Kennington tube station

Kennington is an underground station of the London Underground in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2 at the Kennington Park Road. Here unite the two main branches of the Northern Line route via Charing Cross and Bank. In 2011, 4.52 million passengers used the station.

History

The station was opened as part of the first section of the City and South London Railway (C & SLR, now City branch of the Northern Line ) on December 18, 1890, the first electric underground railway in the world. The plant was originally presented similar Borough today, with two under -side, single-track tunnels.

From May 31 1923 to July 6, 1925, the station was closed for remodeling. To bind the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, one built two additional side platforms. The opening of the line to Waterloo took place on 13 September 1926. Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line could be in the medium term on Kennington addition. It is planned to extend via Nine Elms Battersea after ( with the terminus near the Battersea Power Station), which is to go into operation in 2019.

Plant

South of it is a turning loop in which change the features of the Charing Cross branch, the direction of travel. The loop can not be traveled by the trains of the City branch because of the arrangement of the tracks. One of the four platforms is therefore almost exclusively served by incoming trains, a second only by departing trains. Few of the above Charing Cross trains connecting continue south, except the on and Ausrückfahrten to the depot in Morden.

The architects from T.P. Figgis designed station building is of red brick with white stone decorations. Special features are the Attica and the high dome on a raw plastered drum. Kennington is the only station of the C & SLR, which has remained largely in its original condition. Since 1974, the building is a listed building (Grade II). 2005 a major renovation.