Temple (London Underground)
Temple is an underground station on the London Underground in the City of Westminster . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 1 on the north bank of the Thames . In 2014, 8.14 million passengers used the station served by the Circle Line and the District Line .
The station name is derived from the nearby Temple Church , the former main church of the Knights Templar in England. Also nearby are Fleet Street , the Inns of Court ( Middle Temple , Inner Temple , Gray's Inn, and Lincoln's Inn ), the Royal Courts of Justice, and the Bush House .
The station was opened on May 30, 1870 by the Metropolitan District Railway , the predecessor of today's District Line. The construction of the station was related to the construction of the Thames Embankment . On May 17, 1938, a Circle Line train hit a stationary District Line train because it had run over a stop signal. Six people were killed in the accident and 45 others were injured.
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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 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.
- ^ District Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed February 5, 2013 .
- ^ The London underground in facts and figures. The Guardian, January 9, 2013, accessed February 5, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 39.6 " N , 0 ° 6 ′ 51.2" W.