Mr Thant wrote:

The user's group has good detail on the plans - apparently staffing
starts on November 11th:
http://www.barking-gospeloak.org.uk/news.htm

There are no signs of huts going up, but they have installed ticket
machines everywhere I've seen.

They've also got early announcements - yesterday at Crouch Hill one said to
report problems at the station to a member of staff. None was anywhere to be
seen...