View allAll Photos Tagged epp
Epping Underground Station, 13 July 2024. The station was built by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) and opened in April 1865 on their extension from Loughton and Ongar. The station was to a standard GER design for the period.
The London Passenger Transport Board’s New Works Programme of 1935 proposed extending the Central Line from its easternmost terminus at Liverpool Street through new tunnels to Stratford and thence (through further tunnels) over the ex-GER, now London & North Eastern Railway (LNER), branch from Leytonstone to Epping (and ultimately Ongar) which the LPTB would take over.
Although considerable works to the extension had begun by 1939, the outbreak of WWII put completion on hold. Post-war, works restarted and the Central Line reached Epping (and Ongar) in September 1949. The BR(ER) steam-hauled services south of Epping stopped at the same time.
Although the Central Line had notionally been extended to Ongar, initially it was unelectrified so a steam-hauled shuttle service was operated by BR(ER) on the London Transport Executive’s behalf. The line was eventually electrified in 1957, although the Epping – Ongar stretch was still operated as a shuttle service. Unfortunately, usage remained very light and this section of the Central Line closed in September 1994.
Pictured is the LNER lattice-work footbridge of late 1930’s.
Using Tsukineko All-Purpose Inks on fabric. Tutorial at: www.craftypod.com/2014/11/14/how-make-epp-colorwash-star-...
Reminiscent of a scene from the Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, or maybe a picture by Constable ? Shot in very poor light and high wind.
The Epping Ongar Railway is a heritage railway run by a small number of paid staff and team of volunteers in south-west Essex, England. It was the final section of the Great Eastern Railway branch line, later the London Underground's Central line from Loughton via Epping to Ongar, with intermediate stations at North Weald and Blake Hall. The line was closed by London Underground in 1994 and sold in 1998. It reopened between 2004 and 2007 as a preserved railway offering a volunteer-run Class 117 DMU service between Ongar and Coopersale. A change of ownership in 2007 led to the line being closed for restoration to a heritage steam railway, which opened on 25 May 2012.
Epping Forest is a 2,400-hectare (5,900-acre) area of ancient woodland between Epping in Essex to the north, and Forest Gate in Greater London to the south, straddling the border between London and Essex. It is a former royal forest, and is managed by the City of London Corporation. An area of 1,728 hectares (4,270 acres) is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation. It gives its name to the Epping Forest local government district, which covers part of it.
The forest is approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) long in the north-south direction, but no more than 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from east to west at its widest point, and in most places considerably narrower. It lies on a ridge between the valleys of the rivers Lea and Roding. It contains areas of woodland, grassland, heath, streams, bogs and ponds, and its elevation and thin gravelly soil (the result of glaciation) historically made it unsuitable for agriculture. The forest was saved from destruction in the late 19th century after popular protests prompted the City of London to take legal action to prevent enclosure.