Buckhurst Hill tube station

Buckhurst Hill
Buckhurst Hill
	Station entrance
	Buckhurst Hill Location of Buckhurst Hill in Essex
Location	Buckhurst Hill
Local authority	District of Epping Forest
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	5
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019	1.86 million
2020	0.86 million
2021	1.07 million
2022	1.68 million
2023	1.79 million
Key dates
22 August 1856	Opened
1892	resited
6 January 1966	Goods yard closed
Other information
External links	TfL station info page;
Coordinates	51°37′36″N 0°02′49″E / 51.62666°N 0.04694°E
	London transport portal

Buckhurst Hill is a station on the Central line of the London Underground, serving the suburban town of Buckhurst Hill in the Epping Forest District of Essex. The station lies between Woodford and Loughton, in London fare zone 5. It is the larger of the two Underground stations in the town of Buckhurst Hill, with Roding Valley station being the smaller.

History

The station opened on 22 August 1856 as part of the Eastern Counties Railway branch from London to Loughton. It originally had staggered platforms, with the main buildings on the down side (tracks heading away from London). The 1856 station house survives to the south of the present platforms, but most of the present station dates from 1892, when the entrance was moved to Victoria Road. The building is similar to that at Billericay. Both were designed by W. N. Ashbee, the chief architect of the Great Eastern Railway,^[8] of which the station was a part, which was, from 1923, to become part of the London and North Eastern Railway.

The station was transferred to London Underground ownership as part of the New Works Programme, 1935-1940 scheme that saw the electrification of the branch to form part of the Central line. This occurred on 21 November 1948. The station maintains its late Victorian ambiance to a surprising extent.

When the line was electrified a pedestrian underpass was built in order to connect the two parts of Queens Road previously joined by a level crossing. At the same time a pair of exit/entrances to the south of the station were built giving direct access to Lower Queens Road and Queens Road via the new underpass. These exits were closed in 1982, but reopened in May 2018 in order to provide access to the station for mobility impaired passengers.

For the purposes of fare charging it is in Zone 5. As of 2007 it is the only station on the eastern portion of the Central line in that zone. Passengers travelling from the station leaving in either direction must cross a zone boundary.

Gallery

The station today
Looking north
Looking south
Looking south from the footbridge
Looking north from the footbridge
Roundel

References

^ Standard Tube Map (PDF) (Map). Not to scale. Transport for London. April 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 May 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
^ Hardy, Brian, ed. (March 2011). "How it used to be – freight on The Underground 50 years ago". Underground News (591). London Underground Railway Society: 175–183. ISSN 0306-8617.
^ Kay, Peter (2006). Essex Railway Heritage. Wivenhoe UK: Peter Kay. pp. 28–29. ISBN 978-1-899890-40-8.

External links

http://citytransport.info/BuckhurstHill.htm – Photographs of the Victorian era station platforms, shelters and waiting rooms.

Preceding station		Following station
Woodford towards Ealing Broadway or West Ruislip	Central line Epping branch	Loughton towards Epping
Historical railways
Woodford Line and station open	Great Eastern Railway Eastern Counties Railway Loughton branch	Loughton Line and station open

[1] Standard Tube Map (PDF) (Map). Not to scale. Transport for London. April 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 May 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2024.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2019-2] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2020-3] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2021-4] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2022-5] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2023-6] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.

[UN591-7] Hardy, Brian, ed. (March 2011). "How it used to be – freight on The Underground 50 years ago". Underground News (591). London Underground Railway Society: 175–183. ISSN 0306-8617.

[8] Kay, Peter (2006). Essex Railway Heritage. Wivenhoe UK: Peter Kay. pp. 28–29. ISBN 978-1-899890-40-8.

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