Caledonian Road Underground Station
Caledonian Road is an underground station on the London Underground in the London Borough of Islington . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2, at the intersection of Caledonian Road and Roman Way. The closest building of interest is Pentonville Prison , about four hundred yards south. In 2013, 5.94 million passengers used the station.
The station was opened on December 15, 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway , the predecessor of the Piccadilly Line. Due to the terrorist attacks on July 7, 2005 , it was closed for several weeks; it reopened on August 4th.
The station building is a particularly well-preserved example of the structures that Leslie Green designed for the subsidiaries of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London at the beginning of the 20th century . Typical features are the blood-red glazed terracotta bricks, large semicircular windows on the upper floor and serrated cornices . The existence of elevators that lead directly to the platforms has always been unusual for the underground network. The building has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 2011 .
Renovation work
The Transport for London originally planned to close the station in the first half of 2016 in order to carry out the necessary replacement of the elevators from 1987. Strong resistance to these plans arose in the adjoining neighborhoods, which ended in an online petition in which almost 7,500 signatures against the closure were collected during the work. As an alternative, it was proposed to reuse two elevator shafts that had been closed since the renovation work in 1987 in order to enable continued operation. In January 2016, the Islington District Government announced that it had requested a court hearing on the project on February 25th. As a result, Transport for London withdrew the closure plans on January 19 and announced that it would revise the plans.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Piccadilly Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 22, 2013 .
- ^ Caledonian Road Underground station. In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, accessed January 22, 2013 .
- ↑ James Morris: Power to the people after Caledonian Road Station closure is withdrawn . In: Islington Gazette , January 19, 2016.
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York Road (closed) |
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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '54.7 " N , 0 ° 7' 6.5" W.