The Grade II listed bus shelter designed by Oliver Hill opened on 6 July 1949.

Lifts were fully installed at Newbury Park in November 2018 to provide step-free access to the station, approximately 10 years after TfL abandoned the project.

It was built to serve the growing neighbourhood of Newbury Park where the earliest settlement, Birkbeck Estate, dates back to the 1880s.

[24] This involved the construction of a new tube tunnel from Leytonstone via Redbridge which surfaced at Newbury Park to connect with the lines of the existing Ilford to Woodford branch.

[22] During the war, a part of the constructed tunnel system was used as an underground aircraft munitions factory, and was used as an air raid shelter.

[25][26][note 3] Steam train services serving Newbury Park were permanently suspended after 29 November 1947.

[17][28][note 4] Lord Ashfield, former chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board, and local dignitaries attended the opening ceremony of the extension.

[30][32] Newbury Park's most prominent feature is the bus shelter connected to the station entrance, designed by Oliver Hill in 1937, and opened on 6 July 1949.

Distinguished by a copper-covered barrel-vaulted roof, the structure is a Grade II listed building and won a Festival of Britain architectural award in 1951.

[8][41] The LNER station building, which looked very similar to Chigwell (further north on the Loop),[21] was demolished in 1956 to facilitate widening of the adjacent A12 Eastern Avenue.

[42][note 6] The station features GER insignia just beneath the platform canopies,[44] and has a London Transport canteen adjoining the entrance.

[52][53] The typical Night tube service, in trains per hour as of 2018 is:[54] London Buses routes 66, 296 and 396 serve the station directly.