Bow Works (North London Railway)

Bow Works was the principal locomotive works of the North London Railway from 1853, located at Bow in east London. The works built and maintained the dense suburban tank engine fleet that worked the NLR's intensive London-area services through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Locomotive engineering at Bow was conducted under William Adams (Locomotive Superintendent 1854–1873), J. C. Park and Henry J. Pryce. After the NLR's working agreement with the LNWR (1909) and absorption into the LMS at the 1923 Grouping, Bow continued as a heavy-overhaul shop until closure in 1960. The works site is now occupied by housing and the new Bromley-by-Bow Underground depot of the Hammersmith & City Line.