leading to them are still there, but the crossings themselves have sadly been closed with pedestrians being redirected via the nearby road bridge and the footbridge respectively.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Who else remembers the Emerson Extraction during All the Stations...all the Stations except Emerson Park!

[@ianmcclavin]

Who could forget the Emerson Extraction? I've never seen two people looking so miserable in all my life....😁🤔😵😋😈😳👍

[@mrmoomooface1662]

Wouldn't it make more sense to incorporate this line as part of Crossrail because it's actually connected to Crossrail, and it's not connected to the rest of the Overground. All you'd need to do is change the signing, paint the handrails purple and get a Crossrail train running on it. If you wanted to be really lazy, you could just paint that current train purple and not bother with the Crossrail Aventras. It would certainly look nicer on the map than a random line of orange separated from the rest!

[@hostilepancakes]

mr moomooface Because that would increase the wait time during rush hours for customers northeast of Romford, which would defeat the purpose of having Crossrail go all the way out to Shenfield, especially outside of peak times.

[@fetchstixRHD]

MTR drivers run the trains apparently, but I don't see the line getting brought into Crossrail (and can pretty much guarantee you'll never see a 345 on the line!) If you wanted to brand it as a "feeder" line or something then that might work, you'd have to make it clear there aren't any through trains though...

[@Reddsoldier]

A good reason to use this branch is that if you buy a return to Fenchurch Street (London Terminals) on the C2C, that ticket is accepted at Liverpool Street in the week since C2C run trains there at the weekend. So This and the Jubilee Line at West Ham are a great way to go to a Terminal with way better connections for no additional fare. Why you'd take this branch instead of the Jubilee Line? Well if you have ever been on the C2C at Rush Hour you'd be well aware of the fact about 50% of the passengers are using the train to get to Barking and Upminster so you're very lucky to get a seat if you go to West Ham.. Whereas if you go to Upminster, it's actually quite likely, albeit at the expense of a regular travel time since you need to gamble that the train will be at Romford when you get there. Then again if it isn't there's some great opportunities to watch the trains go by at Romford while you wait a half hour. I'm weird ok, and I like having a seat for a journey even if getting that seat makes the journey take longer!

[@BarryFrancis]

I'm happy that in the comments of one of your earlier videos I guessed, correctly as it turns out, that Emerson Park would be the least used station on the Overground. I've always thought that Emerson Park would be an excellent name for a band. Though that thought was probably heavily influenced by there already being the group Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

[@TommyWylie]

And there isn't a Park, or a Lake, or... er... palm trees at Emerson Park station!

[@Inglesdivertidocomshai]

This station is a good way to dodge ticket inspectors if you're going to Romford/Upminister.

[@five-o5362]

course u wud fam

[@jnd933]

shabz akz enjoying your free house in romford?

[@thesmithrecord]

Wow. This is my hometown. Also I remember going over the last foot crossing when you posted the video about the one in London closing.

[@Polska1981]

TfL Rail provide the drivers for this services

[@stephendines1936]

I remember Craven DMUs on that line prior to it being electrified

[@markiangooley]

The most stylish crossing isn’t on the map! Maybe Emerson Park used to be a place to park one’s Emerson. Whatever those were...

[@michaelvereker4681]

Could you do least used station in zone 1?

[@matsui90]

A least used station for each and every zone could be a good addition to the series. Go to the next least used if its already been covered on another video.

[@sarahg3550]

I'd predict Mansion House or Temple. 😂Waterloo!😂

[@hostilepancakes]

Sarah G My guesses are for either Regent's Park on the Bakerloo line, Goodge Street on the Northern line, or Bayswater on the Circle/District.

[@hakc97again]

Lambeth North

[@rickoneillable]

HostilePancakes, the One and Only I used to work at Goodge Street...gets a lot of commuters. Regent park wouldn’t be a bad shout.

[@panzerunit8708]

Geoff, if you go to the overground platform at Romford, there is a rainbow overground roundel

[@presfieldgoalie]

Least used Emirates Cable Car station next?

[@hostilepancakes]

Major Meh Haha, very funny. It's only got two stations. Users going in one end must come out the other.

[@norbitonflyer5625]

@@hostilepancakes They could go straight back again, and some do.

[@magdaklajmon4910]

@@hostilepancakes r/wooooooosh

[@Stockstad]

Please, don’t forget the least used station on the Cablecar!

