Barkingside tube station

Barkingside is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 4 at a dead end called Road Station. In the year 2011 there were 1.16 million passengers these from the Central Line station.

History

On May 1, 1903, the Great Eastern Railway opened a railway suburb of Ilford to Woodford via Hainault, called the Fairlop Loop. Due to low demand, the breakpoint was closed on 22 May 1916 to 30 June 1919. 1923 went the distance in the possession of the London and North Eastern Railway on ( LNER ).

As part of the " New Works " program of the London Passenger Transport Board from 1935 should be the largest part of the route is transferred to the Central Line to relieve the subsequent main railway line towards Liverpool Street. Construction began in 1938 but had to be set up in 1946 after the outbreak of the Second World War. The last drawn by steam locomotives LNER - train reversed on 29 November 1947. The underground operation began six months later on 31 May 1948. Already since December 14, 1947 had empty subway trains passing through the station, to move to the newly electrified line for maintenance workshop Hainault.

At the station building itself only a few changes have been made. It consists of bricks and has a domed roof, which is supported by engraving beams. The canopies on both platforms today are still decorated with the logo of the Great Eastern Railway. Since 2011, the station is a listed building (Grade II).