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	Ongar Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the early nineteenth century Woodford, Loughton and Epping were small villages in rural Essex which, bordering Epping Forest, lay on the stagecoach road to Newmarket and Norfolk.
		The railway was not extended to Epping and Ongar until 1865, by which time the ECR had been absorbed into the Great Eastern Railway.
		In 1892/93 the line from Loughton to Epping was doubled to provide better services for the expanding towns of Epping and Theydon Bois, especially during the summer weekends when excursions were operated from the East End to the beauties of Epping Forest.
	www.londonrailways.net /ongar.htm (713 words)

	Epping Ongar Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Epping Ongar Railway operates on a preserved railway along the final section of the old Great Eastern Railway and London Underground Central Line branch line between Epping and Ongar, with an intermediate station at North Weald.
		Epping Glade: It is intended to extend trains to Epping, terminating at a new station near to the present London Underground Epping station, called Epping Glade.
		The line to Ongar was always single track, and approximately 14 trains each day went as far as the rural station, with the rest terminating at Epping or Loughton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epping_Ongar_Railway (1061 words)

	Ongar tube station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ongar tube station is a closed London Underground station in the town of Ongar, Essex.
		Steam locomotives operated by British Rail for the Underground ran a shuttle service from Epping to Ongar from 1949 to 1957, when the line was electrified and fully taken over by the Underground's Central Line.
		The current owners are the Epping Ongar Railway, a heritage railway company who run heritage trains on Sundays over the former Epping and Ongar line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ongar_tube_station (272 words)

	Ongar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ongar or Chipping Ongar is a town in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.
		Ongar was an important market town in the Mediaeval period, lying at the centre of a hundred and once possessing a Norman castle.
		Ongar church is noted for its reused Roman bricks.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Ongar (110 words)

	Epping, Ongar: New railway deadline concern - This Is Essex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		And with EOR directors seeking a further extension to the company's deadline for the reintroduction of a commuter service, there have been calls for the conditions to be revised to safeguard the railway's long-term future.
		EOR is currently applying for special permission to sell off station land worth as much as £1million an acre at Ongar.
		Ongar Railway Preservation Society chairman John Glover said: "With the company seeking to renew its deadline once again, I believe that the conditions should be changed to ensure that EOR are obliged to run the service for a minimum period of five years.
	archive.thisisessex.co.uk /2000/10/19/194043.html (379 words)

	Epping Ongar Railway - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Following nationalisation of the railways in 1948 individual assets of the main line rail companies and LT were transferred to the control of new executive bodies.
		The London Transport Executive (LTE) was the inheritor of the former LT assets and as the line from Leyton to Loughton was served by LT trains the track, stations and staff were transferred to them.
		Modification was made to the rail and signals in 1957 allowing two 4-car trains or one 8-car trains to run on the branch line, however, in practice the short platform length made the use of the 8-car train unworkable.
	abscond.org /skinner/EOR/history.htm (576 words)

	Epping to Ongar railway line and stations at Blake Hall and North Weald, The Eastern Counties Railway and Great Eastern ...
		Loughton to Epping went live from September the 25th 1949, leaving the single track line from Epping to Ongar as the last steam worked section.
		One of the odd things about travelling to Ongar was that my journey started from one of the busiest stations on the Underground system, with noisy tunnels eventually giving way to country views on the way to Epping.
		Halfway between Epping and Ongar lies this substantial stone built station surrounded by fields.
	www.urban75.org /london/ongar.html (826 words)

	Epping Forest walk starting from Theydon Bois, through Epping forest and ending up at Debden, Loughton, Essex, urban75 ...
		At Epping (one stop up from Theydon Bois), tube passengers used to be able to enjoy a ride on a delightfully anachronistic country branch line to the small town of Ongar.
		The railway arrived in 1865, with gas following in 1872.Water was piped in during 1879 with the 1931 census reporting a population of 1,504 in 395 households.
		Epping Forest is one of the last parts of the great oak forests that surrounded London until medieval times and harbours over 360 rare plants and animal species.
	www.urban75.org /london/epping.html (1286 words)

	The Holden F5 Trust: The Railway to Epping & Ongar
		The towns of Epping and Ongar were targets of further extension but construction had to wait until the ECR was absorbed into the GER.
		Ongar station was laid out as a through station - extensions beyond Ongar, to Dunmow or back to the GER mainline at Chelmsford were contemplated but never acted upon.
		Epping Ongar Railways Limited was established and a volunteer supporters group was created to assist in restoring the railway and operating a heritage service.
	www.holdenf5.co.uk /epping-ongar.htm (1600 words)

	Epping Ongar Railway at AllExperts
		The connection to Ongar was made in 1865 by the Eastern Counties/Great Eastern Railway.
		The line to Ongar was always single track, and approximately 14 trains each day went as far as the rural station, with the rest terminating at Epping or Loughton.
		Ongar station remained closed for engineering works and general maintenance and reopened on Sunday 28th May 2006 to passengers, although initially without the use of the station buildings.
	en.allexperts.com /e/e/ep/epping_ongar_railway.htm (1029 words)

