Peter Masson wrote:

From what I can make out of an old (1915) drawing, what are now platforms 10
and 10a served the old slow lines, and what is now 9 served the down fast.
The up fast was a through line with no platform, but there was an up
passenger loop served by a platform more or less on the site of present 6/8.
This was further east than the other platforms, which were of course in the
fork between the Colchester and Cambridge lines, as west of this platform
there were connections to the goods depot and a double- (or even
triple-)track spur from the Ilford to the North Woolwich direction.

That sounds like the map/drawing that I've seen; it used to be on sale
at the North Woolwich Old Station Museum. They also sold a small
booklet in which there was a photoraph of a Diesel locomotive coming
off the Eastern spur at low-level. the track was behind the buildings
on platform 2, and the trackbed was still visible until fairly recent
times. I don't think there were ever platforms on these lines.

Don't forget the fourth route from the North Woolwich/Beckton/Gallions
direction, the one which diverged from the present one at Fork
Junction, just North of where the line passes under the high level, and
ran through the centre of Stratford Works.

Two short bay platforms are apparent, a down bay as the opposite face of the
up passsenger loop platform, and a bay, more of a dock really, in the fork
between platforms 10a and 11. It's not at all clear where the main entrance
and ticket office were - the station was served by Station Road, leading
from Angel Lane into the fork between the Colchester and Cambridge lines,
and by Station Street, leading from the High Street to the south side of the
station.

In understanding this, it needs to be remembered that in 1949 Ilford flyover
was built, and west of there what had been the slow lines became the Main
Lines, and what had been the Fast Lines became the Electric (or Slow) Lines,
which served the new platforms at Stratford. It's also worth remembering
that, until LT took over the Loughton lines, platforms 11-13 were served by
an intensive steam suburban service from Liverpool Street and Fenchurch
Street to Loughton, Epping and Ongar (well, never that intensive out to
Ongar), while trains to Newbury Park and Chigwell diverged between Ilford
and Seven Kings.

So much has changed since the War in this area; the takeover of the
Loughton line by the Central, and the extension of that like from
Liverpool street, the closure of the Beckton and Gallions branches,
also the Silvertown tramway, and the old route over the swing bridge.
The removal otf the old connection to Ilord, The withdrawal of the
Broad Street to Poplar service, the closure of the Palace Gates branch,
the re-opening of the line through Hackney to passengers, the joining
of what had been parts of the Broad Street - Poplar and Palace Gates -
North Woolwich services to the Richmond service west of Dalston when
Broad Street closed. The closure of the docks lines, the closure, and
partial re-instatement, of one pair of tracks between Camden and
Dalston, The coming of the DLR and the JLE. I first went to North
Woolwich just after the Camden Road service was introduced; you can't
recognise the area today.