Cambridge Heath

I could probably make more use of this station, but…
It’s in a peculiar poky corner and is a bit grubby though not as bad as it used to be. It feels somewhat unsafe, especially when the heavy drinkers are congregating outside. There’s a strip club opposite too.
The station is unstaffed and while there’s a National Express ticket machine, you’ll have to go down the road to top up your Oyster card.

This is a nice station with no ticket office, a ticket machine and oyster card readers.
There is a little café underneath the station which seems to be constantly changing owners, but is sometimes nice to wait in.
Trains come every 15 minutes and are now generally on time.
Also the sign used to say ‘You are here’ and point to cambridge but has now thankfully been changed (i think) and will no longer confuse touristy types who are looking for wonderful universities rather than strange cafes and ‘gentlemans clubs’.
Overall, a lovely station (ish)

I love this train line, I love that I can get from Bethnal Green to Stoke Newington if timed correctly in 5 minutes (the trains come on average every 20 minutes but I always seem to have just missed one). The crowd is rambunctious to say the least, proper east London blood mixed in with the odd commuter heading to or from Liverpool Street. But one thing that leaves little to be desired is Cambridge Heath Station. Times being hard there are never any staff and the ticket office always has its shutters down so Cambridge Heath becomes the perfect urinal, homeless shelter and if far from private, great place to shoot up to an audience of 5.30 home comers apparently. But walk on by, turn a blind eye, hold your breath stepping over the puddles of piss and get onto the platform and take a look around and the great 360 view of East London, it’s rare opportunity to get up this high and get the view in all directions. And just think, all for a quid or free if you like to live life on the edge, which I’d never encourage