Chigwell tube station

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Location
Chigwell
Place	Chigwell
Local authority	Epping Forest
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit	0.19 million
Transport for London
Zone	5
History
Key dates	Opened 1903
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

Chigwell station is a London Underground station at Chigwell in the Epping Forest district of Essex.

It is located on the Hainault loop of the Central Line. The line originally opened on 1 May 1903 as part of the newly constructed Great Eastern Railway's Woodford to Ilford line. In 1923 the GER was merged into the London & North Eastern Railway.

The Hainault loop was largely integrated into the London Underground Central line as part of the London Passenger Transport Board's "New Works Programme" of 1935 - 1940, which saw an extension of electric tube services into east London. As part of this work the station closed on 29 November 1947 with electrified Tube trains serving the station from 21 November 1948.

From the mid 1960s until the early 1990s the Woodford-Hainault section was largely separately operated from the rest of the Central Line, using four car (later three car) trains of 1960 Stock. These trains were adapted for Automatic Train Operation (ATO); the Woodford-Hainault section became the testing ground for ATO on the Victoria Line. The separate operation has now been abolished and through trains to Central London now operate.

For the purposes of fare charging the station is in Travelcard Zone 5. On 19 November 2006 service at the station was extended from 8 pm to approximately midnight. ^[1] The station is located at grid reference TQ437930. As of 5 February 2006, the station is one of the first on the network to operate without a staffed ticket office. ^[2]