St. Paul's tube station

St. Paul's is an underground station of the London Underground in the City of London. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 1, a few meters north-east of St Paul's Cathedral. Here keep the Central Line. On the day of use about 47,000 customers who stop. In 2011, 17.08 million passengers used the station.

The opening took place on July 30, 1900 by the Central London Railway, the predecessor of the Central Line. Initially called the Station Post Office, as the entrance is opposite the General Post Office, the former headquarters of the British Post Office was. On February 1, 1937, adopted new escalators in operation, which connected the platforms with a new ticket hall. The entrance was moved to the west and was now closer to the much more famous cathedral. After renaming the train station, St. Paul 's, Blackfriars, 1937, the metro station now given this name.

At the time of establishment of the platforms above the streets were very narrow. Since the tunnels then only the layout of the streets followed in order to avoid compensation of vibrations to buildings, the leading eastward track is over the westbound. In the neighboring station Chancery Lane, this is exactly the opposite.