Sloane Square tube station

Sloane Square is an underground, open at the top station of the London Underground in the urban district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It lies on the make Sloane Square in the Travelcard Zone 1, here trains to the Circle Line and the District Line. In 2011, 14.94 million passengers used the station.

The opening of the station took place on December 24, 1868 by the Metropolitan District Railway (predecessor company of the District Line ), as part of the first section between South Kensington and Westminster. In the late 1930s, the station was rebuilt and received escalators. However, a German air raid destroyed on 12 November 1940, the station almost complete; died as 37 people. After the war it was replaced by the station building a modern new building.

The station crosses the valley of the Westbourne, a tributary of the River Thames which flows north through Hyde Park. The river had a major impact on the construction of the station. She could not be built across the river, because the above-ground leadership of the track was excluded in this area due to the high price of land from the outset. A cross at the same level was also not in question, since the water with an expensive pump system would have had to be diverted. For the reason they built the station under the river and carried the water in an iron pipe across the tracks of time.