Leytonstone Underground Station

Station building

Branching of the routes to Epping (middle) and Hainault (left and right)

Leytonstone is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Waltham Forest . It is on the border of the Travelcard tariff zones 3 and 4, on Church Lane and parallel to the A12 expressway . In 2014, 11.05 million passengers used this station served by the Central Line .

The Central Line branches out into two branches to Epping and Hainault . A special feature are 17 mosaics that depict scenes from various Alfred Hitchcock films. These were designed by the Greenwich Mural Workshop and presented to the public on May 3rd, 2001. Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, close to the station, in 1899.

history

The station was opened on August 22, 1856 by the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR), as part of the newly built line from Stratford to Loughton , which was extended to Ongar nine years later . From 1862 it belonged to the route network of the Great Eastern Railway , from 1923 to that of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).

As part of the New Works Program , it was decided to transfer the northeastern suburban lines of the LNER to the Central Line. The move included electrifying the Epping line and building a new line under Eastern Avenue towards Newbury Park . Leytonstone station has been fundamentally rebuilt and the level crossing on Church Lane has been replaced by a footbridge. The Central Line metro trains first stopped in Leytonstone on May 5, 1947. For a few months it was the end of the line; Passengers in the direction of Epping first had to change to steam-powered shuttle trains. This operational situation ended with the start of underground service towards Newbury Park and Woodford on December 14, 1947.

Web links

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

• Hitchcock mosaics
• Photo of the bomb damage (March 1944)
• Photo of the counter hall (June 1955)

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.  
2. ↑ Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 3, 2013 . 

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