Newbury Park tube station
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| name = Newbury Park
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| manager = London Underground
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| locale = Newbury Park
| borough = London Borough of Redbridge
| platforms = 2
| fare_zone = 4
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| image_name = Newbury Park stn bus shelter2.JPG
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| caption = Grade II listed bus shelter
| coordinates = {{coord|51|34|32|N|00|05|24|E|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
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| years1 = 1 May 1903
| years2 = 1923
| years3 = 29 November 1947
| years4 = 14 December 1947
| years5 = 31 May 1948
| events1 = Opened (GER)
| events2 = GER services ceased, LNER services started
| events3 = Closed (LNER)
| events4 = Opened as terminus (Central line)
| events5 = Became through station
| years6 = 4 October 1965
| events6 = Goods yard closed{{cite journal|title=How it used to be – freight on The Underground 50 years ago|journal=Underground News|date=March 2011|issue=591|pages=175–183|editor1-first=Brian|editor1-last=Hardy|publisher=London Underground Railway Society|issn=0306-8617}}
| listing_detail = Bus shelter
| listing_grade = II
| listing_start = 19 March 1981
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| listing_entry = 1081019
| listing_reference = {{ NHLE | num= 1081019 | access-date= 12 November 2012 }}
| access = yes
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Newbury Park is a London Underground station in Newbury Park, Ilford, north-east London. It is on the Hainault loop of the Central line between Gants Hill and Barkingside stations, and is located in Travelcard Zone 4.
The station was initially opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 1 May 1903 and subsequently transferred its services to the London and North Eastern Railway due to the amalgamation. Underground trains only started serving the station on 14 December 1947, operating via the Gants Hill tunnel. The line was extended to Hainault on 31 May 1948. The Grade II listed bus shelter designed by Oliver Hill opened on 6 July 1949. Lifts were fully installed at Newbury Park in November 2018 to provide step-free access to the station, approximately 10 years after TfL abandoned the project.
Geography
Newbury Park station is located in Newbury Park (in 1903 known as the Horns) of northeastern Ilford in the London Borough of Redbridge. It was built to serve the growing neighbourhood of Newbury Park where the earliest settlement, Birkbeck Estate, dates back to the 1880s.{{cite web |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol5/pp249-266#h3-0002 |title=The Borough of Ilford |work=A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5 |publisher=Victoria County History |pages=249–266 |year=1966}} When Eastern Avenue was completed through Newbury Park as a bypass in 1920,{{cite book|last1=Inwood|first1=Steve|title=City of Cities: The Birth of Modern London|date=2011|publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=978-0330540674}} development sprung-up around the area.{{cite web |url=http://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/newbury-park/ |title=Newbury Park, Redbridge |website=Hidden London (extracted from Chambers London Gazetteer) |access-date=25 November 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125132802/http://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/newbury-park/ |archive-date=25 November 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://www.francisfrith.com/newbury-park/maps |title=Old Maps of Newbury Park (Ordnance Survey Maps) |website=Francis Frith |url-status=live |access-date=25 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125133135/https://www.francisfrith.com/newbury-park/maps |archive-date=25 November 2018}} Nearby landmarks include Oaks Park High School, Aldborough Primary School, St. Theresa Roman Catholic Church, Ilford War Memorial Gardens and Holiday Inn Express Hotel.{{cite map |url=https://www.google.com.my/maps/@51.5753083,0.089825,409m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en |title=Newbury Park |website=Google Maps |access-date=25 November 2018}}
Newbury Park station has two car parks; one connects to King George Avenue and the other to Eastern Avenue. Entrance to the station is via the bus shelter.
