Ongar
This station, photographed on 5th May 1980, is of the '1865 type' Great Eastern architecture used on many rural lines in Essex and Suffolk, and was thus familiar to the eye. However, the visual double-take of the time was the presence of diminutive London Underground tube stock at the platform instead of a more typical first generation DMU. The station was then the Central line terminus at Ongar and the train is the Epping – Ongar rush hour shuttle service (via North Weald and Blake Hall). Always something of an overstretched extension of the London Underground/Great Eastern system, the line to Ongar from Epping was closed in September 1994, but lives on as a heritage railway.
Location: Ongar
Original line: Ongar Extension (Great Eastern Railway)
Photographer: Mark Dufton
Contact photographer: Mark Dufton
Date: 05/05/1980
Image number: 76707
Other photographs of Ongar on RailScot
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