Barkingside (London Underground)

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Station building
Platforms in 1962

Barkingside is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Redbridge . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 4 on a dead end street called Station Road. In 2014, 1.35 million passengers used this station served by the Central Line .

history

On May 1, 1903, the Great Eastern Railway opened a suburban railway from Ilford via Hainault to Woodford , the so-called Fairlop Loop . Due to insufficient demand, the stop was closed from May 22, 1916 to June 30, 1919. In 1923 the line became the property of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).

As part of the New Works Program of the London Passenger Transport Board of 1935, most of the route was to be transferred to the Central Line to relieve the subsequent main rail line towards Liverpool Street . Construction work began in 1938, but had to be stopped by 1946 after the outbreak of World War II . The last LNER train pulled by steam locomotives ran on November 29, 1947. U-Bahn operations began six months later on May 31, 1948. Empty U-Bahn trains had passed the station since December 14, 1947, to get to the Hainault workshop on the newly electrified route.

Only a few changes have been made to the station building itself. It is made of bricks and has a domed roof supported by stitch beams. The canopies on the two platforms are still decorated with the Great Eastern Railway logo. The station has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 2011 .

Web links

Commons : Barkingside (London Underground)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / content.tfl.gov.uk
  2. ↑ a b Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 3, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Redbridge Station. In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, accessed January 9, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 9 ″  N , 0 ° 5 ′ 19.1 ″  E