Stepney Green
LUL D78 stock, on westbound District Line service at Stepney Green, on 15th October 2011. These trains were withdrawn in 2017 with some converted into Vivarail diesel units for use elsewhere. This sub-surface station is also served by the Hammersmith & City Line which, with the Edgware Road to Wimbledon section of the Distirct Line, was the last bastion of the LUL sub-surface C stock trains until their withdrawal in 2014. Both lines are now operated with S7 stock trains. Stepney Green, along with Mile End and Bow Road, was opened on 2nd June 1902 by the Whitechapel & Bow Railway that extended the District Line east from Whitechapel to a connection with the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway at Campbell Road Junction, west of Bromley station (now Bromley-by-Bow). This enabled District trains to be extended to East Ham and to Barking in 1905, eventually reaching Upminster in 1932. Until 1939, there were through District trains from Ealing Broadway to Southend Central, changing from LPTB electric locomotives to LTSR steam ones at Barking. The service was not resumed after 1945. Mile End station became an interchange with the LUL Central Line in 1946.
Location: Stepney Green
Original line: Whitechapel and Bow Railway (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and District Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: LU D78 stock (now withdrawn) District Line 2011-2016
Date: 15/10/2011
Image number: 76772
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