Location Stepney Fare zone 2 2013 5.00 million Opened 1902 | Managed by London Underground 2012 4.68 million 2014 5.43 million Number of platforms 2 | |
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Address London E1 4DT, United Kingdom Original company Whitechapel and Bow Railway Similar Mile End tube station, Whitechapel station, London Underground, Bow Road tube station, Bromley‑by‑Bow tube station | ||
Stepney Green is a London Underground station in Mile End Road in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in Greater London. It is between Whitechapel and Mile End on the District line and the Hammersmith & City line, and is in Travelcard Zone 2.
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History
The station was opened in 1902 by the Whitechapel and Bow Railway, a joint venture between the District Railway and the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. The new railway connected the District Railway at Whitechapel with the London, Tilbury and Southend at Bow.
Electrified District Railway services started in 1905. Hammersmith and City line services (then part of the Metropolitan line) started in 1936. The station passed to London Underground in 1950.
Design
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.
Hammersmith & City line
This is the general off-peak frequency.
District line
This is the general off-peak frequency. During peak times trains also operate to Wimbledon. During off-peak times, 3 trains per hour from Wimbledon terminate at Barking (as of December 2014).
Circle line
There is no regular service however there are two trains per day that run from Barking to Edgware Road via Victoria before 6AM. (as of February 2015)
Location
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.
Connections
London Buses routes 25, 205 and 309, and night route N205 serve the station.