North Weald Underground Station
North Weald is a closed London Underground station on the Central Line east of Epping . It was in operation from 1865 to 1994 and is located in Blake Hall in the Epping Forest district of Essex .
history
The station was opened on April 24, 1865 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER), as part of the new section between Loughton and Ongar . It initially served mainly as a goods loading point to transport products from the surrounding farms to London . From 1923 the line was owned by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). During the Second World War , the station was mainly used by Royal Air Force soldiers on their way to North Weald Airfield.
The single-track line was operated east of Epping from September 25, 1949 as part of the Central Line by British Rail steam shuttle trains on behalf of London Underground. On November 18, 1957, electrification was also completed here. However, the section to Ongar was always little frequented. There were only shuttle trains with two or three cars and the passengers had to change trains in Epping. The fact that the regular underground trains did not run the entire route was also due to the fact that the power supply on the Epping – Ongar section was not sufficient. Through trains only ran two days a year during the air show at the airport.
There was an alternative in North Weald along the ten-kilometer route. However, this second track was removed in 1976. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the trains only ran during rush hour , because the Greater London Council had canceled the subsidies for sections outside their area of influence. It was closed on September 30, 1994. The operation was too unprofitable and expensive maintenance work would have been necessary.
From October 10, 2004, the Epping Ongar Railway ran a museum railway operation with diesel multiple units on summer weekends . In 2007 the operation was stopped because the line had to be repaired in numerous places. The museum railway acquired new vehicles in the following years, including four steam locomotives . Since May 25, 2012, the route has been reopened for museum railroad operation on weekends and public holidays.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 2, 2013 .
- ↑ harles Edward Lee: Seventy Years of the Central . Ed .: London Transport. London 1970, ISBN 0-85329-013-X , pp. 31 .
| Previous station | Transport for London | Next station |
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| Epping |
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Blake Hall (closed) |
Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 41.2 " N , 0 ° 9 ′ 50.7" E