Holborn tube station
Holborn is an underground station of the London Underground in the London Borough of Camden. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 1, at the intersection of High Holborn, Kingsway and Southampton Row. Here the Central Line and the Piccadilly Line intersect at two levels, each with two platforms. In the vicinity there is the British Museum. In 2011, 31.98 million passengers used the station.
History
The opening of the station took place on December 15, 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP & BR), the predecessor company of the Piccadilly Line, which today's platforms 3 and 4 took in operation. In the beginning was the station Holborn ( Kingsway ), the text in parentheses fell away in the 1960s. The tracks of the Central London Railway (CLR ), today's Central Line, already since 1900 went through Holborn, but there was no connection between the two lines. The nearest station of the CLR was the British Museum, some 250 meters further west.
On November 30, 1907, the GNP & BR opened a branch line after Aldwych, with today's platforms 5 and 6, 1913 saw the first plans for better linking of CLR and GNP & BR, they could but because of World War II can not be implemented and delayed then continue. At the beginning of the 1930s there was a comprehensive modernization. The original station building by Leslie Green was replaced by a new building, designed by Charles Holden. The distance of the lifts and the construction of escalators and a new underground ticket hall allowed better access. Finally, on September 25, 1933 held for the first time the Central Line to the new platforms 1 and 2 after the station on the day the British Museum had been closed previously.
Since its opening used relatively few passengers the shuttle train on the branch line to Aldwych, because parallel to the tram in the wrong Kingsway Tramway Subway, a sub-surface distance. Even the setting of the tramway operations in 1952 did not benefit the Aldwych branch. Recently the trains there only during rush hour, the company was all set on 30 September 1994. Due to the terrorist attacks of 7 July 2005, the station on the Piccadilly Line was closed for a few weeks; on August 4, was the re-opening.
Disused railway platforms
The head platform 6 was only used very sparingly since 1912 and was finally closed on 16 August 1917. During the Second World War is taught in the area of the entire railway platform and the track office space and about a one dormitory. The hostel received the nickname of the platform, because even in the 1950s guest workers were housed there. Later parts of the premises of a model railroad club, and as bearing the University of London were used, but today they are empty.
Platform 5 was used as a test area for interactive advertising, which is projected by video projectors on screens on the back wall behind the track. At the entrance of a train, the projector will be turned on again and after departure. To test the recognition system, we used the remaining train the branch line. In addition, we increased the platform to a point at which the door of a retentive train is allowed to stand, to explore options for barrier-free access. The platform is still in relatively good condition and apart from a storage area for escalator replacement parts at the northern end largely unchanged. He was several times used as a film set, such as the music video for the song Turn Back Time the Danish band Aqua was filmed here in 1997.