Newbury Park tube station

Newbury Park is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 4 at the Eastern Avenue ( A12). In the year 2011 there were 3.92 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. 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 adjusted after the outbreak of World War II until 1945. Was built from Leytonstone from an underground connection that hit south of Newbury Park on the existing route. The last drawn by steam locomotives LNR wrong train on 29 November 1947. The subway began operation two weeks later on 14 December 1947. Newbury Park was first terminal, the operation towards Hainault was taken on May 31, 1948.

Architecture

The most striking feature of the station is adjacent, designed by Oliver Hill and went into operation in July 1949 bus. The copper -clad barrel vault roof in 1951 won an architecture prize at the Festival of Britain; it is since 1981 listed building (Grade II). The original station building had to be demolished in 1956 due to the widening of the Eastern Avenue. In the same year was removed fro the disused tracks of Ilford and filled the incision on.