History
Newbury Park originally opened on 1 May 1903, as part of a Great Eastern Railway (GER) branch line from Woodford to Ilford via Hainault, known as the Fairlop Loop (now known as Hainault loop).{{sfn|Connor|2007|p=IV}}{{cite map |url=http://carto.metro.free.fr/documents/CartoMetroLondon.v3.7.pdf |title=Greater London Transport Tracks Map |work=CartoMetro London Edition |version=3.7 |last=Jarrier |first=Franklin |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118092031/http://carto.metro.free.fr/documents/CartoMetroLondon.v3.7.pdf |archive-date=18 November 2018}}{{#tag:ref|The line initial operated as a goods service on 20 April 1903.{{sfn|Connor|2007|p=IV}}|group=note}} This line, designed to stimulate suburban growth, had chequered success. In the 1920s, only areas such as Newbury Park were decently populated.{{cite web |url=http://www.cravensheritagetrains.co.uk/history.htm |title=Railways to Epping and Ongar |website=Cravens Heritage Trains |date=1 October 2011 |access-date=25 November 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125134852/http://www.cravensheritagetrains.co.uk/history.htm |archive-date=25 November 2018 }}{{#tag:ref|As a result, Hainault station was closed in 1920 and reopened in 1930.|group=note}} As a consequence of the Railways Act 1921, the GER was merged with other railway companies in 1923 to become part of the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER).{{cite web | url = http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/11-12/55/enacted| publisher = HMSO| date = 19 August 1921| title = Railways Act 1921}} A new station building was built by the LNER which replaced the original GER building.{{cite web |url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-86748?&apiurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubHRtdXNldW0uY28udWsvcGhvdG9ncmFwaHM/c2hvcnQ9MSZza2lwPTAmbGltaXQ9NDgmcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms=&searchpage=Y29sbGVjdGlvbnMvY29sbGVjdGlvbnMtb25saW5lL3Bob3RvZ3JhcGhzL3BhZ2UvMT8mcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms= |title=Newbury Park Underground station, Central line by Topical Press |date=August 1935 |website=London Transport Museum |access-date=1 December 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201101503/https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-86748?&apiurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubHRtdXNldW0uY28udWsvcGhvdG9ncmFwaHM%2Fc2hvcnQ9MSZza2lwPTAmbGltaXQ9NDgmcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms%3D&searchpage=Y29sbGVjdGlvbnMvY29sbGVjdGlvbnMtb25saW5lL3Bob3RvZ3JhcGhzL3BhZ2UvMT8mcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms%3D |archive-date=1 December 2018 }}
As part of the 1935–1940 "New Works Programme" of the London Passenger Transport Board, the majority of the loop, including the station, was to be transferred to form part of the eastern extensions of the Central line.{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=116}} Although work commenced in 1938,{{cite web |url=http://www.gants-hill.com/gallery/ |title=Old Photos of Gants Hill |access-date=22 October 2018 |publisher=Speedprint Essex Ltd |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022094500/http://www.gants-hill.com/gallery/ |archive-date=22 October 2018}} it was suspended upon the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and work only recommenced in 1945.{{sfn|Croome|Jackson|1993|p=288}} This involved the construction of a new tube tunnel from Leytonstone via Redbridge which surfaced at Newbury Park to connect with the lines of the existing Ilford to Woodford branch.{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=116}} During the war, a part of the constructed tunnel system was used as an underground aircraft munitions factory, and was used as an air raid shelter.{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=142}}{{cite web |title= Remembrance Sunday: The Secret Munitions Factory in the Underground tunnels at Gants Hill |publisher=Ilford Recorder |url=http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/heritage/remembrance_sunday_the_secret_munitions_factory_in_the_underground_tunnels_at_gants_hill_1_1687872 |date=10 November 2012 |access-date=24 August 2017 |archive-date=24 August 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824114623/http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/heritage/remembrance-sunday-the-secret-munitions-factory-in-the-underground-tunnels-at-gants-hill-1-1687872}}{{#tag:ref|The factory, located between Gants Hill and Redbridge opened in March 1942 which provided employment for 2,000 people;{{sfn|Day|Reed|2010|p=142}} production lasted until 1945.{{cite web |title= Remembrance Sunday: The Secret Munitions Factory in the Underground tunnels at Gants Hill |publisher=Ilford Recorder |url=http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/heritage/remembrance_sunday_the_secret_munitions_factory_in_the_underground_tunnels_at_gants_hill_1_1687872 |date=10 November 2012 |access-date=24 August 2017 |archive-date=24 August 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824114623/http://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/heritage/remembrance-sunday-the-secret-munitions-factory-in-the-underground-tunnels-at-gants-hill-1-1687872}} The factory extended almost 5 miles with about 300,000 sq. ft. of space.{{cite magazine |magazine=The Railway Magazine |date=May–June 1946 |page=160 |issue=563 |volume=92 |location=Westminster |publisher=Railway Publishing Co |title=Factory in an Uncompleted London Tube Tunnel }}|group=note}}
