Hainault tube station

Hainault is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 4 on the New North Road. In the year 2011 there were 2.95 million passengers these from the Central Line station. To the north is one of the three workshops operating the Central Line.

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 from October 1, 1908 to March 2, 1930. 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. From 1943 to 1945, during the Second World War, the United States Army Transportation Corps used temporarily, completed in 1939, company workshop.

The last drawn by steam locomotives LNER - train reversed on 29 November 1947. Effect from December 14, 1947 passed empty subway trains, the station to go on the newly electrified line to the maintenance workshop. The underground operation on the section between Newbury Park and Hainault was taken on May 31, 1948. Barely half a year Hainault was terminal, pending the re- commissioning of the remaining distance to Woodford on 21 November 1948.