Hainault Loop
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The Hainault Loop, originally opened as the Fairlop Loop, is a 6.5-mile branch line of the Great Eastern Railway. It once connected Woodford on the Ongar branch to Ilford on the Main Line, with an eas
GER bracketry still visible at Fairlop station
Grange Hill Tunnel looking east towards western portal.
Roding Valley (new building 1949)
Chigwell
Roding Valley tube station
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Roding Valley is a London Underground station. It is situated in Buckhurst Hill in the Epping Forest district of Essex. The station is on the Hainault loop of the Central line between Chigwell and Woo
Hainault Loop
…Fairlop Loop diverges from the Ongar (now Epping) Branch at Woodford Junction Roding Valley, opened 3 February 1936 as Roding Valley Halt by the LNER, closed 29 November 1947, re-opening 21 November 1948. Chigwell, opened 1 May 1903 by the…
Train arrives on a Hainault-bound service