Loughton
LUL 1992 stock on a Central Line train to Epping departing from Loughton station, on 23rd December 2013. This is the Essex town's third station; the first was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 22nd August 1856 as the terminus of the line from Stratford. It was replaced with a new station by the Great Eastern Railway which extended the line to Ongar on 24th April 1865, the extension diverging just outside the original terminus which became a goods yard. In anticipation of the electrification of the line for LPTB Central Line trains, the present station was opened on 21st April 1940 but World War Two delayed the scheme and it was 21st November 1948 before tube trains reached Loughton with extension to Epping on 25th September 1949. The goods yard on the site of the 1856 station remained open until 1966, served by steam trains using the original ECR route between Stratford (Loughton Branch Junction) and Leyton and which remained in use for early morning DMU staff trains until 1970.
Location: Loughton
Original line: Ongar Extension (Great Eastern Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: LU Central Line + 1992 stock 2012-2022
Date: 23/12/2013
Image number: 70974
