Upminster Bridge Ticket office closes forever Soon

It is a bit busier than that ! But it is probably the quietest on the line with Upney, Bromley-By-Bow, Stamford Brook and Ravenscourt Park, not far behind.

A lot of journeys are against the flow though, passengers making there way to/from Upminster to use C2C into the city. You can fill the back car to standing in the peak at Upminster with passengers for just Up Bridge and Hornchurch.

No idea how busy the ticket office is though.

I was talking to a CSA at Hornchurch yesterday, he was spitting bullets, apparently full time CSA posts at Hornchurch were being replaced by part time ones and he was having to apply for a full time position at Elm Park

Well i tell you something alot of people use this station to get to london.
Otherwise it's an up hill walk or a 1.50 bus ticket.

I use it to go to london all the time and during the rush hour loads of people use it to go home!

I looked at the figures and a few years ago it had over 800,000 passengers a year

Cheers
James

Better than Blake Hall - allegedly 6 a day! Still one of the quieter District stations though.

Actually Upminster Bridge is very busy at School Times as well. Several schools in the area as well as the London Borough of Havering 6th form college.

I think that area has one of the greatest concentration of TfL school bus routes too.

I would never see that, thankfully Schooltime is a bit early for me to be out and about.

Upminster Bridge has closed. I pretty sure it was closed on Thursday 2nd, but I was in a bit of a rush and didn't look properly. Today there were posters up saying it is closed.

I see Upminster Br. has more than twice the passengers of Chesham, and that has its own branch line!

Ah, well that's true - we probably would ;D That said, Chesham's passenger numbers are based on 2 trains an hour, so aren't bad really. I suspect many branch lines around the country would be delighted with that sort of usage.

Ican think of several stations where the passengers would be delighted with two trains a DAY! ;D

Is there still a mosaic of an inverted swastika on the ticket hall floor ?

Before a certain German political party took it over and turned it round the Swastika was a good luck symbol.

John

I think the version on the floor is still the 'lucky' version. My father has told me that many historians still question why it was reversed by the Nazi's to the unlucky symbol....

Regards

Christopher

Typical stupid people... it's not surprising at all is it?

Was it an actual band playing, or just a recording? If it is the latter, then this will probably be to deter the teenagers etc from hanging around, creating nusance.