Rectory Road railway station
Rectory Road is a station on the Weaver line of the London Overground, located in the West Hackney area of the London Borough of Hackney, east London. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is between and stations. Its three-letter station code is REC and it is in London fare zone 2.
History
The ticket office, street buildings, staircases and platform shelters were all built in the mid-1980s in works funded by the Greater London Council. These elaborate structures were very different from the low-maintenance changes further up the line at the same time, and feature the British Rail logo worked into the brickwork at street-level.In May 2015 the station and all services that call there were transferred from Abellio Greater Anglia operation to London Overground. The station was also added to the Tube map.
Services
All services at Rectory Road are operated as part of the Weaver line of the London Overground using EMUs.The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
- 4 tph to London Liverpool Street
- 2 tph to
- 2 tph to