Hainault tube station

Hainault

Station entrance on New North Road
Hainault Location of Hainault in Greater London
Location	Hainault
Local authority	London Borough of Redbridge
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	3
Accessible
Fare zone	4
London Underground annual entry and exit
2008	2.380 million[1]
2009	2.525 million[2]
2010	2.690 million[3]
1903	Opened (GER)
1908	Closed (GER)
1930	Reopened (LNER)
1947	Closed (LNER)
1948	Opened as terminus (Central line)
1948	Became through station
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
London Transport portalCoordinates: 51°36′12″N 0°05′36″E / 51.6033°N 0.0933°E / 51.6033; 0.0933

Hainault is a London Underground station on the Central Line in Hainault in the London Borough of Redbridge. Since 2 January 2007 the station is in Travelcard Zone 4. This station is home to one of the three Central Line depots.

History

The station was opened on 1 May 1903 as part of the Great Eastern Railway's (GER) Woodford to Ilford "loop" or branch line (the Fairlop Loop). This line designed to stimulate suburban growth was closed due to a lack of custom on 1 October 1908 and did not reopen until 2 March 1930. In the interim the 1921 Railways Act, had caused the GER to be merged with other railway companies in 1923 and the new operator was the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER). As part of the 1935 - 1940 "New Works Programme" of the London Passenger Transport Board the majority of the loop was to be transferred to form the eastern extensions of the Central line. Although work commenced in 1938 it was suspended upon the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and work only recommenced in 1946.

Steam train services serving Hainault were suspended on 29 November 1947 and electrified Central Line passenger services, to Central London via Gants Hill, finally commenced on 31 May 1948. The line from Newbury Park to Hainault had been electrified for empty train movements to the new depot at Hainault from 14 December 1947. The services to Woodford via Grange Hill, were reintroduced on 21 November 1948.

Alterations at Hainault included a new island platform on the west side of the station to allow the bulk of services via Gants Hill to be terminated here as well as allowing access to Hainault Depot. This, situated to the north of the station is the major train depot on the eastern end of the line. The building was completed in 1939 but was used by the US Army Transportation Corps until 1945. The depot was in use for Central Line stock from 14 December 1947.

For many years, the lightly used Woodford-Hainault section was largely operated as a separate shuttle. The section was adapted in the mid 1960s for experimental Automatic Train Operation (ATO) using modified 1960 Stock units. ATO was subsequently adopted on the Victoria Line. The Woodford-Hainault service is no longer operated separately and the 1960 Stock (along with the rest of the Central Line's 1962 Stock) has been superseded by trains of 1992 Stock.

An ongoing refurbishment programme has seen the ticket office completed, with work now continuing on a supervisors office and the mobility impaired lifts street to platforms being the next stage on the project. Hainault now has a lift which has a descent of 0.67 metres. It is the shallowest lift on the London Underground network.^{[citation needed]}

The new Station Supervisors Office in the Ticket Hall was completed in June 2009.

Transport links

London Buses route and N8.

Route Number	Route	Via	Operator	Operation
150	Chigwell Row to Becontree Heath Bus Station	Hainault Barkingside, Gants Hill , Ilford	Arriva London	Daily. London Buses service. Times
247	Barkingside Station to Romford Station	Hainault , Collier Row	Stagecoach London	Daily. London Buses service. Times
N8	Hainault The Lowe to Oxford Circus	Gants Hill , Wanstead , Stratford , Bethnal Green , Bank	Stagecoach London	Nightly. London Buses service. Times

Service

Typical off-peak service level is:

• 3 trains per hours (tph) to Woodford
• 9 tph to Ealing Broadway via Newbury Park

Gallery

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hainault tube station.

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  Looking north ('eastbound') along platforms with 1930s style shelter

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  Roundel on platform 2

References

External links

• London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Hainault LNER station, 1935
  • Hainault station rebuilt, 1948
  • Booking hall, 1955
  • View of platforms, 1955
  • Hainault station, 2001

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Fairlop Shuttle services from Woodford terminate here towards Ealing Broadway or West Ruislip		Central line		Grange Hill Select services from Central London terminate here towards Woodford

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