Mornington Crescent Underground Station
Mornington Crescent is an underground station on the London Underground . It is located in the London Borough of Camden , at the intersection of Eversholt Street and Hampstead Road (Mornington Crescent itself is a side street of the latter). The station, which was used by 4.65 million passengers in 2013, is around half a kilometer north of Euston train station in the Travelcard tariff zone 2; trains of the Northern Line stop here .
history
The station was opened on June 22, 1907 by the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway , one of the two predecessor companies of the Northern Line. Before construction, Seymour Street had been suggested as the station name . After it opened, the station was rarely used. For decades it was closed on weekends and by 1966 numerous trains passed the station without stopping even on weekdays.
On October 23, 1992, the station was completely closed to replace the now 85-year-old elevators . It was planned to put the station back into operation within a year. But the general decline was meanwhile so advanced that a complete renovation was necessary. This dragged on for years and there were even efforts to completely abolish the station. After a protest campaign, work finally continued, so that the station was reopened on April 27, 1998.
Since reopening, the station has also been open on weekends to relieve the neighboring station Camden Town , which often reaches its capacity limits due to the popular Camden Market .
Cultural meaning
The station is known nationwide for the game Mornington Crescent , a parody of strategy games in the satirical program I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on BBC Radio 4 . The festive reopening of the station in 1998 was done by four of the comedians who had pushed the "development" of the game. A plaque has been attached to the station building since 2002 to commemorate Willie Rushton , a late Mornington Crescent creator.
Mornington Crescent is the name of a song on the album The Life Pursuit by the pop band Belle and Sebastian . The station is mentioned in numerous books by Robert Rankin , also in the book The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross . The video for the title Be There by the British project UNKLE was shot largely in Mornington Crescent.
Location and architecture
Mornington Crescent is on the Charing Cross branch line between Camden Town and Euston. The City or Bank branch line also runs between these two stations, but directly and not via Mornington Crescent. In the current route network plan, Mornington Crescent is drawn on the west side, although in reality it is on the east side, because the two branches of the line cross in Euston and the bank branch runs west of the Charing Cross branch to Camden Town.
The station building is a particularly well-preserved example of the one designed by Leslie Green for the Subsidiaries of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London . 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 1987 .
Web links
- Photo of the tunnel construction (December 1922)
- Photo of the entrance hall (August 1930)
- Photo of bomb damage (October 1940)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
- ↑ a b Northern Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 17, 2013 .
- ^ Mornington Crescent station. (No longer available online.) In: National heritage list of England. National Heritage, archived from the original on June 21, 2014 ; accessed on January 16, 2013 . 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.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 4.3 ″ N , 0 ° 8 ′ 19 ″ W.