Blake Hall Underground Station
Blake Hall is a closed London Underground station on the Central Line east of Epping . It was in operation from 1865 to 1981 and is located in the hamlet of Greensted in the Epping Forest district of Essex . It was named after Blake Hall , the representative residence of local large landowners.
history
The station was opened on April 24, 1865 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER), as part of the new section between Loughton and Ongar . The landowner had it built in return for running the route across his property. It initially served mainly as a goods loading point to transport products from the surrounding farms to London .
From 1923 the line was owned by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). The single-track line was operated east of Epping from September 25, 1949 as part of the Central Line by British Rail steam shuttle trains on behalf of London Underground. On November 18, 1957, electrification was also completed here. However, the section to Ongar was always little frequented. There were only shuttle trains with two or three cars, and passengers had to change trains in Epping. The fact that the regular underground trains did not run the entire route was also due to the fact that the power supply on the Epping – Ongar section was not sufficient.
Blake Hall was by far the least used station on the underground network: on average, it was only frequented by six passengers per day. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the trains only ran during rush hour , because the Greater London Council had canceled the subsidies for sections outside their area of influence. The station was closed on October 31, 1981, and the unprofitable section of the route closed on September 30, 1994. Since October 10, 2004, the Epping Ongar Railway has run a museum railroad on weekends . The trains don't stop at Blake Hall, however, as the station is now a residential building. In addition, the station has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 1984 . In the meantime, however, the platforms have been rebuilt and a roundel of the London Underground has been set up.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 2, 2013 .
- ↑ Desmond F. Croome, AA Jackson: Rails through the Clay . Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow 1981, ISBN 1-85414-151-1 .
- ^ Charles Edward Lee: Seventy Years of the Central . Ed .: London Transport. London 1970, ISBN 0-85329-013-X , pp. 31 .
- ↑ Blake Hall Station. (No longer available online.) In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on January 9, 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.
- ↑ YouTube video about the Blake Hall station from “citytransportinfo”, with history and special trips. Retrieved October 2, 2014 .
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North Weald (closed) |
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Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 43.3 " N , 0 ° 12 ′ 10.5" E