Elm Park tube station

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Elm Park
Location
Place	Elm Park
Local authority	London Borough of Havering

Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2

Transport for London
Zone	6
2004 annual usage	1.875 million †
2007 annual usage	2.236 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1935
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Elm Park Station is a London Underground station on the District Line, located in Elm Park in the London Borough of Havering.

The station is in Zone 6. The station was constructed and initially operated by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway with services provided by the District Line from the outset.

1 History
2 Services
3 External links
4 Connection

[edit] History

The station was opened in 1935 and is of similar design to Dagenham Heathway and Upney. Learning from the mistakes of their design, the station canopy is supported by one central pillar and the ramp to the ticket hall is much wider. The platforms are arranged on an island layout with station buildings typical of the 1930s. A long sloping walkway connects the platforms, which are below street level, with the ticket hall. The station opened with a passimeter for quick sale of tickets and in the off peak collection of tickets from one side and sale from the other. A ticket collectors position was provided with stable door, now a bin store. A ticket office was also provided to deal with parcels and also had the electrical fuses and switches. Now a shop, switch room, and computor room. The station had central heating supplied by a coal boiler under the booking hall, a coal shute from a street manhole was used to supply coal. The boiler was later converted to gas, all removed when the new ticket office was built opposite fot the underground ticket system.