Buckhurst Hill Underground Station
Buckhurst Hill is an overground station of the London Underground in TfL tariff zone 5 and is one of fourteen outside of Greater London . It is located on Victoria Road in the town of Buckhurst Hill, in the Epping Forest district of Essex . In 2014, 2.06 million passengers used this station served by the Central Line .
history
The station was opened on August 22, 1856 by the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR), as part of the newly built line between Stratford and Loughton , which was extended to Ongar nine years later . In 1862 the ECR merged with the Great Eastern Railway (GER), which had the station building rebuilt in 1892. In 1923 GER was taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway . After some structural adjustments, the Central Line metro trains for the first time on November 21, 1948. The station building has retained the ambience of the late Victorian era to this day .
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.
- ↑ a b Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 3, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 35.5 ″ N , 0 ° 2 ′ 49 ″ E