Chigwell tube station

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Chigwell
Location
Place	Chigwell
Local authority	Epping Forest

Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2

Transport for London
Zone	4
2005 annual usage	0.203 million †
2007 annual usage	0.380 million †
History
1903 1947 1948	Opened (GER) Closed (LNER) Opened (Central Line)
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Chigwell 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 and is between Grange Hill and Roding Valley stations. Since 2 January 2007, the station is in Travelcard Zone 4.

1 History
2 References
3 External links
4 Gallery

[edit] History

The station was opened on 1 May 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on its Woodford to Ilford line (the Fairlop Loop).^[1] As a consequence of the 1921 Railways Act, the GER was merged with other railway companies in 1923 to become part of the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER).

The Woodford to Ilford 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 north-east London. As part of this work the station closed on 29 November 1947.^[1] Electric Underground trains served the station from 21 November 1948.^[1]

From the mid-1960s until the early 1990s, the Woodford-Hainault section was operated largely separately 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 prior to its implementation on the Victoria Line. Separate operation has now been abolished and through trains to Central London now operate.

On 19 November 2006, service at the station was extended from 8 pm to approximately midnight.

On 5 February 2006, the station became one of the first on the network to operate without a staffed ticket office.^[2]