Steam train services serving Newbury Park were permanently suspended after 29 November 1947. Electrified Central line passenger services to Central London via Gants Hill finally commenced on 14 December 1947.{{sfn|Connor|2007|p=IV}}{{sfn|Croome|Jackson|1993|p=287, 291}}{{#tag:ref|Leytonstone to Woodford (via South Woodford) opened on the same day, forming two branches in the eastern region of the Central line.{{sfn|Croome|Jackson|1993|p=287, 291}}{{cite web |last=Feather |first=Clive |access-date=24 August 2017 |date= 19 June 2017 |url=http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/central.html |work=Clive's Underground Line Guides |title=Central line |archive-date=24 August 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824154140/http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/central.html}} A replacement bus service operated between Woodford and Ilford via Hainault when steam train services ceased. It was cut back to Newbury Park when these extensions opened.{{cite web |url=http://www.lurs.org.uk/articles14_htm_files/2%20the%20central%20line%20extensions%20and%20their%20implementations.pdf |title=The Central line extensions and their implementations |last=Stuart |first=Eric |access-date=1 December 2018 |url-status=live |publisher=London Underground Railway Society |work=Points of Interest |pages=7, 8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201080231/http://www.lurs.org.uk/articles14_htm_files/2%20the%20central%20line%20extensions%20and%20their%20implementations.pdf |archive-date=1 December 2018}}|group=note}} Lord Ashfield, former chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board, and local dignitaries attended the opening ceremony of the extension.{{cite web |url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-41026?&apiurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubHRtdXNldW0uY28udWsvcGhvdG9ncmFwaHM/c2hvcnQ9MSZza2lwPTAmbGltaXQ9NDgmcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms=&searchpage=Y29sbGVjdGlvbnMvY29sbGVjdGlvbnMtb25saW5lL3Bob3RvZ3JhcGhzL3BhZ2UvMT8mcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms= |title=Lord Ashfield and local dignitaries at the opening ceremony of the Woodford – Newbury Park section of the Central line eastern extension |date=14 December 1947 |website=London Transport Museum |url-status=live |access-date=1 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201103949/https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-41026?&apiurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubHRtdXNldW0uY28udWsvcGhvdG9ncmFwaHM%2Fc2hvcnQ9MSZza2lwPTAmbGltaXQ9NDgmcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms%3D&searchpage=Y29sbGVjdGlvbnMvY29sbGVjdGlvbnMtb25saW5lL3Bob3RvZ3JhcGhzL3BhZ2UvMT8mcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms%3D |archive-date=1 December 2018 }} A train crew depot was established on 30 November 1947 but closed on 2 November 1953. In addition, the line beyond, to the new Hainault depot, was electrified for empty train movements.{{cite web |url=http://www.lurs.org.uk/articles15_htm_files/01%20may%20FROM%20THE%20PAST.pdf |title=From The Past |work=Points of Interest |publisher=London Underground Railway Society |url-status=live |access-date=1 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201085105/http://www.lurs.org.uk/articles15_htm_files/01%20may%20FROM%20THE%20PAST.pdf |archive-date=1 December 2018}} The station ceased to be the temporary terminus of the Central line on 31 May 1948 with passenger services to Hainault station reopened.{{sfn |Lee |1970|p=map}}{{sfn|Croome|Jackson|1993|p=294}} The surface tracks from Newbury Park to Ilford were severed by the expansion of Ilford Carriage Sheds in 1947,{{sfn|Croome|Jackson|1993|p=291}} whilst those to Seven Kings were severed in 1956.{{sfn|Connor|2007|p=IV}}{{sfn|Brennand|2006|p=IV}} The former alignment was in a cutting which was filled in and subsequently provided land for allotment gardens and housing. Three road bridges (Vicarage Lane, Benton Road and Wards Road) spanning an apparently missing alignment are the only clues to the old railway.{{#tag:ref|South of Newbury Park, the row of houses and allotment gardens follow the alignment of the old railway and ends near the demolished Ilford and Seven Kings junction, seen on the map.|group=note}}
Goods services used to run from the station via Woodford to Temple Mills,{{sfn|Croome|Jackson|1993|p=296}} reversed via a turn-back siding south of the station until 1965,{{sfn|Brennand|2006|p=10}}{{sfn|Connor|2007|p=115}} and by Underground engineering trains until 1992 when it was finally abandoned.{{sfn|Connor|2007|p=117}} An unelectrified track existed next to the 9 sidings which was a reception track to Barkingside goods yard. With the freight yard closed on 4 October 1965, these were demolished on 12 October 1969.
