Wanstead (London Underground)

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North entrance
Platform to the north

Wanstead is an underground station on the London Underground in the London Borough of Redbridge . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 4 on Eastern Avenue ( A12 ). In 2014, 3.09 million passengers used this station served by the Central Line .

Construction work on the station began in the late 1930s, but had to be interrupted because of the Second World War. The already completed tunnel between Leytonstone and Newbury Park served for several years as an underground factory for aircraft parts for the Plessey group; a freight railway with a gauge of 457 mm connected the individual departments with one another. After the end of the war, the production facilities were removed and construction of the underground line continued. The station with the entrance building designed by Charles Holden opened on December 14, 1947.

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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. Stephen Halliday: Underground to everywhere . Sutton Publishing, Stroud 2001, ISBN 0-7509-2585-X , pp. 172-173 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 32.1 ″  N , 0 ° 1 ′ 42.5 ″  E