Barking, The Station c.1960
Photo ref:
B440068
Photo ref:
B440068
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Memories of Barking, the Station c1960
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As a school-boy I had a job working for W.H.Smith at Barking Station. I started when I was twelve on a paper round, but after a short while the shop manager, Albert Hedges, decided I could work one of the platform sub-stalls. This was really quite exciting for a youngster, as the station was one of the busiest in the UK - with the District Line tube, and Fenchurch Street traffic up and down to Southend ...see more
I remember the old Barking Station and loving the smell of the steam trains; standing on the bridge and watching the train from (Tilbury or Southend?) disappearing in a cloud of steam. Wonderful.
Old Barking station was all Victorian cast steel pillars with elaborate decoration and dark wood if I remember rightly and an enormous clock, which is in the National Railway Museum in York.
The new station was state of ...see more
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