Loughton tube station

Loughton is an aboveground station London Underground. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 6 and is one of 14 outside of Greater London. It is located in the town of Loughton, in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex. In the year 2011 there were three million passengers these from the Central Line station.

Designed by John Murray Easton Station building is since 1994 listed building (Grade II). The main building is a large square block, which is dominated in the upper range of large arched windows. This is flanked by two symmetrical wings and in the south by a one-story extension.

History

The opening of the station took place on August 22, 1856 by the Eastern Counties Railway ( ECR). Loughton was first nine years the terminus of a line extending from Stratford from suburban railway. 1862 was the ECR on the Great Eastern Railway. This established an offset of around 450 meters to the south building and took it along with the track extension to Epping and Ongar on 24 April 1865 in operation.

From 1923 the track was owned by the London and North Eastern Railway ( LNER ). On behalf of the London Passenger Transport Board, the LNER had built a new station building, which was opened on 28 April 1940. The underground operation began on November 21, 1948 About ten months Loughton was the northern terminus. ; on the rest of the track went up to the September 25, 1949 hauled by steam locomotives trains of British Railways until the London Underground took over the business again after completion of electrification.