Grange Hill tube station

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Grange Hill
Location
Place	Hainault
Local authority	Redbridge
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit	0.208 million
Transport for London
Zone	5
History
Key dates	Opened 1903
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

Grange Hill station is a London Underground station on the Central Line which lies on the boundary between the London Borough of Redbridge and the Epping Forest district of Essex.

For the purposes of fare charging the station is in Zone 5. The station currently closes at 8pm; from 19 November 2006 service at the station will be extended to cover the whole day. ^[1]

The station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 1 May 1903. In connection with alterations required for the Woodford to Ilford loop to form part of the electrified Central line Underground extensions, the station was closed from 29 November 1947. It reopened and was first served by the Central Line from 21 November 1948. The station ticket office was reconstructed as part of this work following destruction of the original building by enemy bombing during World War 2.

From the mid 1960s until the early 1990s the Woodford-Hainault section was largely separately operated from the rest of the Central Line, using four car (later three car) trains of 1960 Stock. These trains were adapted for Automatic Train Operation (ATO); the Woodford-Hainault section became the testing ground for ATO on the Victoria Line. The separate operation has now been abolished and through trains to Central London now operate.

Grange Hill is between Hainault tube station and Chigwell tube station. It has no connection with the long-running (1978 onwards) BBC TV series of the same name, even though the series was (until 2003) set in Greater London. As of 5 February 2006, the station is one of the first on the network to operate without a staffed ticket office. ^[2]