Gants Hill tube station

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Gants Hill
Location
Place	Gants Hill
Local authority	Redbridge

Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2

Transport for London
Zone	4
2005 annual usage	3.799 million †
2007 annual usage	4.527 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1947
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Gants Hill tube station is a London Underground station in Gants Hill, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is served by the Central Line and is in Zone 4.

Construction originally began in the 1930s but was suspended during the Second World War. During the war the station was used as an air raid shelter and the tunnels as a munitions factory for Plessey electronics. The station was finally completed and opened on 14 December 1947. Originally, it was to have been named "North Ilford".

The station, like many others on the same branch, was designed by notable Tube architect Charles Holden; the lower portions of the station were modeled after the Moscow Underground.^[1] It is underneath Gants Hill roundabout, and accessed via the pedestrian subway under the roundabout. It is thus almost invisible from ground level; the only visible traces are the London Transport signs at some of the entrances to the subway and (for the sharp-eyed) the ticket office windows on the roundabout.

There are three escalators from the ticket office to the platforms. The platform-level concourse, with its stone panelling and barrel vaulted ceiling, was inspired by similar station designs on the Moscow Metro.

1 Usage
2 Advertisement
3 Actual condition
4 References
5 External links
6 Gallery

[edit] Usage

Transport for London reports the station had 3.5 million entries and exits in 2004. The station is in a densely populated area and is served by several 'feeder' bus routes to the station.

[edit] Advertisement

The station has now also got a lot of advertisement on the walls - Except where tiles of the wall are missing. (Since ca 03 June 2008)

The accident in March 2008

[edit] Actual condition

One of the entrances to the pedestrian subway is destroyed and therefore closed since a car crashed into this entrance on 23 March 2008. No repairs to allow a reopening of this entrance have been carried out so far.

Especially in 2007 the station was regularly closed because of flood. Gants Hill Tube Flood