North of the station, the tracks were rearranged upon transfer to London Underground such that the existing tracks were separated further apart, where the former through eastbound track became a reversing siding, though retaining the connection towards Barkingside, whilst through trains use a track formerly part of the sidings and freight yard built to the west of the running lines. The northern end of the platforms were truncated to facilitate insertion of the points-work for the re-arrangement. Nine stabling sidings were added to the northwest of the station, connected to the westbound track via a flat crossing and another reversing siding in between the through tracks in autumn 1947. These did not last: The Hainault depot having fully opened in 1948, seven sidings were abandoned on 25 September 1949, and were closed and demolished on 30 January 1955. The remaining two were abandoned on 24 January 1966 and demolished on 12 October 1969.
Station features
File:GER bracketry Newbury Park.JPG
Newbury Park's most prominent feature is the bus shelter connected to the station entrance, designed by Oliver Hill in 1937, and opened on 6 July 1949. Distinguished by a copper-covered barrel-vaulted roof, the structure is a Grade II listed building and won a Festival of Britain architectural award in 1951. The award was marked by a plaque by the side of the shelter.{{cite web |url=https://150greatthingsabouttheunderground.com/2012/03/13/5-the-bus-station-at-newbury-park/ |title=5. The Bus Station at Newbury Park |work=150 Great Things About the Underground |last=Jones |first=Ian |date=13 March 2012 |access-date=1 December 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201064142/https://150greatthingsabouttheunderground.com/2012/03/13/5-the-bus-station-at-newbury-park/ |archive-date=1 December 2018}} The LNER station building, which looked very similar to Chigwell (further north on the Loop), was demolished in 1956 to facilitate widening of the adjacent A12 Eastern Avenue.{{sfn|Connor|2007|p=114}}{{#tag:ref|Another similar building existed at Grange Hill, but this was destroyed by a German V-1 flying bomb in 1944.{{sfn|Connor|2007|p=94}}|group=note}} The station features GER insignia just beneath the platform canopies,{{cite web |url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/2001-51144?&apiurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubHRtdXNldW0uY28udWsvcGhvdG9ncmFwaHM/c2hvcnQ9MSZza2lwPTAmbGltaXQ9NDgmcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms=&searchpage=Y29sbGVjdGlvbnMvY29sbGVjdGlvbnMtb25saW5lL3Bob3RvZ3JhcGhzL3BhZ2UvMT8mcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms= |title=Newbury Park Underground station, station canopy detail |last=Praverman |first=Adam |date=3 July 2001 |access-date=1 December 2018 |url-status=live |website=London Transport Museum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201104044/https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/2001-51144?&apiurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubHRtdXNldW0uY28udWsvcGhvdG9ncmFwaHM%2Fc2hvcnQ9MSZza2lwPTAmbGltaXQ9NDgmcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms%3D&searchpage=Y29sbGVjdGlvbnMvY29sbGVjdGlvbnMtb25saW5lL3Bob3RvZ3JhcGhzL3BhZ2UvMT8mcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms%3D |archive-date=1 December 2018 }} and has a London Transport canteen adjoining the entrance.{{cite web |url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-63822?&apiurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubHRtdXNldW0uY28udWsvcGhvdG9ncmFwaHM/c2hvcnQ9MSZza2lwPTAmbGltaXQ9NDgmcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms=&searchpage=Y29sbGVjdGlvbnMvY29sbGVjdGlvbnMtb25saW5lL3Bob3RvZ3JhcGhzL3BhZ2UvMT8mcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms= |title=Westbound platform, Newbury Park station |url-status=live |website=London Transport Museum |date=24 October 1955 |access-date=1 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201104735/https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-63822?&apiurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubHRtdXNldW0uY28udWsvcGhvdG9ncmFwaHM%2Fc2hvcnQ9MSZza2lwPTAmbGltaXQ9NDgmcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms%3D&searchpage=Y29sbGVjdGlvbnMvY29sbGVjdGlvbnMtb25saW5lL3Bob3RvZ3JhcGhzL3BhZ2UvMT8mcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms%3D |archive-date=1 December 2018 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-47165?&apiurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubHRtdXNldW0uY28udWsvcGhvdG9ncmFwaHM/c2hvcnQ9MSZza2lwPTAmbGltaXQ9NDgmcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms=&searchpage=Y29sbGVjdGlvbnMvY29sbGVjdGlvbnMtb25saW5lL3Bob3RvZ3JhcGhzL3BhZ2UvMT8mcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms= |title=View of the kitchens at Newbury Park canteen |last1=Dell |last2=Wainwright |url-status=live |website=London Transport Museum |date=1949 |access-date=1 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201104945/https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-47165?&apiurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkubHRtdXNldW0uY28udWsvcGhvdG9ncmFwaHM%2Fc2hvcnQ9MSZza2lwPTAmbGltaXQ9NDgmcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms%3D&searchpage=Y29sbGVjdGlvbnMvY29sbGVjdGlvbnMtb25saW5lL3Bob3RvZ3JhcGhzL3BhZ2UvMT8mcT1OZXdidXJ5K1Bhcms%3D |archive-date=1 December 2018 }}
