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Douglas Road, LONDON, E4 6DA

View away from buffer-stops, towards London (Liverpool St.): ex-GE terminus of important suburban line via Hackney Downs. Here the station is nicely spruced up and one of the new EMUs is seen on the far side.

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Twenty three years after Neil's Image the bus on the Number 97 service in the centre of the photograph is still waiting to depart for Leyton, while the single decker on the Number 313 service is bound for Potters Bar Station. Chingford railway station is immediately to the right.

This is the terminus of the line from Liverpool Street, completed in 1878. Journeys to Liverpool Street are scheduled at 26 minutes from here. Two different styles of units operated by One Railway await departure, 317660 on the left, 315860 on the right. Just out of sight to the right but on the trackbed beyond the buffers and the trellis fencing is a small garden.

Looking towards the station building from platforms 1 and 2. On the left (platform 1) is a class 315 still in Network South East livery. At Platform 2 on the right sits another class 315 in promotional livery for family travelcard and "Interlink".

Opened in 1878 by the Great Eastern Railway on its line from London Liverpool Street to Chingford, to replace an earlier station 600m further south. Forecourt. The station was built with an extension northwards in mind, but this never came about.

Passenger trains were extended from Shernhall Street in Walthamstow to serve the Chingford terminus in Bull Lane (now King's Road) over a single track which opened on 17th November 1873. As it was intended to extend this branch to High Beech, there was just a temporary wooden structure at Chingford and locomotives were watered from an old farm pond. With the opening of the extension, the platform at Shernhall Street was closed and replaced by a permanent station at Wood Street. The permanent terminus at Chingford on the very edge of Epping Forest was opened on 2nd September 1878 at some distance north of the original. It possessed a large station house on the down side. It had been intended to extend the line via Sewardstone to High Beech but this coincided with Queen Victoria travelling in the royal train on the Chingford line on 6th May 1883 to declare Epping Forest open to the public. In the excitement, opposition to the desecration of the Forest by a railway killed the extension off once and for all. The platforms at Chingford were extended in the 1920s and four new carriage sidings provided. Chingford was a popular resort for North Londoners at summer weekends and on Bank Holidays and as many as 100,000 people would use the station on a Bank Holiday until just after the First World War. Chingford station has the two platforms seen here as well as extensive carriage sidings. This view looks in the direction of Walthamstow Central and Liverpool Street. The weather was cold and wet all day and was quite as miserable as it looks.