Stepney Green tube station

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Stepney Green London Underground
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Stepney Green is located in Greater London
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Stepney Green

Location of Stepney Green in Greater London
Location Stepney
Local authority Tower Hamlets
Managed by London Underground
Number of platforms 2
Fare zone 2

London Underground annual entry and exit
2007 increase 4.033 million[1]
2008 increase 4.400 million[1]
2009 decrease 4.138 million[1]

1902 Opened

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Coordinates: 51°31′19″N 0°02′47″W / 51.521944°N 0.046389°W / 51.521944; -0.046389

Stepney Green is a London Underground station on the District and Hammersmith and City lines, located on the junction of Globe Road and Mile End Road in the Stepney area of east London, United Kingdom.

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[edit] History

The station was opened in 1902 by the Whitechapel & Bow Railway. Electrified services started in 1905. In 1923 ownership of the station passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, although services were provided by the District Line. Hammersmith and City line services (then part of the Metropolitan Line) started in 1936. The station passed to London Underground after nationalisation of the railways.

It is a sub surface station with two platforms. The ticket office is above ground and connected to the platforms by stairs. The layout and design of the station is largely unchanged with many original features intact. On the Westbound platform you will find one of the common countdown timers (found in most tube stations now) producing an estimated time of arrival (ETA) for the next train, however the Eastbound platform still has one of the old signs which merely indicates the intended destination of the next train, with no indication of the ETA.

View of platforms

Stepney Green is one of the two stations (the other being Mile End) serving the nearby Mile End campus of Queen Mary, University of London use, as both stations are located at each side of it.

[edit] Transport links

London bus route 25, 205, 309 and 339.

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