Editing Gospel Oak to Barking line (section)

=== Services ===
The line carries both goods and passenger traffic. It is owned by [[Network Rail]], with the exception of the Barking Riverside branch which is owned by [[Transport for London]]. 

Passenger services on the line are operated by [[Arriva Rail London]] as part of the [[London Overground|London Overground network]] under contract to TfL. There are four trains per hour in each direction, running from around 06:30 to 23:30 on Monday to Saturday, and around 06:30 to 22:00 on Sundays.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/gospel-oak-to-barking.pdf |title = Gospel-Oak-Barking-May2011 |publisher = [[Transport for London]] |year = 2011 |access-date = 25 May 2011 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110605052459/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/gospel-oak-to-barking.pdf |archive-date = 5 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35841733 |title = Arriva wins £1.5bn London Overground contract |publisher = [[BBC News]] |date = 18 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url = http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Rail-News/tfl-confirm-london-overground-contract-with-arriva-signed |title = TfL confirm London Overground contract with Arriva signed |magazine = Railway Technology Magazine |date = 18 April 2016}}</ref> There is a single weekday morning service from [[Woodgrange Park railway station|Woodgrange Park]] to [[Willesden Junction]], calling at all intermediate stations except for Gospel Oak.

The line is heavily used by freight as it provides part of an orbital route around London, connecting with many radial routes and the [[North London Line]] at Gospel Oak. Freight services are operated by [[DB Cargo UK]], [[GB Railfreight]] and [[Freightliner Group|Freightliner]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

Other services use parts of the line infrequently, or as a diversionary route, but do not stop at most stations:
* [[c2c]] operates a few services on the east end of the line through [[Woodgrange Park railway station|Woodgrange Park]]
* [[London Overground]] runs a single Saturday service timetabled to connect Tottenham South Junction and [[Seven Sisters railway station|Seven Sisters]] on Lea Valley routes passing through, but not calling at, [[South Tottenham station]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.psul4all.free-online.co.uk/2019.html |title=PSUL 2019 |access-date=12 January 2019 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803221035/http://www.psul4all.free-online.co.uk/2019.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The line has an active users' group, "The Barking–Gospel Oak Rail User Group".<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.barking-gospeloak.org.uk/ |title = The Barking – Gospel Oak Rail User Group |publisher = Barking-gospeloak.org.uk |access-date = 11 July 2010}}</ref>

==== Renaming ====
In July 2023, Sadiq Khan, Head of [[Transport for London|TfL]] and Mayor Of London announced that it would be giving each of the six Overground services unique names, relevant to the "historical contributions by minority groups" of the area the service passes through, by the end of the following year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Naming London Overground lines |url=https://www.tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/improvements-and-projects/naming-overground |access-date=11 February 2024 |website=Transport for London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=15 August 2023 |title=London Overground lines to be given unique names |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-66609039 |access-date=11 February 2024 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> 

On 15 February 2024, it was confirmed that the service using the Gospel Oak to Barking line would be named the ''Suffragette line'', to honour East London's major contribution to the Suffragette movement. Barking activist [[Barking, London#Religious Establishment|Annie Huggett]], who died in 1996 at the age of 104, was known as “The Last Suffragette” due to her great age.<ref>Barking and Dagenham Post - https://www.barkinganddagenhampost.co.uk/news/20922886.post-memories-womens-centre-named-barking-suffragette-annie-huggett/</ref> The line will be coloured green on the updated network map; green, along with white and purple, was one of the colours of the Suffragette movement.<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 February 2024 |title=London Overground: New names for its six lines revealed |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68296483 |access-date=15 February 2024 |work=BBC News}}</ref>