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Ilford railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line serving the town of Ilford in the London Borough of Redbridge, east London. It is down-line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between and . Its three-letter station code is IFD and it is in Travelcard Zone 4. The station was opened in 1839 by the Eastern Counties Railway. It is currently managed by TfL Rail. Services call at Ilford as part of the -Liverpool Street stopping "metro" service. From 2019 the station will be fully served by Crossrail, linking it to additional stations in central London as well as and London Heathrow Airport.〔http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/archive/27439.aspx〕 TfL Rail, the precursor of Crossrail, took over the running of the Shenfield "metro" in May 2015. ==History== Ilford station was opened on 20 June 1839 by the Eastern Counties Railway, along with the Mile End (temporary terminus) to section of what was to become the Great Eastern Main Line. Between 1903 and 1947, trains also ran through to Woodford via Hainault via the Fairlop Loop, most of which was transferred to London Underground's Central line. The triangular junction (Seven Kings being the third point of the triangle) is now the site of the Ilford carriage sheds and also a maintenance depot operated by Bombardier Transportation. Freight trains used the connection from the Fairlop Loop to Seven Kings until 1956. On New Year's Day 1915 the station was the scene of a major collision in which 10 people were killed. Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Heilgers, a Member of Parliament, was one of nine people killed in the 1944 Ilford rail crash. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ilford railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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