West Ham Railway Station
West Ham is a train station in the London Borough of Newham . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 3 on Manor Road. This is where suburban trains and the London Underground stop . In 2014, 3.51 million subway passengers used the station, plus 5.308 million rail passengers.
investment
The facility is built above ground and in the form of a tower train station. On the lower level there are two central platforms in north-south direction, which are used by the Jubilee Line and the Docklands Light Railway . On the upper level are the two central platforms of the District Line and the Hammersmith & City Line, which are arranged in a west-east direction, as well as those of the c2c railway company on the route to the southeast of Essex . Although the station was once built by a railroad company, its operation is the responsibility of London Underground.
history
In 1858 the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SE) opened a direct route between Bow and Barking (previously the trains had made a detour via Stratford). However, no trains stopped in West Ham. The Whitechapel and Bow Railway , a joint venture of LT&SE and the Metropolitan District Railway (predecessor of the District Line) built a second double track parallel to the existing line. West Ham station opened on February 1, 1901, but initially only LT&SE trains stopped. District Line trains first used the station on June 2, 1902.
On November 2, 1924, the station was renamed West Ham (Manor Road) . On March 30, 1936, trains of the Metropolitan Line stopped for the first time , the eastern branch of which has been served by the Hammersmith & City Line since 1988. From September 7, 1940 to August 11, 1941, the station was closed due to damage from air raids. On January 1, 1969, the station's name was changed back to West Ham when London Underground took over operations from British Rail .
Nine people were injured on March 15, 1976 when Vincent Donnelly, an IRA assassin, set off a bomb on a passing train. The train driver Julius Stephen tried to pursue the assassin, but was shot dead.
In 1846 the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway was built in a north-south direction . Trains ran on the lower level in West Ham but did not stop there for more than 130 years. As part of a regeneration program, British Rail began passenger traffic on the North London Line in 1979 , which required the construction of a new platform. At the end of the 1990s, the station was expanded and completely modernized according to plans by the architects van Heyningen and Haward , with an additional platform on the lower level. The first section of the Jubilee Line extension in the former port area went into operation on May 14, 1999. On December 9, 2006, the section of the North London Line south of Stratford was closed. Instead, on August 31, 2011, the Docklands Light Railway, which operates at a much faster pace, took over the section to Canning Town .
In 2011 the station's capacity was temporarily expanded to cope with the rush during the 2012 Summer Olympics . A new connection was created to the Greenway footpath and bike path , which leads directly to the Olympic Park . This required the construction of a staircase and footbridge from the east end of the District Line platform to Manor Road. The footbridge was removed again in mid-October 2012, but the foundations remained for a possible future expansion of the station.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ COUNTS - 2014 - annual entries & exits. (PDF, 44 kB) (No longer available online.) Transport for London, 2015, archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; accessed on December 29, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on December 29, 2017 (English).
- ↑ a b District Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Peter Kay (Ed.): The London, Tilbury & Southend Railway, vol. 2 . 1997, ISBN 978-1-899890-19-4 , pp. 113 .
- ↑ On this day - 1976: Tube driver shot dead. BBC, March 15, 2005, accessed January 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Holden's Legacy. (No longer available online.) Royal Institute of British Architects, archived from the original on September 29, 2012 ; accessed on January 4, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jubilee Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 4, 2013 .
- ^ Docklands Light Railway. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 4, 2013 .
- ^ West Ham station gets Olympic footbridge. (No longer available online.) TRL, December 4, 2009, archived from the original on May 5, 2013 ; accessed on January 4, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| Previous station | Transport for London | Next station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bromley-by-Bow | Hammersmith & City Line | Plaistow | ||
| District Line | ||||
| Canning Town | Jubilee Line | Stratford | ||
| Abbey Road | Docklands Light Railway | Star Lane | ||
| Previous station | National Rail | Next train station | ||
| Limehouse |
c2c London, Tilbury and Southend Railway |
Barking | ||
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 43 ″ N , 0 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ E