South Woodford
LU roundel at South Woodford, east London, seen from a Central Line service from Epping to West Ruislip on the evening of Sunday, 5th September 2021. This station was opened as George Lane by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1856 and renamed South Woodford (George Lane) by the LNER in 1937. It was first served by Underground trains when electrification was extended from Leytonstone to Woodford on 14th December 1947. According to Alan A. Jackson and Desmond F. Croome in their excellent tome 'Rails Through the Clay', the station lost the George Lane suffix in 1948 but some roundels, like this one, are still bearing the legend over seventy years later. When I still lived with my parents and first started work, I went through this station every day on my daily commute between Loughton and Holborn.
Location: South Woodford
Original line: Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: London Underground stations 2010-2023
Date: 05/09/2021
Image number: 78496
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