Grange Hill Underground Station

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Station building
View of the platforms

Grange Hill is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Redbridge . It is located in the Travelcard tariff zone 4 on Manor Road, directly on the outer border of Greater London . In 2014, 0.60 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 Grange Hill. 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. The original station building had been destroyed by a German V1 rocket in 1944 and was replaced by a new building four years later.

Since February 5, 2006, Grange Hill 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. By October 19, 2006, the company closed at 8:00 p.m., and since then at midnight.

Web links

Commons : Grange Hill (London Underground)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 3, 2013 .
  3. ^ Central Line: Barkingside to Woodford. Tubewalker, accessed January 3, 2013 .
  4. ↑ New ticket office opening hours from February 5. Transport for London, February 3, 2006, accessed on January 3, 2013 .
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