Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station With Associated Shops And Platforms

Loughton London Regional Transport Underground Station, built between 1939 and 1940 for the London and North Eastern Railway, features an associated set of shops and platforms. Designed by architect John Murray Easton of Stanley Hall, Easton and Robertson, the station has a steel frame with narrow bond brick infill and concrete platform canopies, topped with flat roofs. Accessed via an approach road, the station includes a projecting café on one side.

The entrance is angled and situated under canopies, flanked by shops, leading into a double-height ticket hall. From here, a passage descends beneath the tracks to the platforms. The original tiled entrance and floor contrast with the rendered walls. The platforms are covered by kidney-shaped flat-slab canopies supported by piers arranged in alternating broad and narrow bays, with the narrow bays filled with cast poster boards. Between these bays are free-standing information stands and fixed seating adorned with Underground roundels, which were present in photographs from 1942, indicating their originality. Additionally, pairs of freestanding lamp standards featuring roundel signs are located at the ends of the platforms.