Ongar
Ex-GWR Class 5101 2-6-2T 'Large Prairie' 4141, in former GER territory at Ongar, at the head of an Epping Ongar Railway train to North Weald on 1st June 2013. This station opened in 1865 with the extension of the line from Loughton with Central Line electrification reaching Epping in 1949. Steam trains continued to shuttle between Epping and Ongar until 1957 when electrification was extended to Ongar. Until 1994, when this section closed, tube trains meant for deep level tunnels under central London could be seen bouncing incongruously through woods and fields. This may have caused some wry smiles to residents of Crouch End (where I live) and Muswell Hill who were promised Northern Line tube trains on the Alexandra Palace branch but that scheme, on which more than £1 million was spent before 1939, was not proceeded with after 1945 and the line closed instead in 1954.
Location: Ongar
Original line: Ongar Extension (Great Eastern Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Epping Ongar Railway 1981-2021
Date: 01/06/2013
Image number: 81726
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