Bow Road station was re-sited in 1892 to a site 3 miles 7 chains (5 km) down-line from Fenchurch Street.

The line that the station was located on, called the Bow curve, was opened by the London and Blackwall Extension Railway (LBER) on 2 April 1849.

[4][Note 1] The relationship between the two railway companies was poor at this time so the junction was not built and services on the newly opened branch lasted until 26 September 1850 when the original station was closed.

[Note 3] It handled domestic coal, bricks, building materials and general merchandise and was equipped (in GER days) with a five-ton capacity crane, seven-ton cart weighbridge and a small goods lock-up.

[Note 4] Essentially the GER had been operating two services from Bow to Fenchurch Street since 1876 which given the increasingly busy nature of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (as well as freight) was almost certainly a move to relieve congestion as well as save costs.

In the opposite direction the first train to Fenchurch Street departed Bow Road at 5:49 a.m. and the last at 9:30 p.m.[12] The new station was taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) after the 1923 grouping.

It was then decided to withdraw passenger services from the line and Bow Road station was permanently closed on 7 November 1949.

The line Bow Road station stood on, between Gas Factory Junction on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR) and Bow Junction on the Great Eastern Main Line (GEML), was reduced to a single track circa 1986 to allow the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Poplar-Stratford branch to share the alignment north of the station.

A study of aerial photographs shows the platforms and stairwell structures intact on the viaduct, and the station building is still in commercial use on Bow Road.