Gants Hill Underground Station

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The distribution level is modeled on the stations of the Moscow Metro
Platform to the north

Gants Hill is an underground station on the London Underground in the London Borough of Redbridge . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 4 at the intersection of five major main roads. In 2014, 6.56 million passengers used this station served by the Central Line .

Construction work on the station began in the late 1930s, but had to be interrupted because of the Second World War. The already completed tunnel between Leytonstone and Newbury Park served for several years as an underground factory for aircraft parts of the Plessey group; a freight railway with a gauge of 457 mm connected the individual departments with one another. After the end of the war, the production facilities were removed and construction of the underground line continued. The station with the entrance building designed by Charles Holden opened on December 14, 1947.

The building is in the middle of the roundabout and can only be reached through a pedestrian underpass. The only elements visible from the outside are the underground logos at the entrances to the underpass and (just above the floor) the windows of the counter hall. The distribution level with the stone wall cladding and the barrel vault are inspired by similar stations on the Moscow Metro .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / content.tfl.gov.uk
  2. ↑ Stephen Halliday: Underground to everywhere . Sutton Publishing, Stroud 2001, ISBN 0-7509-2585-X , pp. 172-173 .
  3. ↑ Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 3, 2013 .
  4. ^ John R. Day, John Reed: The Story of London''s Underground . Capital Transport, London 2008, ISBN 1-85414-316-6 , pp. 149 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 35.5 ″  N , 0 ° 3 ′ 58.3 ″  E