Chalk Farm (London Underground)
Chalk Farm is an underground station on the London Underground in the London Borough of Camden . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2, at the intersection of the main roads Chalk Farm Road and Adelaide Road. In 2013, 5.55 million passengers used this station served by the Northern Line .
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 narrow, wedge-shaped station building is a particularly well-preserved example of the buildings erected in a uniform style 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 .
The station has the shortest elevator in the entire London Underground network (6.4 meters). In 2005 it was extensively modernized by the infrastructure company Tube Lines . A nearby attraction is The Roundhouse concert venue . The cover of the album Absolutely by Madness shows the band in front of the entrance to the station.
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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 17, 2013 .
- ^ Chalk Farm Underground station. In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, accessed January 17, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 39 ″ N , 0 ° 9 ′ 12 ″ W.