Step-free access
In 2009, because of financial constraints, TfL decided to stop work on a project to provide step-free access at Newbury Park and five other stations, on the grounds that these are relatively quiet stations and some are already one or two stops away from an existing step-free station.{{cite web |url=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/Disability-and-deaf-equality-scheme-accessible-version-2009-12.doc |publisher=Transport for London |title=Disability and Deaf Equality Scheme (DES) 2009–2012 |access-date=1 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006092855/http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/Disability-and-deaf-equality-scheme-accessible-version-2009-12.doc |archive-date=6 October 2012}}{{#tag:ref|Hainault station, which has had step-free access since 2010, is three stops to the north.{{cite press release |url=https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2010/march/hainault-tube-station-is-now-stepfree-with-three-new-lifts |title=Hainault Tube station is Now Step-free with Three New Lifts |date=3 March 2010 |access-date=29 November 2018 |publisher=Transport for London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129130943/https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2010/march/hainault-tube-station-is-now-stepfree-with-three-new-lifts |archive-date=29 November 2018}}|group=note}} £4.6 million was spent on Newbury Park before the project was halted.{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tfl-wastes-64million-abandoning-disabled-access-plans-on-the-tube-6461277.html|newspaper=Evening Standard|location=London|date=21 April 2010|title=TfL wastes £64 million abandoning disabled access plans on the Tube|access-date=6 December 2010}} In 2017, as part of the Mayor of London's plan to increase the number of step-free stations,{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/sadiq-khan-promises-200m-boost-for-stepfree-tube-stations-a3413271.html |title=Sadiq Khan Promises £200m Boost for Step-free Tube stations |date=6 December 2016 |newspaper=Evening Standard|location=London |url-status=live |access-date=29 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129133713/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/sadiq-khan-promises-200m-boost-for-stepfree-tube-stations-a3413271.html |archive-date=29 November 2018}} work recommenced on the project to install a lift to both platforms, with the project scheduled for completion in spring 2019.{{cite news |url=https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/15168358.station-disabled-access-work-to-finish-two-years-later-than-planned-campaigners-claim/ |title=Work on disabled access at Newbury Park Tube Station will finish in 2019 – two years after Mayor Sadiq Khan promised, campaigners claim |date=20 March 2017 |url-status=live |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=29 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129134117/https://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/15168358.station-disabled-access-work-to-finish-two-years-later-than-planned-campaigners-claim/ |archive-date=29 November 2018}}{{#tag:ref|Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, initially promised residents that the lifts would be completed in 2017. However, the target was deemed "too optimistic" by local residents campaigning for step-free access at the station.|group=note}} The lifts' installation works were completed ahead of schedule and became operational in November 2018.{{cite news |url=https://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/politics/mayor-of-london-visits-newbury-park-lift-1-5782725 |title=Lift Off: Mayor of London Visits New Step-free Newbury Park Station |publisher=Ilford Recorder |date=16 November 2018 |access-date=24 November 2018 |url-status=live |archive-date=24 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124151550/https://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/politics/mayor-of-london-visits-newbury-park-lift-1-5782725}}
Services and connections
