Who owns the East London Line tunnels and stations.

TfL/RfL own the core section between Dalston Jct and New Cross Gate/New Cross/Old Kent Rd Jct, the rest is owned by Network Rail.

bassmike - like Hatch End therefore? (HE really is owned by someone's heirs and hashashins...)

Nope! - a common misconception.

Please remember that the section from New Cross / New Cross Gate up to Shoreditch in pre TfL days was owned by London Underground Limited (as sucessors to the origional Metroploitan and Metropolitan District railway companies). Although it is true that as built the GER, LBSCR and SER all had involvement in the beginning, British Rail had long given up any ownership rights (other than in the vacinity of New Cross Gate / New Cross Stations) way before privatisation let alone TfL, arrived on the scene.

The northern section running from Hoxton through to Dalston also escaped from NR ownership - in this case becasue the Broad Street to Dalston line was shut by British Rail. Now in normal circumstances that would have been the end of things and the viaducts demolished to release development space - but even back in the early 90s it was obvious that the former Broad Street approaches had potential to be combined with the under utilised ELL Underground line. Accordingly ownership was transferred from British Rail to the local councils, who then sold / transferred it to TfL upon the establishment of said organisation.

The viaducts constructed to link the two bits were designed and constucted for TfL who naturally owned the completed structures (just as the entire Crossrail tunnel network, i.e. Royal Oak to Pudding Mill lane plus pratically the entire Abbey Wood branch will also be owned by TfL NOT Network Rail.

Thus the only bits of the ELL Network Rail actually own is the section from Dalston - Highbury (where it runs alongside the NLL) and a few small bits of track around New Cross gate and at the junction with the SLL.

All signalling on the route is controlled from the TfL owned and operated (via the LO concession) depot / control centre at New Cross gate - and I believe that even the signallers controlling the line are LO staff.

The only involvement NR thus have with the core of the ELL is that they have been contracted to maintain and provide faulting cover for the infrastructure (in a similar manor to HS1) - mainly because the revitalised ELL uses traditional 'mainline railway' signalling equipment, etc and it makes more sense to have NR do it than have TfL do it in house so to speak (i.e. by the underground).

   Please explain what is meant by `signalled by Network rail Signallers. I have a working timetable from a couple of years ago, where the ELL trains are accepted from `Dalston Western Connector`, which I assume is where the ownership boundary is at Dalston. Are you saying that the whole of the ELL is controlled from a Network Rail box. 

longhedge I think what happens is that Highbury to Dalston is controlled by Network Rail signallers working the North London Line (based in Upminster IECC), while Dalston to New Cross/New Cross Gate/Whatever-the-junction-to-Clapham-is-called is controlled by different Network Rail signallers based at New Cross Gate.

The section between Silwood Junction and Old Kent Rd Junction is still under the ELL signaller so the boundary is really at the last signal protecting Old Kent Rd Junction on the up Silwood. This is under London Bridge signal box.