page_title: Bow Road tube station
section_title: Design and layout
hierarchical_section_title: Bow Road tube station / Design and layout
caption_attribution_description: English: Bow Road LT Station. View eastward at platform level; LT District (and Metroplotian - Hammersmith &amp; City) Lines, West and Central London - Barking and Upminster.
context_page_description: Bow Road is a London Underground station located on Bow Road in Bow, London, England. It is on the District and Hammersmith & City lines. The station is interlinked as an out of station interchange with Bow Church station on the Docklands Light Railway which is about 300 m away via Bow Road. The two stations are classed as a single station for ticketing purposes as well as on tube maps but both managed separately.
context_section_description: The station building is Grade II listed since 27 September 1973. Red bricks form the exterior facade, featuring stone eaves cornice and brick blocking course. The structure is topped with a slate roof, and has round arched doors. The doors are finished with fanlights, with four windows arranged alternately. An enclosed footbridge hangs across the platforms sheltered with canopies, both of which are made of wood. The canopies are barrel-vaulted, supported by cast iron beams and wall brackets, and hexagonal cast iron pillars. The pillars are arranged in line, following the curvature of the platforms. There are 12 pillars on one platform, while the other has 14.
  Bow Road station has two platforms, and marks the point where westbound trains from Upminster and Barking enter a tunnel; the gradient of the tunnel approach, which is to the east of the station, is 1 in 28, the steepest on the tube network. The station platforms are below street level, where the western end of the platforms is in tunnel while the eastern end is in an open cutting. Other stations on the District Line are designed in a similar way, such as High Street Kensington and Sloane Square.
caption: View eastward at platform level in 1961
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