Stepney Green tube station

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Stepney Green
Location
Place	Stepney
Local authority	Tower Hamlets

Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2

Transport for London
Zone	2
2004 annual usage	3.461 million †
2007 annual usage	4.033 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1902
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Stepney Green is a London Underground station on the District and Hammersmith and City lines, located on the junction of Globe Road and Mile End Road in the Stepney area of East London, United Kingdom.

The station was opened in 1902 by the Whitechapel & Bow Railway. Electrified services started in 1905. In 1923 ownership of the station passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, although services were provided by the District Line. Hammersmith and City line services (then part of the Metropolitan Line) started in 1936. The station passed to London Underground after nationalisation of the railways.

It is a sub surface station with two platforms. The ticket office is above ground and connected to the platforms by stairs. The layout and design of the station is largely unchanged with many original features intact. On the Westbound platform you will find one of the common countdown timers (found in most tube stations now) producing an ETA for the next train, however on the Eastbound platform it still makes use of one of the old signs which merely indicates the intended destination of the next train, with no indication of the ETA.

Stepney Green is one of the two stations (the other being Mile End) that students from the nearby Mile End campus of Queen Mary, University of London use, as both stations are located at each side of it.

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List of London Underground stations

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History of Stepney neighborhood

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Whitechapel towards Hammersmith		Hammersmith & City line		Mile End towards Barking
Whitechapel towards Wimbledon, Richmond or Ealing Broadway		District line		Mile End towards Upminster