Camden Town Underground Station
Camden Town is a London Underground station in the London Borough of Camden . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2, at the intersection of Camden High Street and Parkway. In 2013, 22.52 million passengers used this station served by the Northern Line .
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Camden Town is particularly frequented by tourists visiting Camden Market on weekends . Due to capacity bottlenecks, the station cannot be entered from the street on Sundays between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., during this time only changing and disembarking is permitted.
Camden Town consists of two different sub-stations that are arranged in a V-shape to one another. One of these sub-stations serves traffic in the direction of Edgware in the northwest, the other in the direction of High Barnet and Mill Hill East in the north. Both join south of Camden Town and immediately branch off again into two further sections. The complex crossing structure enables the trains to switch from any of the northern to any of the southern sections. Due to a lack of space - the routes follow the narrow streets exactly - the directionally separated tunnels are arranged one above the other in both sub-stations. The section over Bank runs in a large curve, so that it passes under the section over Charing Cross at a right angle at Euston station .
history
The station opened on June 22, 1907, as part of the trunk line of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE & HR), one of the two predecessor companies of the Northern Line. The route led from Charing Cross north and branched out at Camden Town in two sections, which led initially to Archway and Golders Green . The station had the unusual V-shape right from the start.
In 1913 the CCE & HR merged with the City and South London Railway (C & SLR). Their route ended about one and a half kilometers further south under Euston station. In order to link the individual sections with one another, a second connection was built between Euston and Camden Town, which was opened on April 20, 1924. South of Camden Town, the branch was built to become the most complex junction in the entire subway network.
During the Second World War , on October 14, 1940, a German aerial bomb hit the station building, killing five people. Camden Town is one of eight subway stations that were converted into an air raid shelter between 1940 and 1942 . There is one exit each on Buck Street and Underhill Street. Parts of the bunker are now used as storage space. On September 19, 2003, a train derailed near the crossing structure. No one was seriously injured, but this busy section was impassable for ten days.
With the increasing awareness and popularity of Camden Market , the station was increasingly reaching its capacity limits and London Underground was therefore planning a generous expansion. In the underground, the existing elevators were to be replaced by escalators . A new construction of the station building was also planned. In order to be able to erect a temporary entrance during the construction work and to meet the most modern security systems, according to London Underground north of the station the demolition of the market in Buck Street, the Electric Ballroom , a church and numerous houses would have been necessary. Loud protests followed. In 2004, residents and market traders published an alternative plan that does not require large-scale demolition of buildings. The following year, London Underground dropped the original plans.
In 2015, the considerations to convert the station and build a second entrance building revived. Transport for London carried out a user survey to this end, which was completed in December 2015. It is currently planned to complete the work by 2023.
Web links
- Visit to the air raid shelter on Subterranea Britannica
- Photo of the station building (1937)
- Photo of the bomb damage (1940)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
- ↑ a b Northern Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 17, 2013 .
- ↑ Camden Town Station Capacity Upgrade. In: consultations.tfl.gov.uk. Retrieved August 8, 2016 .
- ^ New plans to rebuild Camden Town station unveiled by TfL. October 12, 2015. Retrieved August 8, 2016 (UK English).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 20.9 " N , 0 ° 8 ′ 33.5" W.