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Description: | Upminster station is the eastern terminus of the District line, but was once part of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway.
This photographic postcard shows the station platforms. A Southend-bound train, hauled by steam locomotive number 63, is entering the station. Passengers wait on the platform and men are carrying out maintenance work on the empty track.
The Metropolitan District Railway first served the station in 1902, and in 1905, work began on electrification and widening of the line. In 1933 when London Transport was formed, the line was renamed the District line. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Copyright unknown - Collection of London's Transport Museum | Subjects: | Transport Work | Temporal: | 1908 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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