Tottenham Court Road tube station

Tottenham Court Road is an underground station of the London Underground. It is located in the City of Westminster, in Travelcard Zone 1 at St. Giles ' Circus, the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street. Here intersect at two levels, the Central Line and the Northern Line. In 2011, 23.99 million passengers used the station.

History

The station was opened on 30 July 1900 as part of the main line of the Central London Railway (CLR ), the predecessor of the Central Line. Harry Bell Measures designed the station building. The range of Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (now the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line ) reached this area by 22 Juni, 1907. However your station was first called Oxford Street, until the opening of a pedestrian tunnel connecting the station on the CLR September 3, 1908. the closest station to the north, the first Tottenham Court Road was called, received the new Goodge Street on the same day.

1933 were replaced by the elevators escalators, the former elevator shafts are used since then as part of the ventilation system. From 1938 we tested a then novel ventilation system here. By the spraying of water, the temperature should be lowered in the tunnel. However, the system is not proved successful and was expanded again in 1949. The operating cost was eight times higher than that of a fan.

The original station building of the CCE & HR 1963 was demolished to make way for the construction of the controversial skyscraper Centre Point. On this occasion, we also built new escalators and passageways as well as a new distribution level. In 1984, we decorated the entire station new, then removes the original wall tiles and replaced them with mosaics of the Pop Art artist Eduardo Paolozzi. 1981 originated here individual scenes of the horror film An American Werewolf.

Future

Tottenham Court Road is one of the busiest stations of the network of London Underground. The four inputs occur frequently jams, which is why they must be occasionally closed during rush hour so as not to overload the station. For this reason, it is currently significantly expanded through the construction of a new ticket hall under the forecourt of Centre Point, new escalators and barrier-free access. From 2 April to 28 November 2011, the platforms of the Northern Line were closed due to construction. The work is expected to last until 2016.

In addition, there is the S -Bahn -like railway tunnel route Crossrail under construction, which will run in east-west direction between Maidenhead and Shenfield from 2018. For this purpose, the original ticket hall must be expanded and a new hall at Dean Street will be built. Project management is also the railway Chelsea - Hackney in the southwest-northeast direction, which here also is to receive a station.