Belsize Park (London Underground)
Belsize Park is an underground station on the London Underground in the London Borough of Camden . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2 on the main street Haverstock Hill. In 2013, 5.84 million passengers used this station served by the Northern Line . The Royal Free Hospital , the most important teaching hospital in London, is in the immediate vicinity .
The opening took place on June 22, 1907 by the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway , one of the two predecessor companies of the Northern Line. The platforms are 33.2 meters below the surface. Belsize Park is one of eight London Underground stations that were converted into an air raid shelter between 1940 and 1942 . Its entrances are on Haverstock Hill and Downside Crescent.
The station building is a particularly well-preserved example of the one designed by Leslie Green for the Subsidiaries of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London . Typical features are the blood-red glazed terracotta bricks, large semicircular windows on the upper floor and serrated cornices . The building has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 2011 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
- ^ Northern Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 16, 2013 .
- ^ Belsize Park Underground station. In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, accessed January 16, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 0.8 ″ N , 0 ° 9 ′ 52.5 ″ W.