Blake Hall tube station

Blake Hall is a closed London Underground station on the Central Line east of Epping. She was in operation from 1865 to 1981 and is situated near the hamlet of Greensted in Essex belonging to Epping Forest District. She was named after Blake Hall, the official residence of local landowners.

History

The station was opened on 24 April in 1865 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER ), as part of the new section of line between Loughton and Ongar. Your building had prevailed in return for keeping the track on his property of the landowners. It served mainly as Güterverladestelle to transport products from the surrounding farms to London.

From 1923 the track was owned by the London and North Eastern Railway ( LNER ). The single track running route was east of Epping from September 25, 1949 sail as part of the Central Line of steam commuter trains British Rail on behalf of London Underground. On November 18, 1957, the electrification was completed here. The section following Ongar, however, was always less crowded. It reversed only shuttle trains with two or three cars, the passengers had to change trains in Epping. That the regular subway trains do not sailing the entire route, even so had to do that the power supply on the Epping Ongar section of this was not enough.

Blake Hall was by far the least used station of the Underground network: on average, it was frequented daily by just watching six passengers. Since the early 1980s, the trains ran only during rush hour, as the Greater London Council had subsidies beyond their control region deleted sections lying. The station was closed on 31 October 1981, shut down the unprofitable to become stretch on 30 September 1994. Since 10 October 2004, the Epping Ongar Railway private club runs a heritage railway operating on weekends. However, the trains do not stop in Blake Hall, as the station is now a purely residential house. In addition, the station is since 1984 listed building (Grade II).