Whitechapel station
Whitechapel is a London Underground and London Overground station in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2, at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Brady Street. Here the District Line and the Hammersmith & City Line intersect at two levels on the one hand with the East London Line on the other. It is also the eastern terminus of each second train of the Hammersmith & City Line. In 2011, 12.62 million passengers used the station.
West of Whitechapel there was a connecting curve ( the so-called St Mary 's Curve ) between the District and the East London Line. This is frequented by 1941 in passenger traffic until 2008 after which only occasionally used to replace trains between the lines. Also west of Whitechapel is the closed since 1938 Station St Mary's ( Whitechapel Road).
History
The opening of the station Whitechapel took place in 1876, when the East London Railway ( ELR) took the route between Wapping and Liverpool Street in operation. The ELR was in possession of the track and the broadcaster, but do not even train operating through. From the outset, several companies took advantage of the route, including the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB & SCR), the London, Chatham and Dover Railway ( LC & DR) and the South Eastern Railway (SER ); later the Great Eastern Railway (GER ) was added.
On December 6, 1884, the Metropolitan District Railway (predecessor company of the District Line ) opened its own station on the existing ELR, as part of the Mansion House here leading track. The station was named Whitechapel ( Mile End ). 1885 people between Whitechapel and Liverpool Street was set on January 13, 1901 received its present name of the station. From 1 February to 2 June 1902, he was temporarily closed, as the MDR took into operation together with the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway ( LT & SR ) established Whitechapel and Bow Railway to Bromley -by -Bow. Well wrong MDR trains on LT & SR - tracks to the Upminster, in summer to Southend -on-Sea.
Of 2 December 1906 to 31 March 1913, the trains ran on the East London Line only between Whitechapel and Shoreditch, the southern section navigated only freight trains. After the closure of St Mary 's Curve for passenger traffic on 6 October 1941, the East London Line has been downgraded to a pure feeder. Between 25 March 1995 and 25 March 1998, the entire route was closed due to refurbishment works in the Thames Tunnel to all traffic. On 9 June 2006, the section was shut down by Shoreditch.
As of 22 December 2007, the East London Line station was closed again. The line was extended on both ends and re-opened on 27 April 2010. Since then, the East London Line is part of the route network from London Overground.
Future
As part of the Crossrail project creates a station for this train -like compound through the city at the subway station. To the east of the tunnel will branch into two branches according to Shenfield and Abbey Wood.