Mornington Crescent tube station

Mornington Crescent is an underground station of the London Underground. It is located in the London Borough of Camden, at the junction of Eversholt Street and Hampstead Road ( Mornington Crescent itself is a side street of the latter ). The station, which was used in 2011 of 4.30 million passengers is situated about half a kilometer north of the station Euston in Travelcard Zone 2; here trains to the Northern Line.

History

The opening of the station took place on June 22, 1907 by the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, one of the two predecessor companies of the Northern Line. Before the building was proposed as a station name Seymour Street. After the opening of the station was only little used. For decades, it was closed on weekends and until 1966 passed numerous trains the station on weekdays without stopping.

On 23 October 1992, the station was completely closed to replace the now 85 years old elevators. It was planned to take the station in a year again. However, the overall decline was now so advanced that a complete restoration was necessary. This dragged on for years and there were even attempts to completely remove the station. After a protest campaign, work finally went on, so that the station on 27 April 1998 was reopened.

Since the reopening of the station is also open on weekends in order to relieve the neighboring Camden Town station, which often reaches its capacity limits due to the popular Camden Market.

Cultural Significance

Nationally known, the station is through the game Mornington Crescent, a parody of strategy games in the satirical show I'm Sorry I Have not a Clue on BBC Radio 4 was the official reopening of the station in 1998 by four of the comedian, which the " had driven development "of the game. At the station building is since 2002 a plaque attached that, a deceased Mornington Crescent creator reminiscent of Willie Rushton.

Mornington Crescent is, a song on the album The Life Pursuit of the pop band Belle and Sebastian. The station is mentioned in many books of Robert Rankin, also in the book The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross. The video for the title of the English Be There UNKLE project was shot largely in Mornington Crescent.

Location and architecture

Mornington Crescent is located on the Charing Cross branch line between Camden Town and Euston. Also between these two stations leads the City or bank branch line, but directly and not via Mornington Crescent. In the current network map Mornington Crescent is drawn on the western side, although it is in reality on the eastern side, because the two line branches intersect at Euston and Camden Town runs to the bank branch to the west of Charing Cross branch.

The station building is a particularly well-preserved example of the Leslie Green for the subsidiaries of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London established in a uniform style building. Typical features are the blood red glazed terracotta brick, large semicircular windows on the upper floor and toothed cornices. Since 1987, the building is a listed building (Grade II).