Upminster Bridge tube station

Upminster Bridge is an aboveground station London Underground in the London Borough of Havering. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 6 at the Upminster Road. With 0.99 million Fährgästen in 2011, it is the least used station on the District line. The station name refers to a bridge near that crosses the river Ingrebourne.

The opening took place on December 17, 1934, a little over two years after the existing line between Barking and Upminster had been electrified. The parallel part of the railway towards Southend -on-Sea there since 1888. Already between 1905 and 1908 here perverted trains on the District line, but then pulled by steam engines and without stopping in Upminster Bridge. In the early years, the station of the railway company London, Midland and Scottish Railway was administered.

The main hall of the station building is in two respects noteworthy: First, the hall has a polygonal shape, secondly, there is the tile pattern on the floor of a reversed swastika, the Hinduism and the UK's relationship with India symbolized in this case. At the station passes the London Outer Orbital Path, a trail around all over Greater London.

Upminster Bridge 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.