Mile End (ZME)

Mile End is an interchange tube station in East London serving the Central, District and Hammersmith & City Lines.

Information
Type:	Transport for London (Central, District & Hammersmith & City Lines)
Station code:	ZME
Opened:	1902
Platforms:	4

Mile End was opened in 1902 by the Whitechapel & Bow Railway and later owned by the Midland Railway / LMS [1]. The Metropolitan District Railway ran services at the station to start with, joined by the Metropolitan Line in 1936. This part of the Metropolitan later becoming the Hammersmith & City Line.

The Central Line reached Mile End in 1946 as part of it's Eastern extension from Liverpool Street to Stratford [2][3]. The station was rebuilt and expanded at the same time. The station only became fully owned by London Underground in 1950.

Mile End has four platforms and services are arranged to easily allow interchange between the three tube lines. The two inner platforms are used by the sub-surface District and Hammersmith & City Line and the two outer platforms by the Central Line. Mile End is the only subterranean station with cross-platform interchange between tube and sub-surface trains.

A West bound District S7 Stock train has just arrived

A Central Line 92ts train

Look down the District/H&C platforms

A Central Line train viewed across the sub-surface platforms

[1] Robert Griffiths, The Central Line (Past & Present, 2007) p. 32
[2] Jason Cross, London Underground Guide 2017 (Train Crazy, 2017) p. 142
[3] J. Graeme Bruce & Desmond F. Croome, The Twopenny Tube (Capital Transport, 1996) p. 48