Chigwell (London Underground)
Chigwell is an above-ground station on the London Underground . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 4 and is one of 14 stations outside Greater London . It is located between the High Road and Hainault Road in the village of Chigwell, in the Epping Forest district of Essex . In 2014, 0.53 million passengers used this station served by the Central Line .
On May 1, 1903, the Great Eastern Railway opened a suburban railway from Ilford via Hainault to Woodford , the so-called Fairlop Loop , with a stop in Chigwell. In 1923 the line became the property of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). The last LNER train pulled by steam locomotives ran on November 29, 1947. As a result, traffic on the line was idle for around a year and a half in order to be able to carry out the electrification required for underground operation. The first underground train finally ran on November 21, 1948. By October 19, 2006, operations closed at 8:00 p.m. and since then at midnight.
Since February 5, 2006, Chigwell has been one of the first London Underground stations that are no longer staffed and do not have a ticket office. The reasons are, on the one hand, the low level of use and, on the other hand, the increasing spread of the Oyster card , which means that fewer sales personnel are required.
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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.
- ↑ Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 3, 2013 .
- ↑ New ticket office opening hours from February 5. Transport for London, February 3, 2006, accessed on January 3, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 4 " N , 0 ° 4 ′ 29.6" E