Goodge Street (London Underground)
Goodge Street is an underground station on the London Underground . It is located in the London Borough of Camden at the intersection of Tottenham Court Road and Goodge Street, in Travelcard tariff zone 1. Northern Line trains stop here . In 2011, 10.62 million passengers used the station.
It is one of the few stations where passengers use elevators to get to the platforms instead of escalators , just like at the beginning of the 20th century.
The station was opened on June 22, 1907 by the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (now the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line). At the beginning, the station name was still Tottenham Court Road , but the company changed it to Goodge Street on September 3, 1908 .
Between 1940 and 1942 they built the station to a bomb shelter from which from 1943 until the end of the war by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force was used. From here, on June 6, 1944 , Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the start of D-Day over the radio . The bomb shelter has two entrances, one on Chenies Street (see picture) and one on Tottenham Court Road next to the American Church.
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- ↑ 2011 annual entries and exits ( MS Excel ; 200 kB), Transport for London
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 15 ″ N , 0 ° 8 ′ 4 ″ W.