Chigwell tube station

Chigwell is an aboveground station London Underground. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 4 and is one of 14 stations outside of Greater London. It is located between the High Road and Hainault Road in the village of Chigwell, in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex. In the year 2011 there were 0.46 million passengers these from the Central Line station.

On May 1, 1903, the Great Eastern Railway opened a railway suburb of Ilford to Woodford via Hainault, called the Fairlop Loop, with a breakpoint in Chigwell. 1923 went the distance in the possession of the London and North Eastern Railway on ( LNER ). The last drawn by steam locomotives LNER - train reversed on 29 November 1947. Subsequently, the traffic on the route rested about one and a half years in order to carry out the necessary for the underground operation electrification can. The first metro train finally drove on 21 November 1948. Until October 19, 2006 at 20:00 clock was already closing time, since midnight.

Chigwell heard since February 5, 2006 on the first stations of the London Underground, which are no longer staffed and do not have a ticket office. Reasons are on the one hand the low use, on the other hand, the increasing spread of the Oyster card, which means less sales staff is required.