Upminster station line. Platforms 1A is a bay platform only used during engineering works and on Sundays for services via Ockendon. Platform 1 is generally used by services to Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street, platform 2 for Grays, Southend and Shoeburyness. Platforms 3, 4 and 5 are served by the District line, and platform 6 is utilised by services to Romford operated by London Overground. The typical off-peak service of trains per hour (tph) is: London Bus routes 248, 346, 347 and 370 serve the station. Upminster station Upminster is an interchange station serving the town of Upminster in the London Borough
History of the London Underground half of the 19th century, London had grown greatly and the development of a commuting population arriving by train each day led to traffic congestion with carts, cabs and omnibuses filling the roads. By 1850 there were seven railway termini located around the urban centre of London and the concept of an underground railway linking the City of London with these stations was first proposed in the 1830s. Charles Pearson, Solicitor to the City of London, was a leading promoter of several schemes, and he contributed to the creation of the City Terminus Company to build such a railway from