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Bethnal Green
Station entrance
Bethnal Green Location of Bethnal Green in Greater London
Location	Bethnal Green
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Managed by	London Overground
Station code	BET
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
National Rail annual entry and exit
2004–05	0.448 million[1]
2005–06	0.446 million[1]
2006–07	0.489 million[1]
2007–08	0.564 million[1]
2008–09	0.545 million[1]
2009–10	0.516 million[1]
2010–11	0.617 million[1]
Key dates
1872	Opened
Other information
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°31′23″N 0°03′32″W / 51.523°N 0.059°W / 51.523; -0.059

Bethnal Green railway station is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Bethnal Green in east London. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by London Overground, on the West Anglia Main Line, and it is in Travelcard Zone 2. The station was formerly called Bethnal Green Junction until Junction was removed from the name and was also served by trains on the Great Eastern Main Line. It should not be confused with Bethnal Green tube station nearby.

The typical off-peak service is:

• 8tph (trains per hour) to London Liverpool Street
• 4tph to Chingford
• 2tph to Cheshunt
• 2tph to Enfield Town

Oyster card (pay as you go) on National Rail is accepted at the station from 2 January 2008.

In 1872 the Great Eastern Railway opened a new branch to Hackney Downs to serve this branch a new junction was built to the west of Cambridge Heath Road.

It also replaced a station called Mile End which was located on the eastern side of Cambridge Heath Road with a station immediately to the west of the new junction called Bethnal Green Junction.

It served both of the Great Eastern Railway routes and had four platforms. In 1946 this station stopped serving the Great Eastern main line to Shenfield and two platforms were closed, though the remains of the Shenfield down platform are still visible.

The Shenfield up (London-bound) platform was demolished and the tracks rearranged, coinciding with the swapping of services from the former fast tracks onto the former slow (resulting in the arrangement we see today). It is not known for certain when the station's name was changed, possibly when it ceased serving the Shenfield line.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bethnal Green railway station.

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  Platforms looking east
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  Platforms looking west
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  Great Eastern main line looking east
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  Great Eastern main line looking west
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  Bethnal Green East Junction
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  Platform signage, with NEEA logo

• Train times and station information for Bethnal Green railway station from National Rail

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