Warren Street (London Underground)

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Station building
Wall tiles with the old station name

Warren Street is a London Underground station in the London Borough of Camden . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 1, at the intersection of Euston Road and Tottenham Court Road (Warren Street itself is a short side street of the latter). Here the Northern Line and the Victoria Line cross on two levels . In 2011, 15.69 million passengers used the station.

The station consists of four levels. The counter hall on the ground floor has two entrances. Three escalators lead to the distribution level below , which also serves as a pedestrian underpass. Two escalators lead down to the Northern Line platforms on the third level. Two more escalators lead to the Victoria Line platforms on the fourth level. A special feature of the Victoria Line is that the trains here run on the right. The reason is the relatively short distance to Euston station , where the platforms were built reversed to make the transition to the Northern Line easier.

On June 22, 1907, the station opened as part of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (now the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line). At the beginning it was called Euston Road (you can still recognize this name on the wall tiles). The name was changed to Warren Street on June 7, 1908. To enable the installation of escalators, the original station building was replaced by a new building. The platforms of the Victoria Line went into operation on December 1, 1968. The station was the southern terminus of the Victoria Line for four months until the extension to the south was opened.

Warren Street is one of those stations that were the target of the unsuccessful terrorist attacks of July 21, 2005 ; however, the suicide bomber's explosive device did not detonate.

Web links

Commons : Warren Street (London Underground)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 2011 annual entries and exits ( MS Excel ; 200 kB), Transport for London
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 29 ″  N , 0 ° 8 ′ 18 ″  W.