Kennington Underground Station

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Kennington is an underground station on the London Underground in the London Borough of Lambeth . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2 on Kennington Park Road. This is where the two central branches of the Northern Line come together via Charing Cross and Bank . In 2013, 4.61 million passengers used the station.

history

Platform towards Charing Cross

The station opened on December 18, 1890 as part of the first section of the City and South London Railway (C & SLR, now the city branch of the Northern Line), the world's first electrically operated underground railway. Originally, the facility was similar to Borough today, with two single-lane tunnels one below the other.

From May 31, 1923 to July 6, 1925, the station was closed for renovation work. To connect the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway , two more side platforms were built. The route to Waterloo was opened on September 13, 1926. The Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line could be extended beyond Kennington in the medium term. An extension via Nine Elms to Battersea (with the terminus near the Battersea Power Station ) is planned and is to go into operation in 2019.

investment

To the south there is a turning loop in which the trains of the Charing Cross branch change direction. Due to the layout of the tracks, trains in the city branch cannot use the loop. One of the four platforms is therefore served almost exclusively by arriving trains, a second only by departing trains. Only a few of the trains that run via Charing Cross continue south, with the exception of the journeys in and out of the depot in Morden .

The station building designed by the architect TP Figgis consists of red bricks with white stone decorations. Special features are the attic and the high dome on a raw plastered drum . Kennington is the only station on the C & SLR that has largely been preserved in its original state. The building has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 1974 . A comprehensive renovation took place in 2005.

Web links

Commons : Kennington (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 Northern Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 25, 2013 .
  3. ↑ see this engineering drawing of the C & SLR
  4. ^ Proposed extension of the Northern Line to Nine Elms and Battersea. (PDF; 937 kB) Transport for London, 2012, accessed on January 25, 2013 (English).
  5. ^ Kennington Underground station. In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, accessed January 25, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 18 ″  N , 0 ° 6 ′ 21.5 ″  W.