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{{Short description|London Overground line}}
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In February 2024, TfL announced a re-branding of this London Overground service as the '''Liberty line''';<ref>{{Cite web |last=Matters |first=Transport for London {{!}} Every Journey |title=London
|first=Ross|last=Lydall|website=London Standard|date=20 November 2024|accessdate=20 November 2024}}</ref> Prior to renaming, it was labelled in [[Transport for London]] timetables as the ''Romford to Upminster route''.<ref name="tfl.gov.uk"></ref>
The line is [[Single-track railway|single-track]] throughout, [[Railway electrification in Great Britain|electrified]] at {{25 kV 50 Hz}}, has a [[Loading gauge#Great Britain|loading gauge]] of W6, and a maximum speed of {{convert|30|mph}}.<ref name=NRR7/> {{Asof|December 2022}}, services are operated by [[London Overground]], with two trains per hour in each direction. The timetabled journey time from one terminus to the other is nine minutes. It is completely separated from the rest of the London Overground, but has connections to the [[Elizabeth line]] and [[Great Eastern Main Line]] at Romford and the [[London Underground]] [[District
==History==
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At {{stn|Upminster}} a small engine shed was initially provided in the area which is now occupied by the underground depot,{{clarify|date=November 2024|reason=The Underground depot is 1km away in Cranham. Do you mean the signal box?}} and the station was substantially rebuilt in the early 1930s to accommodate the [[District Railway]] extension with a separate Grays-facing bay platform being added at this time.{{sfn|Jackson|1979|p=632}} The connection west of the station to the LT&S main line remained after the works, but was severed in 1968 with a further rebuilding of the station.<ref>{{harvnb|Kay|1997|p=81}}</ref> There were plans to link the line from platform six at Upminster to the reception tracks of the [[London Underground]] depot there in order to enable the transfer of [[London Underground D78 Stock]] units onto the main line to be hauled away by diesel locomotive for refurbishment at the Ilford depot. These plans were scrapped when the refurbishment work was transferred to Wakefield in Yorkshire and the transfer was done by road.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trainweb.org/districtdave/html/d78_stock_programme.html |title=D78 Stock Programme |access-date=28 June 2011 }}</ref> The point-work for this connection, which was half installed, is still visible from the eastern end of platform five at Upminster.
There is only one intermediate station, at [[Emerson Park railway station|Emerson Park]]. In the year 2017/18 there were over 300,000 passenger journeys to/from Emerson Park, more that three times the number 10 years previously, but still a small enough number for the line to come top of the list of least busy Overground stations.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://citymonitor.ai/transport/romford-upminster-romford-again-ode-transport-london-s-most-obscure-branch-line-4732 |title= Romford to Upminster to Romford again: An ode to Transport for
In the mid-1980s the line was [[Railway electrification in Great Britain|electrified]] at [[25 kV AC]]. Electrification of the line saw an end to years of speculation about its future.
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* {{cite magazine| last = Jackson| first = Alan A| date = December 1979| title = Romford to Grays| magazine = Railway World| publisher = Ian Allan}}
* {{cite book |title=The London Tilbury and Southend Railway Vol 2 |first=Peter |last=Kay |isbn=1-899890-19-X |year=1997 }}
* {{cite book |last= Oakley |first= Michael |title=Eastern Region South |publisher= Bradford Barton |series= Diesel Enthusiast's Pocket Guide |volume= 1 |year= 1978 |location= Truro |isbn= 0
==Further reading==
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