	The Gorge - Ongar Station
		In 1994, the Epping to Ongar part of the Central Line was decommissioned.
		We have been before and the steam loco seems to be a permanent fixture (I have also seen it in photos from previous years) but the stock on the other line seems to change from time to time.
		Epping to Ongar Railway logo - current owners of the line - on rolling stock.
	gorge.org /images/ongar (167 words)

	Harrow Times: Archive
		A district council report said the transfer of the railway to the county council was "sufficient planning gain to set aside any shortcomings which may be inherent in both submissions".
		Ongar parish council sought assurances over adequate land being left to ensure a viable railway, and raised traffic and access issues.
		Epping Ongar Railway said both sites were previously developed land, there was a need for retirement homes in Ongar and the proposals would leave adequate land for railway use.
	www.harrowtimes.co.uk /archive/display.var.575927.0.0.php (582 words)

	COUNTY OF ESSEX - LoveToKnow Article on COUNTY OF ESSEX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Most of the county is covered by a superficial deposit of glacial drifts, sands, gravel and in places boulder clay, as at Epping, Dunmow and Hornchurch where the drift lies beneath the Thames gravel.
		The oyster-beds of the Colne produce the famous Colchester natives, and there are similar beds in the Crouch and Roach, for which Burnham-on-Crouch is the centre; and in the Blackwater (Maldon).
		Ongar, the house of the de Lacys, and Pleshey, the seat of the earls of Essex, have left only mounds.
	www.1911ency.org /E/ES/ESSEX_COUNTY_OF.htm (2744 words)

	Epping, Ongar: Rail buy-back dilemma - This Is Essex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Epping, Ongar: Rail buy-back dilemma - This Is Essex
		District and county councillors are facing a dilemma over the Epping to Ongar railway after it emerged that the trackbed alone could cost up to £1m to buy back.
		Following his decision to pull out of running a commuter service on the line, Epping Ongar Railway company boss Bill Camplisson confirmed that the buy-back price of the track is being audited before being offered for sale to Epping Forest District Council and Essex County Council along with former owners London Underground.
	archive.thisisessex.co.uk /2000/11/30/191429.html (442 words)

	Train Line Could Be Back On Track (from East London and West Essex Guardian Series)
		When the line was auctioned off, Ongar Railway Preservation Society which had been campaigning since 1991 to keep the line operational entered a £325,000 bid on the basis that the line would be run as a charity, displaying steam engines.
		Epping Ongar Railway Ltd will run a heritage line between North Weald and Ongar, as there are problems with sharing platforms at Epping Station with London Underground.
		He claims Epping Ongar Railway Ltd will be applying for Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate's approval in a matter of weeks and if that is passed, the company will apply to the Health and Safety Executive.
	www.ongarguardian.co.uk /search/display.var.460833.0.train_line_could_be_back_on_track.php (750 words)

	CULG - Central Line
		The Central London Railway was formed in 1891 to build a tube railway along the east-west axis of London, connecting the western suburbs to the City.
		The section from Epping to Ongar provided a refuge for steam for 8 years while a shuttle was worked by BR on behalf of LU.
		From Epping to Ongar is single track (a passing loop at North Weald was removed many years before the section closed).
	www.davros.org /rail/culg/central.html (2628 words)

	Ongar: Rail chief defends £1m sale plan
		The chairman of the Epping Ongar Railway company has this week defended his plans to sell off surplus land worth as much as £1millon an acre at Ongar station.
		Mr Camplisson explained that the purpose of selling the land - of which he said EOR owned around one and a half acres - would be to raise money to meet the cost of the £500,000 interchange at Epping.
		EOR directors have previously stated that they are prevented by the contract from disposing of any railway land until a commuter service has been introduced to the satisfaction of London Underground.
	archive.thurrockgazette.co.uk /2000/9/28/195397.html (505 words)

	East London and West Essex Guardian Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But for those at Ongar Station for the 11am train, such matters were probably not even in their thoughts.
		About 12 tickets were sold for the Ongar to North Weald journey but probably three times as many people made the return trip.
		Malcolm Hills, volunteer liaison officer for Epping Ongar Railway Volunteer Society, said: "The volunteers have done an awful lot of work in the last two-and-a-half years and today is just the accumulation of all that work, which is absolutely great.
	www.wansteadandwoodfordguardian.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=536726 (718 words)

	Epping Ongar Railway
		If approved, the potential applications by Epping Ongar Railway Limited for land at Ongar and North Weald could form part of a negotiated settlement to transfer the main railway holdings to Essex County Council.
		The railway line along with ancillary land and buildings could be transferred from Epping Ongar Railway Ltd to Essex County Council if the potential planning applications were approved.
		While Epping Forest District Council has previously expressed support for the railway to be returned to public ownership as a means of restarting rail services, it would be duty bound to consider any associated residential planning applications on strictly defined planning grounds.
	www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk /news/railway.asp (449 words)