[@DigitalDiabloUK]

I’d guess the one on the north of the river is least used, because I bet more visitors get on/off at the visitor centre side and do the full loop.

[@ThatBusDriverKane]

0:27 I drove that exact bus on the 496 yesterday

[@James-zs3vm]

well the name checks out

[@Cpr1234]

Maybe that is you, as the bus shown does happen to be on the 496 route

[@ThatBusDriverKane]

Cpr1234 I would like to believe that but I would have noticed as I always look at the shop he’s in front of as I like to see my buses reflection coming towards it

[@PaulPlowman1]

For anyone interested in level crossings - pedestrian or otherwise - I've written this... www.paulplowman.com/stuff/every-level-crossing-in-the-uk/

[@Pierlover]

I remember this when it was Emerson Park Halt and had a ticket collector and probably a station master. I even remember steam trains running on this route in the late 50's and being fascinated by the driver catching a metal loop from the man in the signal box at Upminster. I always wondered what would happen if he didn't catch it or he dropped it! It never occurred to me that there is no Emerson Park!

[@norbitonflyer5625]

Since the object attached to the metal loop is the "token" that gives the driver the authority to use the line (and, since there is only one token, the assurance that no other train is on the line) I guess he would have to stop and pick it up.

[@esd9782]

Fun fact: the network southeast "logos" on the platforms are still in place at Welwyn Garden City [WGC] on the East Coast Main Line

[@lukegibson191]

I believe theres still one at Biggleswade too

[@Harry-pp6vx]

Luke Gibson They are there at the stairs in the concrete.

[@lukegibson191]

@@Harry-pp6vx Theres also the NSE logo on the sign at Sandy

[@Harry-pp6vx]

Luke Gibson Really I will have a look thanks

[@lukegibson191]

@@Harry-pp6vx pretty sure it was still there last time I went past it

[@romanaii]

Help Geoff they have just shut the crossing down burnway and woodhall with mimimal notice yesterday eve come and campaign to get them reopen

[@mohammedazizurrahman8348]

its an ok station but should have barriers plus theres a local right next door and i saw someone vomit there

[@SiVlog1989]

It's almost like this route was the unforeseen afterthought that TFL were obliged to take over with Crossrail (eventually) taking over, but as Romford to Upminster is not part of the Crossrail plan but Romford station is, still at least it provides flexibility for travelers to and from London to either Liverpool Street, Fenchurch Street or the District Line

[@timrollpickering]

IIRC that's exactly how TfL wound up with it - they got given a choice of either this or the Greenford shuttle. Branding it as Overground avoids a battle in the future over demands to have through Crossrail services coming this way.

[@norbitonflyer5625]

@@timrollpickering The branding as Overground was when the 345s take over all Crossrail/TfL Rail services, London Overground will be the only operator with suitable trains. Had the "Goblin" not been electrified there might have been a case for transferring the Greenford shuttle to Overground as well, but as the Overground now have no diesel trains it has stayed with GWR.

[@crispoman]

Geoff, I believe the NSE shape is called a Lozenge.

[@sparkyprojects]

If the sides of each shape are equal, the mathematical term is a Rhombus, if the opposite seds are equal but adjacent sides aren't, then is a parallelogram

[@_ibuki]

Just call it quadrilateral lol

[@andrewwright7712]

@@sparkyprojects I thought it was a Rhombus too, I'm glad it's not just me.

[@qwertyTRiG]

It's called a lozenge in heraldry, I believe.

[@tonyskinner1643]

I'm with Rhombus too

[@EastLondonMillwall]

My local station .. trains used to stop at 8pm and not run Sunday’s but now run to 10pm and everyday. Amazing considering your facts

[@bill5514]

On my God this is my local station!

[@jonaskarlsen4504]

nobody asked

[@savageman8131]

I don't live in london but i have a small tube map collection but what is the red cross on the tube maps on Emerson park?

[@nigelkingsley444]

Looking at the bottom right of the map (May 2019), the explanation given is, “Services or access at these stations are subject to variation.”

[@roberthindle5146]

Fun fact....there was another station just north of Upminster right up until 1971 called Laymer. Because it was so close to Emerson Park, British Rail proposed to create a new station replacing both, called Emerson Park and Laymer. Alas, delays meant that by the time funding was available, the project had been demoted to a rather formulaic progressive rock band with a slight name change and Laymer was simply removed.

[@mckenzie403]

I enjoyed 11 minutes of bin bags swaying at Emerson Park , when I saw the title. I had to click :-)