Mile End (London Underground)

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Station building
Hammersmith & City Line and District Line platforms

Mile End is an underground station in the London Underground district of Mile End in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2, at the intersection of Mile End Road and Burdett Road. The Central Line , the District Line and the Hammersmith & City Line operate here . In 2014, 15.60 million passengers used this station served by the Central Line.

The station name is derived from a milestone that marked the point that is exactly one mile east of the border of the City of London . Mile End is the only underground station in the entire underground network where you can change to both line types on the same platform; on the one hand tube path (tube) , on the other hand Unterpflasterbahn (sub-surface) .

The station was opened on June 2, 1902 by the Whitechapel and Bow Railway , a joint venture of the Metropolitan District Railway (predecessor of the District Line) and the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway . The Metropolitan Line first served Mile End on March 30, 1936 (its branch to Barking was transferred to Hammersmith & City Line in 1988). The Central Line's tracks went into operation on December 4, 1946.

The Mile End Park is close to the station .

Web links

Commons : Mile End (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. ^ District Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 3, 2013 .
  3. ^ Hammersmith & City Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 3, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 3, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '31.1 "  N , 0 ° 2' 1.3"  W.