Loughton Underground Station
Loughton is an above-ground station on the London Underground . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 6 and is one of 14 outside Greater London . It is located in the village of Loughton, in the Epping Forest district of Essex . In 2014, 3.26 million passengers used this station served by the Central Line .
The station building designed by John Murray Easton has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 1994 . The main wing consists of a high square block dominated by large arched windows in the upper area. This is flanked by two symmetrical wings and in the south by a one-story extension.
history
The station was opened on August 22, 1856 by the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR). Loughton was initially the terminus of a suburban railway line running from Stratford for nine years . In 1862 the ECR was part of the Great Eastern Railway . This erected a new building that was shifted around 450 meters to the south and put it into operation on April 24, 1865, together with the extension to Epping and Ongar .
From 1923 the line was owned by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). On behalf of the London Passenger Transport Board , LNER had a new station building built, which was opened on April 28, 1940. The underground service began on November 21, 1948. For about ten months, Loughton was the northern terminus; British Railways trains hauled by steam locomotives ran on the remainder of the route until September 25, 1949 , when the London Underground took over operations here after electrification was complete.
Web links
- London's abandoned tube stations - Loughton (Station before 1865)
- Photo with construction work (April 1940)
- Photo of the entrance hall (July 1955)
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.
- ^ Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station. In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, accessed January 9, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 3, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 29 ″ N , 0 ° 3 ′ 19.5 ″ E