Blackhorse Road station

Blackhorse Road
Blackhorse Road Location of Blackhorse Road in Greater London
Location	Walthamstow
Local authority	London Borough of Waltham Forest
Managed by	London Underground
Owner	London Underground Network Rail
Station code	BHO
DfT category	E
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	3
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	7.30 million
2013	7.90 million
2014	8.63 million
2015	8.36 million
National Rail annual entry and exit
2011–12	0.669 million
2012–13	0.828 million
2013–14	0.814 million
2014–15	1.102 million
2015–16	2.014 million
Key dates
1894	National Rail opened
1968	Victoria line started
1981	BR station resited
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°35′13″N 0°02′29″W / 51.586944°N 0.041389°W / 51.586944; -0.041389Coordinates: 51°35′13″N 0°02′29″W / 51.586944°N 0.041389°W / 51.586944; -0.041389

Blackhorse Road is a London Overground and London Underground station located at the junction of Blackhorse Road/Blackhorse Lane with Forest Road in the Walthamstow neighbourhood of the London Borough of Waltham Forest, London, England. The station is on the Victoria line of the London Underground and is the penultimate station on the eastern end of that line. Above ground, the station is located approximately at the midpoint of the Gospel Oak to Barking Line (GOBLIN) of the London Overground.

The station is in Travelcard Zone 3 and is the least used station on the Victoria line with 6.44 million passengers per year.

Ticket barriers control access to all platforms. Passengers using Oyster cards are required to tap on an interchange Oyster card reader when transferring between the two lines.

The station was opened on 9 July 1894 by the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway and was originally situated east of Blackhorse Road. The station was resited by British Rail on 14 December 1981 to provide better interchange with the tube station which had opened on 1 September 1968.

The station contains two underground platforms for the Victoria line and two for the London Overground. Due to budget restraints at the time of construction, the underground station, like many stations on the Victoria line, was never completely finished to the standard of other lines. White ceiling panels were never fixed to the ceilings above the platforms; instead the steel tunnel segments were painted black and used to support the fixtures and fittings. This has had a detrimental effect on the lighting levels.

There are two distinct works of art at the station, both depicting black horses, in reference to the station's name. One is in the form of a tile motif depicting a black horse on a white cameo against a light blue background, identical to the Victoria line's colour. It was done by Hans Unger, who also did the tile motif at Seven Sisters tube station. The other is a mural of a black horse outside the station's entrance, by David McFall.