Goodge Street tube station

Goodge Street is an underground station of the London Underground. It is located in the London Borough of Camden at the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Goodge Street, in Travelcard Zone 1 trains arrive here the Northern Line. In 2011, 10.62 million passengers used the station.

It is one of the few stations where passengers with lifts to the platforms reach instead of escalators, so still just as at the beginning of the 20th century.

The station was opened on June 22, 1907 by the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (now the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line ). At the beginning, however, was station name nor Tottenham Court Road, the company changed this on September 3, 1908 in Goodge Street.

Between 1940 and 1942 they built the station into a bomb shelter that was used from 1943 until the end of the War of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. From here, Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 6, 1944 on radio the beginning of the D-Day unknown. The shelter has two entrances, one at the Chenies Street ( see picture) and one on Tottenham Court Road, next to the American church.