Frontage of Barking station, Station Parade
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Frontage of Barking station, Station Parade
Image: © David Kemp Taken: 29 Mar 2017
Pevsner described the station frontage as "commensurably modern in outlook and unquestionably one of the best stations of this date [1959-61]". Tastes have changed since then but at the time its Brutalist architecture enhanced the image of what had (and not for the last time) become an extremely run-down line. Note the absence of the slip-road for buses and taxis that until fairly recently separated the station from the rest of the pavement.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.539398
Longitude
0.081187