Wanstead Park railway station

Wanstead Park is a railway station in Forest Gate, London. It is on the Gospel Oak to Barking line in Zone 3, 11 mi down the line from Gospel Oak and situated between Leytonstone High Road and Woodgrange Park. It is operated by London Overground. Despite its name, Wanstead Park Station is not situated in Wanstead but in Forest Gate – and it is not near Wanstead Park but Wanstead Flats. The station was opened 9 July 1894. The station is 360 yd from Forest Gate station, according to TfL's journey planner, and this interchange is suggested in the National Rail Timetable.

History
The station was opened on 9 July 1894 by the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway in the northeast of the County Borough of West Ham, 0.4 km south of the boundary with Wanstead and 2 km southwest of Wanstead Park.

The line was electrified in 2016-7 – whilst the working was underway (from 6 June 2016 until February 2017), trains were replaced by buses between Barking & South Tottenham (until 23 September 2016) and then through to Gospel Oak thereafter.

Services
All services at Wanstead Park are operated by London Overground using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service is four trains per hour in each direction between Gospel Oak and Barking Riverside. During the late evenings, the service is reduced to three trains per hour in each direction.

Connections
London Buses routes 58, 308 and 330 serve the station.