	Epping Ongar Railway - History
		Following nationalisation of the railways in 1948 individual assets of the main line rail companies and LT were transferred to the control of new executive bodies.
		The London Transport Executive (LTE) was the inheritor of the former LT assets and as the line from Leyton to Loughton was served by LT trains the track, stations and staff were transferred to them.
		Modification was made to the rail and signals in 1957 allowing two 4-car trains or one 8-car trains to run on the branch line, however, in practice the short platform length made the use of the 8-car train unworkable.
	www.eorailway.co.uk /history.htm (774 words)

	New Hope For Line (from Watford Observer)
		In its letter to Epping Forest Council stating that it was offering to sell part of the land under its ownership, Epping Ongar Railway Company quoted a provisional valuation of £350,000 for the track and sleepers.
		The council is particularly concerned that there should be proper access and car parking at the Ongar end of the line, as there is little scope for further development at Epping Station.
		Brentwood and Ongar's prospective parliamentary Labour candidate, Diana Johnson, said the news that the county council could be involved in purchase talks was "the first glimmer of hope for the return of a passenger service since the ill-advised closure of the railway by London Underground".
	www.watfordobserver.co.uk /archive/display.var.131318.0.new_hope_for_line.php (530 words)

	cars - Chipping Ongar
		Chipping Ongar is a town in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.
		Ongar was an important market town in the Mediaeval period, lying at the centre of a hundred and once possessing a Norman castle.
		Ongar church is noted for its reused Roman bricks.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Ongar (88 words)

	Shepherd Neame: Ongar
		The towns and villages in the Ongar area date back to Saxon and Norman times and Roman bricks are still found in the church in Chipping Ongar.
		During the coaching era, Ongar was an important staging post for travellers from London to East Anglia and by 1848 there were daily departures from the Kings Head Inn.
		In 1865 the Epping to Ongar railway line was built, linking the area with London.
	www.shepherd-neame.co.uk /pubs/ongar.html (115 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - East London and West Essex Guardian Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		But for those at Ongar Station for the 11am train, such matters were probably not even in their thoughts.
		About 12 tickets were sold for the Ongar to North Weald journey but probably three times as many people made the return trip.
		Malcolm Hills, volunteer liaison officer for Epping Ongar Railway Volunteer Society, said: "The volunteers have done an awful lot of work in the last two-and-a-half years and today is just the accumulation of all that work, which is absolutely great.
	www.guardian-series.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=536726 (691 words)

	Bluebell Railway - Related Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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	www.bluebell-railway.co.uk /bluebell/links.html (3083 words)

	Closed London Underground stations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stroud Green, Crouch End, Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill and Alexandra Palace (on the line between Finsbury Park station and Alexandra Palace via Highgate) continued to be part of the LNER (and later British Railways) until the line closed in 1954.
		Part of a modified tube map is shown which shows the fictitious tube stations Lewisham, Ladywell, Edge of the World and Catford on the East London Section of the Metropolitan Line south from New Cross tube station.
		There is an actual part of the mainline Mid-Kent Railway that interchanges with New Cross tube station, and the stations are, southwards in order: St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_closed_London_Underground_stations (1363 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - Your Local Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		RAILWAY enthusiasts are preparing for a planning battle with the owner of the Epping-Ongar railway and its plans to build housing on part of the Ongar Station site.
		Ongar Railway Preservation Society chairman John Glover has reiterated the society's aim to safeguard the line's future and, speaking at the society's annual general meeting, confirmed the society had objected to Epping-Ongar Railway Ltd's planning application.
		Mr Glover said it was only due to the society's efforts in raising the authorities' awareness to the situation surrounding the line that it had remained basically intact since its closure as part of the Central Line in September 1994.
	www.suttonguardian.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=904250 (299 words)

	Printer Friendly Format - Barnet Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Ongar parish council has urged the Epping Ongar Railway Company, which owns the six-mile section of the former Central Line, to discuss its plans.
		Society member Derek Spring told the meeting: 'I joined (the society) not as a railway anorak but because I was interested to see what would happen to the railway.
		No one from the Epping Ongar Railway Company was available to comment at the time of going to press.
	www.barnettimes.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=95943 (411 words)

	Underground History - Epping to Ongar
		Thanks to the Epping Ongar Railway Volunteer Society a Sunday service has been resumed on the stretch of line that ran beyond Epping to Ongar, originally maintained and run as a shuttle service at the northern end of the Central Line.
		In several places, the society's EOR logo can be prominently seen as can a new roundel on the platform itself, bearing the station's name.
		The locomotive that is currently in use to carry passengers is a retired class 117 diesel multiple unit, which has been painted with the society's logo and livery.
	www.underground-history.co.uk /ongar.php (761 words)

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