Roding Valley tube station
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Roding Valley is a London Underground station situated directly on the border between the Epping Forest district of Essex and the London Borough of Redbridge. For the purposes of fare charging it is in Zone 5.
Roding Valley is served by the Central Line with services running between Woodford and Hainault until 8pm daily, with some peak-hour services running via Hainault and Gants Hill to London. It is the first station on the Hainault branch, which was originally a Great Eastern Railway line that ran from Woodford to Ilford. The station itself was built in 1936 to service to new housing developments between Buckhurst Hill and Woodford, and named after the valley of the River Roding which is close by. In 1947 the GER line was closed when it was merged with the Central Line, and Roding Valley was re-opened in 1948 as a Tube station on the Hainault Loop. However today it is one of the most lightly used stations on the Underground. It is not open at weekends.
Roding Valley station is located off of Buckhurst Way and is served regularly by bus service 549 (as of June 2003). Customers travelling northbound from Woodford towards Buckhurst Hill can catch a glimpse of the station and the junction off of the main line if they look right.
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