Blake Hall tube station
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It was opened in 1865 and named after Blake Hall, a country house located a mile or so to the northeast and inhabited by the Capel-Cure family of substantial local land-owners. The station was closed in 1981.
History
Blake Hall station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 24 April 1865,[3] serving principally as a goods yard carrying agricultural produce from the nearby farms into London.[4] Steam locomotives operated by British Railways for the Underground ran a shuttle service from Epping to Ongar, stopping at Blake Hall, from 1949 until 1957, when the line was electrified and taken over by the Underground's Central line.[5] On 18 April 1966 the goods yard was closed and Blake Hall became a dedicated passenger station. On 17 October 1966, Sunday services were withdrawn.[6]
Blake Hall became reputed as the least-used station on the entire Underground network Script error: No such module "Unsubst".. Fare subsidies provided on the rest of the system were not provided on this part of the line because local government agencies for Essex and London failed to agree on their respective public transport responsibilities, and Blake Hall station was located a considerable distance from any substantial settlement. By the time the last train ran on 31 October 1981,[7] the station was reported to have only 17 passengers per day. It was permanently closed on 2 November 1981.[8] The Epping to Ongar branch line was closed 13 years later, on 30 September 1994.[9]
Blake Hall's station building has since been converted into a private home[2] and the line passing the station site is now privately owned and operated as a heritage railway by the Epping Ongar Railway. The platform was demolished after closure. A short section of the platform was later reinstated in May 2012 but this is for aesthetic purposes only, and the station remains closed.[10][11]
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External links
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- Disused London Underground stations
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- Epping Ongar Railway
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