Holloway Road tube station

Holloway Road is an underground station of the London Underground in the London Borough of Islington. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2, at the intersection of Holloway Road and Hornsey Road. In 2011, 8.05 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, the predecessor of today's Piccadilly Line. Although they built two elevator shafts, but to date only one has been used. In the second slot, there was a prototype of a spiral escalator of the American engineer Jesse Reno. But do not be proven and was abandoned after a short time. In the 1990s, they found the remains of the elevator to the pit floor and led her into the London Transport Museum Depot in Acton. Due to the terrorist attacks of 7 July 2005, the station was closed for several weeks; on August 4, was the re-opening.

Plant

The station building is a particularly well-preserved example of those buildings that Leslie Green designed in the early 20th century for the subsidiaries of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London. Typical features are the blood red glazed terracotta brick, large semicircular windows on the upper floor and toothed cornices. Since 1994, the building is a listed building (Grade II).

Nearby lies in July 2006, The Emirates Stadium of Arsenal FC. Planning permission was granted on the condition that the station is rebuilt and extended for five million pounds, to be built to serve more passengers. Later studies disclosed, however, that need to be replaced for this purpose would the elevators by escalators, what would have caused costs of around £ 60 million. For this reason, we introduced the expansion plans for now back and the station may rely only on game days, but will not enter.