Notes: The huge Bow Station was opened on 26th March 1870 replacing a smaller station, built in 1850.

At track level, Bow Station had three platforms (two side platforms and a large island platform), south of the station there was a three way junction with the North London Line continuing to its terminus at Poplar. The west side of the station was shared with the Great Eastern service into Fenchurch Street with through trains to Southend and a shuttle service to Plaistow using the east platforms. The large booking office (incorporating waiting and refreshment rooms) was at street level and above it a large concert hall 100' in length and 40' wide.

The hall was first used by The Bow & Bromley Institute, a cultural and educational centre opened to the public, where lecturers and classical music were held. The hall later passed through a number of users. In 1887 it became part of the East London Technical College, then in 1911 it was used by The Salvation Army. In 1930, it became the Embassy Billiard Hall.

The thirty feet high Bryant & May Testimonial Fountain was erected in front of the station in 1872. It was paid for by the employees of the firm and commemorated their success in defeating a proposed tax on matches.

From 1892 a covered way was opened giving passengers a direct interchange with the adjacent Bow Road Station. This interchange was taken out of use during WW1 and never reinstated. After WW1 traffic on the line was in decline due to the improvements in tram and bus services and the station was eventually closed bat the end of WW2 after the station received some bomb damage.

However, after the war, the hall continued to be used. It became the Bow Palais, a dance hall, famous for its Irish Bands, Irish Dancing and Irish Nurses from nearby St. Andrew’s Hospital. In the 1950s the dance hall changed its name to the 'Emerald Ballroom' and was badly damaged by fire in 1956. This led to the hall being demolished but the lower part of the station was retained and used as a parcel office until early 1965, when it closed.

By 1966 the east tracks had been lifted and and the west platforms were partially removed leaving only the truncated booking hall and the station masters house on the London bound west platform. These structures remained until November 1975 when the site was cleared. Initially one line into Poplar remained but this too was eventually lifted and the site was soon overgrown and derelict. The station site was cleared in 1985 and the last remnants of the platforms were demolished during the construction of the Docklands Light Railway which utilised part of the old line to Poplar. A new station, Bow Church was built on the south side of Bow Road and all that is left of the once impressive Bow Station is a small section of wall behind the forecourt of a car-hire firm now occupying the site of the roadside building.