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Blackhorse Road station

Blackhorse Road station

London Overground and London Underground station

Blackhorse Road is an interchange station, located at the junction of Blackhorse Road/Blackhorse Lane with Forest Road in Walthamstow, London for London Underground and London Overground services.

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For the Tramlink line tram stop, see Blackhorse Lane tram stop.

It is on the Victoria line of the London Underground and is the penultimate station on the eastern end of that line. Above ground, the station is on the Gospel Oak to Barking line of the London Overground, 7 miles 21 chains (11.7 km) from St Pancras (measured via Kentish Town and Mortimer Street Junction).[8]

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It is in Travelcard Zone 3[9] and is the least-used station on the Victoria line, with 6.44 million passengers per year. It is the closest railway station to Walthamstow Wetlands.

Ticket barriers control access to all platforms. Passengers using Oyster cards are required to tap on a yellow Oyster card reader at ticket gates when entering and leaving the station and - to be charged a lower fare - suggested to also tap on a pink Oyster card reader if transferring between the two lines.

History

The station was opened by the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway on 9 July 1894,[10] and was originally situated east of Blackhorse Road.[11] Its opening changed the local area from a gentrified London suburb to industrial, with several works and units opening around Ferry Lane to the northwest.[12]

The Victoria line station opened on 1 September 1968, across the road from the mainline station.[10][13] It was planned as a simple two-platform station, and was the only station on the line with any new structures above ground level.[14] The surface line station was re-sited by British Rail on 14 December 1981, to provide better interchange with the Underground station.[15]

The station today

Structure

The station contains two underground platforms for the Victoria line and two for the London Overground. Owing to budget restraints at the time of construction, the Underground station, like many stations on the Victoria line, was never completely finished to the standard of other lines.[citation needed] White ceiling panels were never fixed to the ceilings above the platforms; instead the steel tunnel segments were painted black and used to support the fixtures and fittings. This has had a detrimental effect on the lighting levels.[citation needed]

Artwork

The black horse tile motif at the tube station.

There are two distinct works of art at the station, both depicting black horses, in reference to the station's name. One is in the form of a tile motif depicting a black horse on a white cameo against a light blue background, identical to the Victoria line's colour. It was designed by Hans Unger, who also did the tile motif at Seven Sisters tube station. The other is a mural of a black horse outside the station's entrance, by David McFall.[16]

Services

During peak periods, trains run approximately every two minutes on the Victoria line (up to 33 trains per hour) in both directions.[17][18]

The typical off-peak service for the London Overground Suffragette line in trains per hour (tph) is:

From June 2016 until February 2017, services on the route were suspended whilst it was electrified; this project involved lowering track in several places, rebuilding bridges and lengthening platforms as well as installing overhead wires.[20] A replacement bus service was in operation for the duration of the closure period.

Connections

London Bus routes 123, 158, 230, W11 and night route N73 serve the station.[21]

References

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    Standard Tube Map (PDF) (Map). Not to scale. Transport for London. November 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 November 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
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    "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
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    "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
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    "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
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    "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  7. [7]
    "Estimates of station usage". Rail statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Please note: Some methodology may vary year on year.
  8. [8]
    Padgett, David (October 2016) [1988]. Brailsford, Martyn (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern (4th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. map 1B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.
  9. [9]
    Standard Tube Map (PDF) (Map). Not to scale. Transport for London. November 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 November 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  10. [10]
    Butt 1995, p. 36.
  11. [11]
    OS London 1:1,056 - Sheet III.39 (Map). 1895. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  12. [12]
    'Walthamstow: Introduction and domestic buildings', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6, ed. W R Powell (London, 1973), pp. 240-250. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol6/pp240-250 [Retrieved 18 June 2019].
  13. [13]
    Horne 1988, p. 24.
  14. [14]
    ""The Railway in a Bathroom": on the design of London's Victoria line at 50 | CityMetric". www.citymetric.com.
  15. [15]
    The Forgotten Stations of Greater London by J.Connor and B.Halford ISBN 0 947699 17 1
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    Porter, Laura. "Blackhorse Road". GoLondon. Archived from the original on 12 July 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  17. [17]
    "Victoria line timetable: From Blackhorse Road Underground Station to Walthamstow Central Underground Station". Transport for London. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  18. [18]
    "Victoria line timetable: From Blackhorse Road Underground Station to Tottenham Hale Underground Station". Transport for London. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  19. [19]
    "Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside route" (PDF). 18 July 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  20. [20]
    "Eight-month closure planned for GOBLIN electrification"Global Rail News article 2 February 2016; retrieved 7 June 2016
  21. [21]
    "Buses from Blackhorse Road" (PDF). 20 October 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2015.

Sources

Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.

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