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Newbury Park station is on the Hainault loop of the Central line between Gants Hill and Barkingside. Train frequencies vary throughout the day but generally run every 5 minutes westbound between 05:20 and 23:54 and eastbound between 06:28 and 01:05.{{cite web |url=https://tfl.gov.uk/tube/timetable/central?FromId=940GZZLUGTH&fromText=Gants+Hill+Underground+Station&toText=Redbridge+Underground+Station&ToId=940GZZLURBG&SelectedTime=5 |title=Central line timetable : From Gants Hill Underground station to Redbridge Underground station |website=Transport for London |access-date=5 February 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://tfl.gov.uk/tube/timetable/central?fromText=Gants+Hill+Underground+Station&toText=Newbury+Park+Underground+Station&FromId=940GZZLUGTH&ToId=940GZZLUNBP&btnGo=Go&SelectedDate=mondaytothursday&SelectedTime=0&direction= |title=Central line timetable : From Gants Hill Underground station to Newbury Park Underground station |website=Transport for London |access-date=5 February 2018}}
Trains generally run between Hainault and Ealing Broadway, although during service disruptions, trains can also run to West Ruislip. The typical off-peak service, in trains per hour as of 2018 is:
- 9tph westbound to Ealing Broadway
- 3tph westbound to White City
- 9tph eastbound to Hainault.
Trains also terminate here from White City 3 times an hour and use the crossover and siding to re-enter service westbound to White City. The siding is to the north of Newbury Park, accessible from both tracks near the station. Another crossover connects to the northbound track at the other end of the siding.
Night Tube operates through this station on Friday and Saturday nights since August 2016.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-37108375 |title=Night Tube begins in London, bringing 'huge boost' to capital |publisher=BBC News |url-status=live |access-date=29 November 2018 |date=20 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129141120/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-37108375 |archive-date=29 November 2018}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/19/sadiq-khan-launch-london-night-tube-service |title=Sadiq Khan to launch London's night tube service |date=19 August 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=29 November 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129141339/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/19/sadiq-khan-launch-london-night-tube-service |archive-date=29 November 2018}} The typical Night tube service, in trains per hour as of 2018 is:{{cite web |url=https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/what-we-are-doing/night-tube |title=The Night Tube |work=Improving the Tube – What We're Doing |publisher=Transport for London |access-date=6 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206125808/https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/what-we-are-doing/night-tube |archive-date=6 February 2018 |url-status=live}}
- 3tph eastbound to Hainault
- 3tph westbound to White City
=Connections=
London Buses routes 66, 296 and 396 serve the station directly. Route 296 operates 24 hours on Friday and Saturday nights.{{cite web |url=http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/newbury-park-a4-0716.pdf |title=Buses from Newbury Park |date=June 2016 |url-status=dead |access-date=28 November 2018 |publisher=Transport for London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128081421/http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/newbury-park-a4-0716.pdf |archive-date=28 November 2018 }}
Notes and references
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=References=
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=Books=
- {{cite book |last=Brennand|first=Dave|title=Ilford to Shenfield|year=2006|publisher=Middleton Press|isbn=1-901706-97-4 }}
- {{cite book |first=J E |last=Connor |title=Branch Line to Ongar |publisher=Middleton Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-906008-05-5 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Croome |first1=D. |last2=Jackson |first2=A. |title=Rails Through The Clay – A History of London's Tube Railways |edition=2nd |year=1993 |publisher=Capital Transport |isbn=1-85414-151-1 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Day |first1=John R. |last2=Reed |first2=John |title=The Story of London's Underground |edition=11th |year=2010 |orig-year=1963 |publisher=Capital Transport |isbn=978-1-85414-341-9 }}
- {{cite book
|first=Charles E |last=Lee
|title=Seventy Years of the Central
|year=1970
|publisher=London Transport Executive
|isbn=978-0-85329-013-1
}}
External links
{{commons category|Newbury Park tube station}}
- [https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs London Transport Museum Photographic Archive]
- {{LTM archive|1998-86748|Newbury Park station, 1933}}
- {{LTM archive|1998-71191|Bus Station shortly after opening, 1949}}
- {{LTM archive|1998-63822|Westbound platform, 1955}}
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