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Station Parade, BARKING, IG11 8TU

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.

Outside the station entrance a gaggle of school children (all seemingly with matching pink backpacks) and teachers await a bus.

An obviously-named pub near the railway station in Barking. The price of office rentals had not gone up in four years: see Image The man with the stop-go board was controlling a pedestrian crossing for the Skyride.

View eastwards showing this major station as it was in 1961. That was not long after the station was comprehensively rebuilt and flyovers and a fly-under had been incorporated to allow ready flow of freight from Ripple Lane Yard and elsewhere down the Tilbury Line to the west and north over the main commuter lines from Fenchurch Street and the District Line. The platforms served (left to right): bay for terminating Kentish Town service, eastbound District (Upminster) Line, bay for terminating Hammersmith & City Line, with beyond a second face for eastbound District Line, Down and Up Southend direct lines, westbound District Line, down Tilbury line with an ex-War Department 2-8-0, and (the other side of the island) up Tilbury Line. The last two served both the Fenchurch Street route and (via a flyove), the route via Woodgrange Park to the rest of the national system. The Fenchurch Street to Tilbury, Southend and Shoeburyness lines were electrified a little over a year later.

The Barking Dog pub in Barking town centre.

The station is on both National Rail and London Underground lines. There are bus stops immediately outside the entrance.