Maida Vale Underground Station

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Entrance to the station
Arriving train

Maida Vale is an underground station on the London Underground in the City of Westminster . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2, at the intersection of Elgin Avenue and Randolph Road. The name of the station is derived from the Maida Vale district . The street of the same name (A5) is around 50 meters east of the station. In 2014, 3.45 million passengers used the station served by the Bakerloo Line .

The station building, designed by architect Stanley Heaps and made of glazed terracotta bricks, is similar in style to that of Leslie Green , from which most of the Bakerloo Line tunnel stations of the early 20th century come. Maida Vale was one of the first London Underground stations to have escalators instead of elevators from the start . The station has been a listed building ( Grade II ) since 1987 .

The station opened on June 6, 1915, but the trains had already passed the unfinished station for four months and continued to Kilburn Park . During the planning phase, the station name Elgin Avenue was planned. In 2006 the station was renovated, whereby it was particularly important to restore the artistically valuable mosaic rondelles in the counter hall. These mosaics are among others in the film down from Alfred Hitchcock to see. The video for the Chemical Brothers' single Believe shows a train arriving at Maida Vale station.

Web links

Commons : Maida Vale  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 December 29, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / content.tfl.gov.uk
  2. ^ Christian Wolmar : The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever Atlantic Books. London 2004, pp. 205-206. ISBN 1-84354-023-1 .
  3. ↑ Maida Vale Underground Station. In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, accessed January 14, 2013 .
  4. ^ Bakerloo Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 14, 2013 .
  5. ^ Cyril M. Harris: What's in a name? Capital Transport. London 1976, p. 74. ISBN 1-85414-241-0 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '47.2 "  N , 0 ° 11' 8.6"  W.