Epping Underground Station
Epping is an above-ground station on the London Underground . The northernmost station of the underground network is in the Travelcard tariff zone 6 and is one of 14 outside Greater London . It is located on Station Road in the town of Epping in the district Epping Forest of the county Essex . In 2014, 3.07 million passengers used this station served by the Central Line .
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 . From 1923 the line was owned by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). After the nationalization of the LNER, the line went into the possession of British Railways for a few months in 1948 , which allowed shuttle trains with steam locomotives to run on the not yet electrified section. The metro began operating on September 25, 1949.
British Railways' steam-powered trains on behalf of London Underground continued to operate on the single-track section between Epping and Ongar for more than eight years. 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.
Since the beginning of the 1980s, trains to Ongar have only run during rush hour . It was shut down on September 30, 1994 because the operation was too unprofitable and expensive maintenance work would have been necessary. Since October 10, 2004, the Epping Ongar Railway has been running a museum railroad on weekends , starting at the Coopersale stop a few hundred meters further north, which was built later .
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).
- ↑ a b Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 2, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 37.1 ″ N , 0 ° 6 ′ 49.8 ″ E