South Woodford tube station

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South Woodford
Location
Place	South Woodford
Local authority	Redbridge
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use
Annual entry/exit	3.014 million
Transport for London
Zone	4
History
Key dates	Opened 1856
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

South Woodford tube station is a London Underground station on the Central Line, between Snaresbrook and Woodford in Zone 4.

[edit] History

The station opened as South Woodford (George Lane) on 22 August 1856 as part of the Eastern Counties Railway branch to Loughton, which was eventually extended to Epping and Ongar in 1865. The station then formed part of the Great Eastern Railway's system until that company was merged into the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) in 1923. The station was subsequently transferred to form part of London Underground's Central Line from 14 December 1947. This formed a part of the long planned, and delayed, Eastern Extension of the Central line that was part of the London Passenger Transport Board's "New Works Programme" of 1935 - 1940.

The suffix "George Lane" has never been officially used since the transfer to the Underground but is, unusually, retained on the station's nameplate roundels.