Holloway Road (London Underground)

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Station building

Holloway Road is a London Underground station in the London Borough of Islington . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2, at the intersection of Holloway Road and Hornsey Road. In 2013 7.15 million passengers used the station.

history

Platform to the north

The station was opened on December 15, 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway , the predecessor of today's Piccadilly Line. Two elevator shafts were built, but only one has been used to date. In the second shaft was the prototype of a spiral escalator designed by American engineer Jesse Reno . But it did not prove itself and was given up after a short time. In the 1990s the remains of the elevator were found at the bottom of the shaft and transferred to the depot of the London Transport Museum in Acton . Due to the terrorist attacks on July 7, 2005 , the station was closed for a few weeks; it reopened on August 4th.

investment

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 building has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 1994 .

Nearby is the Emirates Stadium of Arsenal FC, which opened in July 2006 . The building permit had been granted with the condition that the station be rebuilt and expanded for five million pounds in order to handle more passengers. Investigations carried out later, however, indicated that this would have meant replacing the elevators with escalators at a cost of around £ 60 million. For this reason, the expansion plans have been postponed for the time being and the station can only be left, but not entered, on match days.

Web links

Commons : Holloway Road (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 27, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Piccadilly Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 22, 2013 .
  3. ^ Secret London: Holloway Road's long-lost spiral escalator. Tom Hall: London & Overseas Travel, October 21, 2009, accessed January 22, 2013 .
  4. ^ Holloway Road Underground station. In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, accessed January 22, 2013 .
  5. ^ Arsenal failing its Tube fans. Evening Standard, October 22, 2007, accessed January 22, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 9.4 "  N , 0 ° 6 ′ 47.1"  W.