Chalk Farm tube station

Chalk Farm is an underground station of the London Underground in the London Borough of Camden. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2, at the intersection of the main roads Chalk Farm Road and Adelaide Road. In the year 2011 there were 4.94 million passengers these of the Northern Line station.

The opening took place on June 22, 1907 by the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, one of the two predecessor companies of the Northern Line. The narrow wedge-shaped station building is a particularly well-preserved example of the Leslie Green for the subsidiaries of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London established in a uniform style building. Typical features are the blood red glazed terracotta brick, large semicircular windows on the upper floor and toothed cornices. Since 2011, the building is a listed building (Grade II).

The station has the shortest lift the entire London Underground network ( 6.4 meters ). In 2005, she was extensively modernized by the infrastructure company Tube Lines. A close by as is the concert venue The Roundhouse. The cover of the album Absolutely by Madness shows the band in front of the entrance of the station.