Chancery Lane Underground Station

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Station entrance
Eastbound platform

Chancery Lane is an underground station on the London Underground on the border of the City of London and the London Borough of Camden . The station in the Travelcard tariff zone 1 is served by the Central Line . The Royal Courts of Justice are nearby . In 2013, 16.52 million passengers used the station.

history

The station was opened on July 30, 1900 by the Central London Railway , the predecessor company of the Central Line. On June 25, 1934, the name was changed to Chancery Lane ( Gray's Inn ) , but the parentheses disappeared again after a short time.

The entrance was originally located at the intersection of High Holborn and Chancery Lane, about 120 meters to the west. However, in order to be able to install escalators , it was moved a little eastwards in 1934. The new counter hall was located underground and has since served as a pedestrian underpass. A special structural feature is that the westward track is arranged under the eastward track due to lack of space. At the neighboring St. Paul’s station , this is exactly the opposite.

Chancery Lane is one of eight London Underground stations that were converted into an air raid shelter between 1940 and 1942 . The capacity would have been enough for 8,000 people, but in contrast to the other bunkers, the military used this bunker as a communication center. In 1949 the British postal administration took over the bunker and set up a telephone exchange that was in operation from 1954 to 1995 (Kingsway telephone exchange) .

On January 25, 2003, a train derailed at the station after an engine had come off the train; 32 passengers suffered injuries. The entire Central Line was closed for more than three months to look for the causes and make any necessary adjustments to the trains.

Web links

Commons : Chancery Lane (London Underground)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 28, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Central Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 28, 2013 .
  3. ^ A b Andrew Emmerson, Tony Beard: London's Secret Tubes . Capital Transport, London 2004, ISBN 1-85414-283-6 , pp. 170 .
  4. ^ JE Connor: London's Disused Underground Stations . Capital Transport, London 1999, ISBN 1-85414-250-X , pp. 122 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 0 ° 6 ′ 40.9 ″  W.