Snaresbrook tube station

Snaresbrook is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 4 on the High Street. In the year 2011 there were 2.6 million passengers these from the Central Line station.

The opening of the station took place on August 22, 1856 by the Eastern Counties Railway ( ECR), as part of the newly built route from Stratford to Loughton, which was nine years later extended to Ongar. 1862 was the ECR in the Great Eastern Railway on, this turn in 1923 in the London and North Eastern Railway. After some structural adjustments sailed on December 14, 1947 for the first time Metro trains on the Central line the route.

The 1893 partially rebuilt station is a typical example of Victorian railway architecture, with a main building of brick and platform roofs made ​​of cast iron and wood. On the western platform was created in 1948 an additional ticket hut, which is no longer used.