Roding Valley Underground Station
Roding Valley is an above-ground London Underground station in the London Borough of Redbridge . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 4 on Buckhurst Way, directly on the outer border of Greater London . In 2014, 0.26 million passengers used this station served by the Central Line , which makes it the least frequented station in the entire network.
On May 1, 1903, the Great Eastern Railway (GER) opened a suburban railway from Ilford via Hainault to Woodford , the so-called Fairlop Loop . In the first three decades, no trains stopped here. The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), the successor company of GER, opened the Roding Valley stop on February 3, 1936. The name comes from the Roding River that flows by nearby.
The last LNER train pulled by steam locomotives ran on November 29, 1947. As a result, traffic on the line was idle for around a year and a half in order to be able to carry out the electrification required for underground operation. The first underground train finally ran on November 21, 1948. In the following year, the wooden station building was replaced by a more permanent new building. By October 19, 2006, the company closed at 8:00 p.m., and since then at midnight.
Roding Valley has been one of the first London Underground stations since February 5, 2006 to be no longer staffed and not to have a ticket office. The reasons are, on the one hand, the low level of use and, on the other hand, the increasing spread of the Oyster card , which means that fewer sales personnel are required.
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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 .
- ↑ New ticket office opening hours from February 5. Transport for London, February 3, 2006, accessed on January 3, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 0 ° 2 ′ 37.8 ″ E