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Gants Hill tube station is a London Underground
London Underground

The London Underground is a metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the UK....
 station in Gants Hill
Gants Hill

Gants Hill is a district in the London Borough of Redbridge in North East London. It is a suburban development situated 9.5 miles north east of Charing Cross....
, in the London Borough of Redbridge
London Borough of Redbridge

The London Borough of Redbridge is a London borough in north east London, England and forms part of Outer London....
. It is served by the Central Line
Central Line

The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and has the greatest total length of track of any line on the Underground....
 and is in Zone 4
Travelcard Zone 4

Travelcard Zone 4 is the fourth outward zone of Transport for London's zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London....
.

Construction originally began in the 1930s but was suspended during the Second World War. During the war the station was used as an air raid shelter and the tunnels as a munitions factory
Factory

A factory or manufacturing plant is an industry building where workers manufacturing Good or supervise machines Process Manufacturing one product into another....
 for Plessey
Plessey

The Plessey Company plc was a United Kingdom-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company. It originated in 1917, growing and diversifying into electronics....
 electronics. The station was finally completed and opened on 14 December 1947. Originally, it was to have been named "North Ilford".

The station, like many others on the same branch, was designed by notable Tube architect Charles Holden
Charles Holden

Charles Henry Holden was an English architect best known for his designs of some of the 1920s and 1930s stations on the London Underground railway system, but who was already a distinguished architect before then, notably in his Commonwealth War Graves Commission war cemeteries in Belgium and northern France....
; during the planning period London Underground advised on the construction of the new Moscow Metro
Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro , which spans almost the entire Moscow, is the world's Metro systems by annual passenger rides rapid-transit system. Opened in 1935, it is well known for the ornate design of many of its metro station, which contain outstanding examples of socialist realism art....
, which is why the barrel-vaulted halls of Gants Hill echo many stations on the Russian capital's system.

The station is located beneath Gants Hill roundabout, and accessed via the pedestrian subway under the roundabout.






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Gants Hill tube station is a London Underground
London Underground

The London Underground is a metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the UK....
 station in Gants Hill
Gants Hill

Gants Hill is a district in the London Borough of Redbridge in North East London. It is a suburban development situated 9.5 miles north east of Charing Cross....
, in the London Borough of Redbridge
London Borough of Redbridge

The London Borough of Redbridge is a London borough in north east London, England and forms part of Outer London....
. It is served by the Central Line
Central Line

The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and has the greatest total length of track of any line on the Underground....
 and is in Zone 4
Travelcard Zone 4

Travelcard Zone 4 is the fourth outward zone of Transport for London's zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London....
.

Construction originally began in the 1930s but was suspended during the Second World War. During the war the station was used as an air raid shelter and the tunnels as a munitions factory
Factory

A factory or manufacturing plant is an industry building where workers manufacturing Good or supervise machines Process Manufacturing one product into another....
 for Plessey
Plessey

The Plessey Company plc was a United Kingdom-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company. It originated in 1917, growing and diversifying into electronics....
 electronics. The station was finally completed and opened on 14 December 1947. Originally, it was to have been named "North Ilford".

The station, like many others on the same branch, was designed by notable Tube architect Charles Holden
Charles Holden

Charles Henry Holden was an English architect best known for his designs of some of the 1920s and 1930s stations on the London Underground railway system, but who was already a distinguished architect before then, notably in his Commonwealth War Graves Commission war cemeteries in Belgium and northern France....
; during the planning period London Underground advised on the construction of the new Moscow Metro
Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro , which spans almost the entire Moscow, is the world's Metro systems by annual passenger rides rapid-transit system. Opened in 1935, it is well known for the ornate design of many of its metro station, which contain outstanding examples of socialist realism art....
, which is why the barrel-vaulted halls of Gants Hill echo many stations on the Russian capital's system.

The station is located beneath Gants Hill roundabout, and accessed via the pedestrian subway under the roundabout. It is thus almost invisible from ground level; the only visible traces are the London Transport signs at some of the entrances to the subway and (for the sharp-eyed) the ticket office windows on the roundabout.

There are three escalators from the ticket office to the platforms.

Usage

Transport for London
Transport for London

Transport for London is the local government body responsible for most aspects of the transport system in Greater London in England. Its role is to implement the transport strategy and to manage transport services across London....
 reports the station had 3.5 million entries and exits in 2004. The station is in a densely populated area and is served by several 'feeder' bus routes to the station, namely 66
London Buses route 66

London Buses route 66 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Go-Ahead London....
, 123
London Buses route 123

London Buses route 123 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Arriva London...
, 128, 150, 167
London Buses route 167

London Buses route 167 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Go-Ahead London....
, 179, 296, 396 and 462.

Current condition

One of the southeastern entrances (on the corner of the A12 Eastern Avenue and A123 Cranbrook Road) to the pedestrian subway was destroyed and therefore closed since a car crashed into this entrance on 23 March 2008. No repairs to this entrance were carried out for many months, but as of January 2009, the entrance has been repaired and reopened.

In Summer 2007 the station was regularly closed because of flooding.

External links

  • - Entrance to station in 1953, with low roof of ticket hall visible in background


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