Newbury Park tube station

Newbury Park
Grade II listed bus shelter
Newbury Park Location of Newbury Park in Greater London
Location	Newbury Park
Local authority	London Borough of Redbridge
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	4
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	3.93 million
2013	4.40 million
2014	4.62 million
2015	4.33 million
Key dates
1903	Opened (GER)
1947	Closed (LNER)
1947	Opened as terminus (Central line)
1948	Became through station
4 October 1965	Goods yard closed
Listed status
Listed feature	Bus shelter
Listing grade	II
Entry number	1081019
Added to list	19 March 1981
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°34′30″N 0°05′22″E / 51.5749°N 0.0895°E / 51.5749; 0.0895Coordinates: 51°34′30″N 0°05′22″E / 51.5749°N 0.0895°E / 51.5749; 0.0895

Newbury Park is a London Underground station in Newbury Park, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is on the Hainault loop of the Central line, in Zone 4.

Newbury Park originally opened on 1 May 1903, as part of a Great Eastern Railway (GER) branch line from Woodford to Ilford via Hainault, known as the Fairlop Loop. This line, designed to stimulate suburban growth, had a chequered career. As a consequence of the Railways Act 1921, the GER was merged with other railway companies in 1923 to become part of the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER).

As part of the 1935–1940 "New Works Programme" of the London Passenger Transport Board the majority of the loop was to be transferred to form the eastern extensions of the Central line. Although work commenced in 1938 it was suspended upon the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and work only recommenced in 1945. This involved the construction of a new tube tunnel from Leytonstone via Redbridge which surfaced at Newbury Park to connect with the lines of the existing Ilford – Woodford branch.

Steam train services serving Newbury Park were suspended on 29 November 1947 and electrified Central line passenger services, to Central London via Gants Hill, finally commenced on 14 December 1947. On the same day the line beyond, to the new Hainault depot, was electrified for empty train movements. The station ceased to be the temporary terminus of the Central line on 31 May 1948 with the extension of passenger services to Hainault station. The surface tracks from Newbury Park to Ilford were severed by expansion of Ilford Carriage Sheds in 1947, whilst those to Seven Kings were severed in 1956. The former alignment was in a cutting which was filled in and subsequently provided land for allotment gardens and (more recently) housing. Three road bridges apparently spanning a missing alignment are the only clues to the old railway. The last vestige of the former line was a turn-back siding south of the station, used by main-line freight trains travelling around the loop from Woodford until 1965, and by Underground engineering trains until 1992 when it was finally abandoned.