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Newbury Park canopy

Newbury Park tube station is a London Underground station in Newbury Park, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is on the Hainault loop of the Central Line, in Zone 4.

Newbury Park originally opened in 1903, as part of a Great Eastern Railway branch line from Woodford to Ilford via Hainault. The station was taken over by the Tube in 1947, with the branch line connected to the newly-built Central Line extension from Leytonstone via Redbridge to form the Hainault loop. The line between Ilford and Newbury Park was abandoned.

Newbury Park briefly acted as the eastern terminus of the branch while the line to Hainault was being converted for Tube usage, and today some eastbound trains still terminate there before reversing back to central London.

The station's most prominent feature is a large green semi-cylinder that is the roof of the bus shelter. It won a Festival of Britain architectural award. The station is unique in housing a synagogue, the Ohel David for oriental Jews. This synagogue was previously used by the Newbury Park United Synagogue before it acquired its own building.

grid reference TQ449883

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