Newbury Park Underground Station
Newbury Park is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Redbridge . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 4 on Eastern Avenue ( A12 ). In 2014, 4.62 million passengers used this station served by the Central Line .
history
On May 1, 1903, the Great Eastern Railway opened a suburban railway from Ilford via Hainault to Woodford , the so-called Fairlop Loop . In 1923 the line became the property of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).
As part of the New Works Program of the London Passenger Transport Board of 1935, most of the route was to be transferred to the Central Line to relieve the subsequent main rail line towards Liverpool Street . Construction began in 1938, but had to be stopped by 1945 after the outbreak of World War II . An underground connection was built from Leytonstone , which met the existing route south of Newbury Park. The last LNR train pulled by steam locomotives ran on November 29, 1947. The underground service began two weeks later on December 14, 1947. Newbury Park was initially the terminus, operations in the direction of Hainault began on May 31, 1948.
architecture
The most noticeable feature of the station is the adjacent bus terminal designed by Oliver Hill and opened in July 1949 . The copper- clad barrel vaulted roof won an architecture award at the Festival of Britain in 1951 ; it has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 1981 . The original station building had to be demolished in 1956 because of the widening of Eastern Avenue. In the same year, the tracks that were no longer in use were removed from Ilford and the cut was filled.
Web links
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.
- ↑ a b Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 3, 2013 .
- ^ Newbury Park station bus shelter. (No longer available online.) In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, archived from the original on September 10, 2014 ; accessed on January 9, 2013 . 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.
- ^ JE Connor: Branch Line to Ongar . Middleton Press, Midhurst 2007, ISBN 978-1-906008-05-5 , pp. 114 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 32.3 " N , 0 ° 5 ′ 23.7" E