Stepney Green tube station

Stepney Green
Stepney Green Location of Stepney Green in Greater London
Location	Stepney
Local authority	Tower Hamlets
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	4.68 million[1]
2013	5.00 million[1]
2014	5.43 million[1]
2015	5.85 million[1]
Railway companies
Original company	Whitechapel and Bow Railway
Key dates
1902	Opened
1950	Ownership transferred to London Transport
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°31′19″N 0°02′47″W / 51.521944°N 0.046389°WCoordinates: 51°31′19″N 0°02′47″W / 51.521944°N 0.046389°W
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Stepney Green is a London Underground station in Mile End Road in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Greater London. It is between Whitechapel and Mile End on the District line and the Hammersmith & City line, and is in Travelcard Zone 2.

History

The station was opened in 1902 by the Whitechapel and Bow Railway, a joint venture between the District Railway and the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. The new railway connected the District Railway at Whitechapel with the London, Tilbury and Southend at Bow.

Electrified District Railway services started in 1905. Hammersmith and City line services (then part of the Metropolitan line) started in 1936. The station passed to London Underground in 1950.^[2]

Design

It is a sub-surface station with two platforms. The ticket office is above ground and connected to the platforms by stairs. The layout and design of the station is largely unchanged with many original features intact. On the Westbound platform you will find one of the common countdown timers (found in most tube stations now) producing an estimated time of arrival (ETA) for the next train, however the Eastbound platform still has one of the old signs which merely indicates the intended destination of the next train, with no indication of the ETA.

Services

Hammersmith & City line

This is the general off-peak frequency.

• 6 tph eastbound to Barking
• 6 tph westbound to Hammersmith via King's Cross and Wood Lane

District line

This is the general off-peak frequency. During peak times trains also operate to Wimbledon. During off-peak times, 3 trains per hour from Wimbledon terminate at Barking (as of December 2014).

• 12 tph eastbound to Upminster (On Sundays alternate trains run to Barking only)
• 3 tph eastbound to Barking
• 6 tph westbound to Ealing Broadway
• 6 tph westbound to Richmond
• 3 tph westbound to Wimbledon

Circle line

There is no regular service however there are two trains per day that run from Barking to Edgware Road via Victoria before 6AM. (as of February 2015)

• 2 tpd westbound to Edgware Road via Victoria

Location

Stepney Green is one of the two stations (the other being Mile End) serving the nearby Mile End campus of Queen Mary, University of London use, as both stations are located at each side of it.

Connections

London Buses routes 25, 205 and 309, and night route N205 serve the station.

References

1. "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLS). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. April 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
2. "Transport Act, 1947" (PDF). The London Gazette. 27 January 1950. p. 480. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-07-30.

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