Fairlop Underground Station
Fairlop is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Redbridge . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 4 on Forest Road. In 2014, 1.09 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 . 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. Six months later, on May 31, 1948, underground operations began. As early as December 14, 1947, empty subway trains had passed the station to get to the Hainault workshop on the newly electrified route.
On Edwardian station building itself only a few changes have been made. The canopies on the two platforms are still decorated with the Great Eastern Railway logo. The station is outside the urban development; neighboring leisure facilities such as sports centers and golf courses are mainly responsible for passenger traffic.
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 ° 35 '44.6 " N , 0 ° 5' 27.9" E