Chancery Lane tube station

Chancery Lane is an underground station of the London Underground on the border of the municipalities City of London and the London Borough of Camden. Located in the Travelcard Zone 1 station is served by the Central Line. Nearby are the Royal Courts of Justice. In 2011, 16.04 million passengers used the station.

History

The opening of the station took place on July 30, 1900 by the Central London Railway, the predecessor of the Central Line. On 25 June 1934 the company changed its name while in Chancery Lane ( Gray's Inn), but the text in parentheses disappeared after a short time.

The entrance was originally located directly at the intersection of High Holborn and Chancery Lane, approximately 120 meters to the west. However, to install escalators, moving him one bit to the east in 1934. The new ticket hall came to lie underground and is now used as a pedestrian underpass. A structural feature is that the westward leading track is arranged to lack of space under the east leading. In the neighboring station of St. Paul's, this is exactly the opposite.

Chancery Lane is one of eight stations of the London Underground, which were expanded 1940-1942 to an air raid shelter. The capacity would have been enough for 8000 people, but in contrast to the other bunkers, the military used this bunker as a communication center. In 1949, the British postal administration the bunker and set up a telephone switching office, which was in operation from 1954 to 1995 ( Kingsway telephone exchange).

On January 25, 2003 derailed a train at the station, after an engine had separated from the train; 32 passengers sustained any injuries. The entire Central Line was closed for more than three months, to search for the causes and make any necessary adjustments to the trains.