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Hackney Wick
Hackney WickLocation of Hackney Wick in Greater London
Location	Hackney Wick
Local authority	London Borough of Hackney
Managed by	London Overground
Owner	Network Rail
Station code(s)	HKW
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	2
National Rail annual entry and exit
2019–20	2.837 million
– interchange	1,051
2020–21	0.950 million
– interchange	457
2021–22	2.341 million
– interchange	649
2022–23	3.082 million
– interchange	1,629
2023–24	4.180 million
– interchange	5,371
Key dates
12 May 1980	Opened
2017	Remodelled
Other information
External links	Departures Facilities
Coordinates	51°32′36″N 0°01′28″W / 51.543417°N 0.024389°W / 51.543417; -0.024389
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Hackney Wick is a station on the Mildmay line of the London Overground, located in the district of Hackney Wick, East London. Situated in Travelcard Zone 2, the station was opened on 12 May 1980 by British Rail as part of the Crosstown Linkline service between North Woolwich and Camden Road stations. Between Spring 2017 and May 2018, the station was rebuilt and modernised, including replacement of the footbridge by a subway. The new subway links the two platforms as well as providing a cycle and pedestrian link between Hackney and Tower Hamlets.

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History

The station opened on 12 May 1980 by British Rail as part of the Crosstown Linkline service. The area had been served by Victoria Park railway station, a short distance to the west, on the Broad Street–Poplar branch of the North London Railway from 1856 to 1943.

As part of the programme to introduce four-car trains on the London Overground network, the North London line between Gospel Oak and Stratford closed in February 2010; reopening 1 June 2010. This was to enable the installation of a new signalling system and the extension of 30 platforms. Engineering work continued to June 2011, during which reduced services operated and Sunday services were suspended.

The typical service at the station is 4 trains per hour westbound to Richmond via Hackney Central, Highbury & Islington, Camden Road and Willesden Junction, 2 trains per hour to Clapham Junction, and 6 trains per hour eastbound to Stratford.

Until 9 December 2006, when the line from Stratford to North Woolwich was closed to be converted to a Docklands Light Railway line, the eastbound service ran to North Woolwich calling at Stratford, West Ham, Canning Town, Custom House and Silvertown & London City Airport.

Hackney Wick station was a key transport point for the 2012 Summer Olympics as it is situated 100 m (330 ft) from the western periphery of the Olympic Park. However, due to potential overcrowding, TfL announced that westbound trains would not stop at this station for the duration of the Games.

Hackney Wick is one of four stations located around the park, along with Stratford, Stratford International and Pudding Mill Lane.

As part of the London 2012 Olympic legacy Wendy Hardie and Adam Brown undertook an art architecture collaboration to "refine the architecture and to make it more place specific and sensitive to its creative context". The local historical industries provided inspiration, notably innovation in chemistry, Hackney Cut canal and Lee Navigation. The result opened in mid 2018 with a number of notable elements. These include a wall formed of a continuous chain of extruded glass hexagons representing molecular structure of chemical compounds that were invented in Hackney Wick including the world’s first plastic, Cellulose nitrate (patented as Parkesine). The glass wall is supported by weathered steel hexagon shoes that are inspired by the rusty sheet piled retaining walls and hand mechanised lock gates found along the nearby waterways. In addition the concrete also depicts chemical compounds using debossed abstracted notations representing Petroleum, Cellulose nitrate and Shellac as well as Meldola blue and Primuline which were important compounds of the dye industry.

At 00:54 on 21 March 2019, two men were fatally electrocuted after climbing a wagon of a freight train stopped adjacent to Hackney Wick station. A coroner's report found that the men used a hole in a chain link fence to access the railway, and that fences in the area of the incident had not been inspected since 2016. The report also identified a number of failures in Network Rail's inspection regime.

Services

Hackney Wick currently has the following services on the Mildmay line of the London Overground, which are operated by Class 378 Capitalstar trainsets in off-peak.

• 8tph to Stratford
• 4tph to Richmond
• 4tph to Clapham Junction

Buses

London Buses routes 276 and 488 serves the station with London Buses route 339 serving the station indirectly on White Post Lane.

References

1. "London and South East" (PDF). National Rail. September 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009.
2. ^ "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
3. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 111. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
4. "London Overground to close from Gospel Oak to Stratford as part of £326m upgrade to deliver longer, more frequent trains". TfL. 18 December 2009. Archived from the original on 29 January 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
5. "London Overground timetable from 22 May" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
6. "Hackney Wick". Get Ahead of the Games. Transport for London. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
7. "Hackney Wick Station – Olympic Legacy Project". 12 April 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
8. UK Patent office (1857). Patents for inventions. UK Patent office. p. 255.
9. "Two people 'electrocuted' on Hackney Wick railway line". BBC News. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
10. Barnes, Tom (21 March 2019). "Two people electrocuted on train line in London". The Independent. UK. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
11. Tew, Richard (8 February 2020). Hackney Wick double fatality (PDF) (Report). Network Rail. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
12. Hassell, M.E. (25 May 2019). Regulation 28: Prevention of Future Deaths report (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 6 February 2021.
13. "Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford route" (PDF). 15 May 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
14. "Hackney Wick Station".

External links

• Excel file displaying National Rail station usage information for 2005/06 Archived 22 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine

• Train times and station information for Hackney Wick railway station from National Rail
• North London Line by Dave Bosher
• Biography of serial killers John Duffy and David Mulcahy Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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Homertontowards Clapham Junction or Richmond		Mildmay lineNorth London line		StratfordTerminus

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