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Stratford
Opened in 1839 by the Eastern Counties Railway, and now the east London interchange where the Elizabeth line, Greater Anglia, the Mildmay line, the Central and Jubilee lines and the DLR all meet.
18Platforms
1839Opened
51.5 millionEntries and exits (2024-25)
7thBusiest station in Britain (2024-25)
Platforms 18
Seen from above, to scale: the platforms, tracks and the station building’s outline (the grey line) from OpenStreetMap, the lines running roughly north to south. North is marked top left, and the scale bottom left. Point at a platform for its number and length.
Facts
- Opened
- 20 June 1839, by the Eastern Counties Railway
- Platforms
- 18: 1 to 17, with 3a and 10a and no platform 7 (National Rail’s 2024 map); main line, Overground and Elizabeth line above, Jubilee line and DLR below
- Routes
- The Great Eastern Main Line; the West Anglia Main Line; the Elizabeth line; the Mildmay line
- Underground
- Central Jubilee
- Operators
- Elizabeth line, Greater Anglia and London Overground
- Other connections
- The Docklands Light Railway; Stratford International is a separate station nearby
- Managed by
- The Elizabeth line
- Listed
- No listing found
- Interchanges
- 4.87 million (2024-25)
unverified Some of these figures haven’t yet been checked against an official source or a published history. What’s in doubt ↓
Trains
- Class 345 Elizabeth line
- Class 720 Aventra Greater Anglia
- Class 378 Capitalstar London Overground
The trains the operators run here, as the sources give them.
History 8
- The Eastern Counties Railway opens Stratford station.
- The Northern and Eastern Railway opens its line from Broxbourne to join the Eastern Counties line at Stratford.
- The Central line starts serving Stratford.
- The Docklands Light Railway starts serving Stratford.
- The Jubilee line reaches Stratford, in a new station designed by Wilkinson Eyre.
- TfL takes over the Liverpool Street to Shenfield stopping services, running them as TfL Rail.
- The Elizabeth line’s central section opens, and the Shenfield services are rebranded as the Elizabeth line.
- TfL announces the new London Overground line names; the Stratford to Richmond and Clapham Junction route becomes the Mildmay line.
Sources 15
Show the 15 sources from Transport for London, Wikimedia Commons, National Rail and 7 more
- Table 1410: passenger entries and exits and interchanges by station, April 2024 to March 2025 (with each station's facility owner) Office of Rail and Road, 4 December 2025entries and exits, interchanges, rank, facility owner
- 720584 at Stratford station.jpg (photograph, Robert Cutter, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 21 February 2026a Class 720 at Stratford (Greater Anglia livery)
- Unit 345007 passes Stratford 7th July 2017 08.jpg (photograph, Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons, 7 July 2017a Class 345 at Stratford (Elizabeth line)
- 378 205 Stratford B 260124.jpg (photograph, CC BY 2.0) kitmasterbloke, via Wikimedia Commons, 27 January 2024a Class 378 at Stratford (Overground)
- Stratford (London) station information National Rail, accessed 20 October 2026who manages it, step-free access
- Stratford station map (upper and lower level), July 2024 National Rail, July 2024platform numbers
- Stratford Railway Station Grace’s Guide, last edited 3 February 2014opening date and company, Northern and Eastern Railway 1840
- Jubilee Line (Stratford Regional Station and Stratford Market Depot) WilkinsonEyre, accessed 20 October 2026architect, the Jubilee line station
- Stratford Underground Station (stop 940GZZLUSTD) Transport for London, accessed 20 October 2026Underground, DLR, Elizabeth line and Overground connections, Central line platforms 3 and 6
- Stratford (London) Rail Station (stop 910GSTFD) Transport for London, accessed 20 October 2026lines serving the station
- New Tube map marks launch of TfL Rail Rail Technology Magazine, 22 May 2015TfL Rail from 31 May 2015
- London’s schoolchildren turn Paddington to Abbey Wood purple to celebrate the opening of Elizabeth line Transport for London (press release), May 2022Elizabeth line opening, 24 May 2022
- London’s Overground lines to be given new names and colours in historic change to capital’s transport network Transport for London (press release), 15 February 2024Mildmay line name, February 2024
- Stratford station Wikipedia, accessed 20 October 2026Central, DLR and Jubilee dates, platform numbers by line, c2c (leads only; see unverified)
- Platforms, tracks and station outlines of Stratford, Clapham Junction, Wimbledon and Finsbury Park (Overpass API extracts) OpenStreetMap contributors, 20 October 2026the plan
Where the sources disagree:
- Platform count not given: Wikipedia says 19 platforms, 17 in use, but no operator source states a count for the National Rail, Overground and Elizabeth line platforms alone, and National Rail’s map shows numbers 1 to 17 with 3A and 10A.
- Platform allocation by line (Greater Anglia 9, 10, 10A, 11, 12; Overground 1 and 2; DLR 4A/4B and 16/17; Jubilee 13 to 15; Elizabeth line 5 and 8) is from Wikipedia only. TfL’s stop page confirms only Central line platforms 3 (westbound) and 6 (eastbound). A search summary of a TfL accessibility document suggested Elizabeth line platforms 3 and 4, which conflicts with Wikipedia and with TfL’s own Central platform 3, so the Elizabeth line’s platforms are not given.
- Central line start (4 December 1946), DLR start (31 August 1987) and Jubilee line start (14 May 1999) are from Wikipedia only; Wilkinson Eyre’s page confirms the Jubilee line station and its architect but gives no date.
- c2c as an operator at Stratford is from Wikipedia (limited off-peak services to Shoeburyness) and a July 2026 disruption notice seen in search; no c2c or National Rail page was opened to confirm the current pattern. No c2c stock is listed under trains for this reason.
- Greater Anglia’s intercity Class 745 trains are not listed under trains because no source opened confirms they call at Stratford. The Class 720, 345 and 378 entries rest on dated photographs of those units at Stratford already registered in sources.json, not on a timetable.
- The routes list (Great Eastern and West Anglia main lines, and the Elizabeth line and Mildmay line destinations) rests on the Wikipedia infobox, TfL’s Mildmay timetable page (Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford) and general knowledge of the network; the National Rail page opened does not list routes or operators.
- The Elizabeth line’s through running from Shenfield to Paddington began on 6 November 2022 (from a search summary of a TfL governance paper, not opened); only the 24 May 2022 opening is in the history.
- Stratford International’s opening date, distance from the main station and operator were not checked; it has its own National Rail page.
- The 2007 DLR high-level platforms and the 10 July 2024 south-west entrance are from Wikipedia only.
- Whether any part of the station is listed was not settled: no Historic England entry turned up, but the full National Heritage List was not searched directly.
- The platform count (18) is counted from National Rail's station map; no source states it as a number.
- c2c is listed as calling at Stratford by Wikipedia and a search summary only, so it is left out of the operators.
- 4 December 1946: The Central line starts serving Stratford: the date is from Wikipedia only.
- 31 August 1987: The Docklands Light Railway starts serving Stratford: the date is from Wikipedia only.
- 14 May 1999: The Jubilee line reaches Stratford, in a new station designed by Wilkinson Eyre: the date is from Wikipedia only.