Epping Ongar Railway HistoryDates of the Branch line.
| 1856 | |
| 1859 | Epping Railway Act passed (Loughton – Ongar) |
| 1862 | GER formed |
| 1862 | Work starts (contractor Thomas Brassey) on Loughton - Ongar |
| 1865 | Loughton – Ongar section opens (24th April) |
| 1888 | Interlocked Signal boxes built & block working introduced |
| 1892 | Loughton – Epping section double tracked |
| 1893 | Epping engine shed opened |
| 1917 | Ongar turntable removed |
| 1935 | Leyton – Ongar planned as part of LT New Works program |
| 1939 | Liverpool St. Ongar peak hours only, Epping – Ongar shuttle other times |
| 1941 | Push Pull introduced Epping - Ongar |
| c.1943 | Ongar engine shed demolished |
| 1947 | Transferred to LT |
| 1947 | May - LT tube to Leytonstone, steam shuttle on rest of line |
| 1947 | December – LT tube to Woodford |
| 1948 | LT tube to Loughton |
| 1949 | Central Line tube trains run to Epping, push-pull shuttle Epping - Ongar |
| 1949 | Second platform built at North Weald as crossing point |
| 1949 | LT signal cabin opened at Epping |
| 1949 | Blake Hall box replaced by ground frame |
| 1949 | Epping engine shed rebuilt |
| 1952 | AVC Diesel railcar tried on Epping – Ongar branch |
| 1957 | Epping – Ongar electrified & colour light signals introduced |
| 1957 | Epping shed closed |
| 1964 | North Weald goods closed |
| 1966 | Blake Hall & Ongar goods closed |
| 1966 | Ongar ‘shed’ closed? |
| 1969 | Ongar box closed, control transferred to North Weald |
| 1970/1 | 1st closure attempt |
| 1976 | North Weald box unstaffed & loop disused |
| 1978 | North Weald box closed & loop removed |
| 1980/1 | 2nd closure attempt |
| 1981 | Blake Hall closed |
| 1982 | Monday - Friday peak hours service only |
| 1994 | 3rd closure attempt – Epping Ongar closes 30th September |
| 1994/5 | LUL chooses Pilot Developments Ltd as preferred bidder and they are given access to the line |
| 1996 | Epping signal cabin closes |
| 1998 | Epping – Ongar line sold to EORL (Pilot Developments ltd) by LUL |
| 2000 | EORL fails to reopen line by due date & publicly abandons commuter service |
| 2001 2004 2005 | ECC starts negotiations to buy the line. Sunday 10th October Passenger service started. EOR still run sunday service sucessfully. |
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