The LBER had wished to extend its trains towards Stratford, but relations with the Eastern Counties Railway were poor and they would not allow a physical junction to be constructed.

In 1858 the London Tilbury and Southend Railway opened its Barking extension joining the LBER at Gas Factory Junction.

Between 1866 and 1922, Burdett Road was simultaneously owned by the London and Blackwall, leased to the Great Eastern, and had services operated by both the GER and LTSR.

The London and North Eastern Railway took over operation of the station in 1923 following the grouping which was also when the LBER ceased to legally exist.

The nearby Mile End station on the London Underground, which opened in 1902, proved more popular than Burdett Road.

With the demands placed on the railway system by the Second World War and bomb damage in December 1940 saw the station closed for a week for emergency repairs.

[6][7] The surrounding area was heavily redeveloped after the war to make way for Mile End Park, and today little trace remains of Burdett Road station; the westbound platform space survives but is derelict.