Tottenham Court Road station

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Entrance to the station during construction
Central Line platform with mosaics

The Tottenham Court Road station is a station on the London Underground and a future Crossrail -Bahnhof in the City of Westminster . The underground station complex is located in fare zone 1 on St Giles Circus , the intersection of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street . In 2016, 39.35 million passengers used the station.

investment

The London Underground lines cross on two levels: the Central Line , which runs from west to east , at the top, and the Northern Line , which runs from north to south, at the bottom . Both once had different station buildings. The Central Line on Oxford Street was demolished in 2009 to make way for a significantly larger new building. Only individual facade elements above the canopy have been preserved. Elevator shafts and emergency stairs have been preserved from the original station building of the Northern Line; the former are partly used as office and service rooms. Today's station consists of a distribution level under St Giles Circus with four entrances. These are to the northeast, southwest, and northwest of the intersection and under the Center Point skyscraper in the southwest, with an underpass leading to Andrew Borde Street.

Since 1984, mosaic-like murals by Pop Art artist Eduardo Paolozzi (whose signature can be seen in several places) have given the station an unmistakable and unique appearance. The design refers to the neighborhood of the numerous electronics and hi-fi shops on Tottenham Court Road. Some of the murals had to be removed in 2015 as part of the Crossrail project. They were instead restored at Edinburgh University . In 2017, the French concept artist Daniel Buren created the mural Diamonds and Circles in one of the redesigned entrance areas , which consists of colored diamond and circle patterns that contrast with Buren's typical black and white stripes.

history

Mural by Eduardo Paolozzi

The station opened on July 30, 1900 as part of the Central London Railway (CLR), the predecessor of the Central Line. Harry Bell Measures designed the station building; access was via elevators to the eastern end of the platforms. The Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (now the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line) reached this area around June 22, 1907. Their Leslie Green- designed station, however, was initially called Oxford Street , until a pedestrian tunnel to the station was opened CLR on September 3, 1908. The nearest station further north, which was initially called Tottenham Court Road, was renamed Goodge Street on the same day .

From 1923 to 1926 the station was rebuilt, with a new ticket hall under St Giles Square. Also in 1926 the elevators were replaced by escalators . From 1938 onwards, a new type of ventilation was tested here: The temperature in the tunnel was to be reduced by spraying water droplets. However, the system did not prove itself and was expanded again in 1949. The operating costs were eight times higher than that of a fan . The original CCE & HR station building was demolished in 1963 to make way for the construction of the controversial Center Point skyscraper. On this occasion, new escalators and connecting routes as well as a new distribution level were built . In 1984 the entire station was redecorated, removing the original wall tiles from Green and replacing them with Paolozzi's murals.

expansion

New entrance hall with mural by Daniel Buren

Tottenham Court Road has always been one of the busiest stations on the London Underground, and passenger numbers will continue to grow as the Crossrail line opens. Because of this, the station was rebuilt from 2009 to 2017 at a cost of £ 500 million. Meanwhile, the platforms of both lines were closed for a few months: from April 2 to November 28, 2011 those of the Northern Line and from January 5 to December 7, 2015 those of the Central Line.

At the same time, four entrance halls were modernized or rebuilt, the escalators renovated and elevators installed to make the access to the platforms barrier-free. In parallel to the renovation work on the existing station, tunnels and passages for Crossrail were dug and linked to the existing station, but the passages will remain closed until the opening in December 2019. There are plans to implement the Crossrail 2 project after the completion of Crossrail . The only transfer station between the two Crossrail routes is to be Tottenham Court Road, so the station is expected to be expanded again in the 2020s.

Pop Culture

Web links

Commons : Tottenham Court Road Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Aicha Zaa, Will Hurst: Campaigners 'disgusted' as builders dismantle Paolozzi murals at Tottenham Court Road. Evening Standard , February 2, 2015, accessed April 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Tube station mosaics to be seen in new light in artist's home city. University of Edinburgh July 28, 2015, archived from the original September 15, 2015 ; accessed on April 1, 2018 (English).
  4. ^ Alice Morby: Daniel Buren adds colorful shapes to Tottenham Court Road tube station. dezeen.com, July 12, 2017, accessed April 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 28, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Northern Line ed = Clive's Underground Line Guides. Retrieved January 28, 2013 .
  7. ^ Alan Jackson, Desmond Croome: Rails Through the Clay: A History of London's Tube Railways . Capital Transport, London 1993, ISBN 978-1-85414-151-4 , pp. 169 .
  8. ^ Bentley FC: Ventilation and Heat-removal on the Tube Railways. London Passenger Transport Board, 1939.
  9. ^ Dick Murray: Tottenham Court Road station's £ 500 million revamp completed as entrances open. Evening Standard , February 10, 2017, accessed April 1, 2018 .
  10. ^ Northern line platforms to reopen at Tottenham Court Road. Transport for London, November 22, 2011, accessed December 20, 2015 .
  11. ^ New glass tube entrance opens at Tottenham Court Road. Transport for London, December 2, 2015, accessed December 20, 2015 .
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  13. ↑ We Will Rock You to close after an astonishing 12 years. bestoftheatre.co.uk, March 19, 2014, accessed April 1, 2018 .
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