Charing Cross (London Underground)
Charing Cross is a station on the London Underground . The Bakerloo Line and the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line operate here . There is also a connection to the British rail network at the terminus of the same name . In 2014, 21.30 million passengers used the station in Travelcard tariff zone 1.
investment
The station is located in the Charing Cross district , which is part of the City of Westminster . In the past, both the Northern Line and the Bakerloo Line had different names for this station. On the Bakerloo Line it was Trafalgar Square , on the Northern Line it was Strand .
On the platform of the Northern Line, there is a 100-meter-long mural by David Gentleman depicting the funeral procession of Eleanor of Castile (wife of Edward I ) of Nottinghamshire to her grave at Westminster Abbey . The Bakerloo Line trains run on platforms 1 and 2, those of the Northern Line on platforms 5 and 6. Platforms 3 and 4 were those of the Jubilee Line and are only used in exceptional cases.
history
On March 10, 1906, the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (BS&WR) (today's Bakerloo Line) opened the Trafalgar Square station , as part of the commissioning of the line between Baker Street and Lambeth North . The Charing Cross station , at that time still the end point of the route of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE & HR), followed on June 22, 1907. Although both companies were owned by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL), there was between them no direct underground connection.
In order to improve connections, the CCE & HR was extended on April 6, 1914 over a short distance under Charing Cross station to Embankment station, where there was a connection to the District Line . The original terminus of the CCE & HR has been renamed Charing Cross (Strand) . On May 9, 1915, it was renamed Strand again . To avoid confusion, the separate Strand station of the Piccadilly Line was named Aldwych .
The Northern Line station was closed from June 16, 1973 to May 1, 1979 due to the construction of the Jubilee Line . In the course of this work, both stations were connected with long pedestrian underpasses, two new platforms were built for the Jubilee Line and the entire complex was brought together under the new name. From May 1, 1979, Charing Cross was the terminus of the Jubilee Line. Plans to extend the Jubilee Line from Charing Cross east to Docklands were never realized. On November 19, 1999, the two platforms of the Jubilee Line were closed again because the route of the eastern extension had been swiveled south.
Movie and TV
The disused platforms of the Jubilee Line were used as a location for the films Creep and 28 Weeks Later . They can also be seen in the video for the single "Cry" by Alex Parks , the winner of the second season of the talent show Fame Academy .
Web links
- London's Abandoned Tube Stations: Charing Cross
- Entrance to the Strand station (around 1910)
- Repairing bomb damage at Trafalgar Square Station (October 1940)
Individual evidence
- ↑ COUNTS - 2014 - annual entries & exits. (PDF, 44 kB) (No longer available online.) Transport for London, 2015, archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; accessed on September 3, 2018 (English).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 30 ″ N , 0 ° 7 ′ 35 ″ W.