Leicester Square tube station

Leicester Square is an underground station of the London Underground in the urban district of City of Westminster. It is not known at the Leicester Square itself, but about 100 meters to the east at the junction of Charing Cross Road and Cranbourne Street. In 2011, 38.78 million passengers used the station.

Located in the Travelcard Zone 1 and designed by the architect Leslie Green station provides a transfer possibility between the Northern Line and Piccadilly Line. In early plans it is still shown as Cranbourne Street. However, when she by the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway ( predecessor company of Piccadilly Line) was opened on December 15, 1906, the management had already decided on the name of the far more well-known place in the neighborhood. On 22 June 1907, the station of Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway followed (now the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line ).

Like all stations on the first section of the Piccadilly Line also owned Leicester Square at the beginning only elevators down to the platforms. Since the passenger frequency in the 1920s due to the extension of the Northern Line leapt and the planned extensions of the Piccadilly Line, a further increase was expected, the underground part of the station was at the beginning of the 1930s, completely remodeled. The plans for the new ticket hall and the new additional inputs derived from Charles Holden. The elevators were replaced by escalators, the elevator shaft is no longer needed now serves for ventilation.

Due to the terrorist attacks of 7 July 2005, the station on the Piccadilly Line was closed for a few weeks. On August 4, the re- opening took place.

In the upper floors of the known as Transad House terracotta building are the administrative offices of the Northern Line. In the years after its launch, there was the editor of Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, today you can see a set maltes wicket on one of the inputs.

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