Mile End tube station
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox London station Mile End is a London Underground station in Mile End, London. It is located in Travelcard Zone 2 and is served by three lines: Central, District and Hammersmith & City. On the Central line, the station is between Bethnal Green and Stratford stations. On the District and Hammersmith & City lines, it is between Stepney Green and Bow Road stations. This station features a cross-platform interchange in both directions; District and Hammersmith & City lines stop on the inside tracks, and the Central line stops on the outside tracks.
HistoryEdit
The station was opened on 2 June 1902 by the Whitechapel & Bow Railway (W&BR) in the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. Electrified services started in 1905. The first services were provided by the District Railway (now the District line); the Metropolitan line followed in 1936 (In 1988 this section of the Metropolitan was renamed the Hammersmith & City line). In 1946, the station was expanded and rebuilt by the Chief Architect of London Underground, Stanley Heaps and his assistant Thomas Bilbow, as part of the Central line eastern extension, with services starting on 4 December 1946. Following nationalisation of the joint venture owners of the W&BR, full ownership of the station passed to London Underground in 1950.<ref name="LT transfer">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref group="note">The Whitechapel & Bow Railway was a joint venture company originally owned by the District Railway (DR) and the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR). The original two parties were each taken over more than once. The DR was a subsidiary of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, which became part of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933, which became part of the London Transport Executive (LTE) on nationalisation in 1948. The LTSR was taken over by the Midland Railway in 1920 which was merged into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 and nationalised into British Railways (BR) in 1948. Both the LTE and BR were controlled by the British Transport Commission.</ref>
During the development of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in the 1980s, it was to be a tram system. The preferred northern option was to run the DLR along Mile End Road towards a terminus at Mile End tube station. However the Stratford route was picked and the system became a light metro instead.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The station has undergone renovation in 2007. Metronet, a company in a public–private partnership with Transport for London (TfL), got as far as stripping the station bare before the company collapsed in 2008. After a short changeover period, TfL continued the renovation work.<ref name="renovation">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On 5 July 2007, a Central line train was derailed when it hit a roll of fire blanket, which had been blown out of a cross-passage between the two tunnels by the strong crosswinds.<ref name="RAIB">Template:Cite book</ref>
In November 2009, part of a plastic barrier broke off from a departing Central line train and struck three commuters.<ref name="bbc_8366005">Template:Cite news</ref> One woman suffered a Template:Cvt cut in her forehead, and London Underground Ltd faced a fine of up to £20,000 after admitting liability in the case.<ref name="londonist_2010-09">Template:Cite news</ref>
Design and layoutEdit
Template:Mile End–Bow Road tube station Mile End is the only station underground on the Tube network that offers cross-platform interchange between deep level tube (Central line) and sub-surface (District and Hammersmith & City lines) trains.<ref group="note">Barons Court offers cross-platform interchange between the deep-level Piccadilly tube line and the sub-surface District line. However, although this station is in a deep cutting, it is actually Template:Cvt west of the Piccadilly line tunnel portal.</ref> The station takes its name from the A11 Mile End Road, which itself is named after a milestone marking the point Template:Convert east of the boundary of the City of London. However, the stone's position was actually closer to Stepney Green than Mile End station itself, which is further east, on the junction with Burdett Road.
Notable local placesEdit
The station is close to Victoria Park and Mile End Park, as well as the Regent's Canal. Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Hospital and the now-closed St. Clements Hospital—part of the Royal London Hospital—are nearby.
ConnectionsEdit
The station is served by London Buses daytime and night routes.
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