Loughton Station, Essex: Unusual Bricks, Unique Design

摘要

Loughton Station, south-west Essex was started in 1939 and opened on 28 April 1940, replacing a Great Eastern Railway station of 1865, which itself had superseded an Eastern Counties Railway station of 1856. At the time of building, as a consequence of the 1923 Grouping of railway companies following the Railways Act of 1921, the station lay on London & North Eastern Railway tracks, though it was erected as part of the proposed transfer to London Transport's Central Line. Because of World War II (1939-1945) and its immediate aftermath, the transfer was not effected until 2 November 1948.