Warren Street tube station

Warren Street is a London Underground station, located at the intersection of Tottenham Court Road and Euston Road, named after nearby Warren Street. It is part of the Northern and Victoria lines.

Warren Street
Warren Street Location of Warren Street in Central London
Location	Euston Road
Local authority	London Borough of Camden
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	4
Fare zone	1
OSI	Euston Square[1]
London Underground annual entry and exit
2015	19.92 million[2]
2016	20.35 million[2]
2017	20.11 million[2]
2018	18.45 million[3]
2019	18.25 million[4]
Key dates
22 June 1907	Opened
Other information
External links	TfL station info page
WGS84	51.52472°N 0.13833°W
London transport portal

Location

The station is on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line, between Goodge Street and Euston, and the Victoria line between Oxford Circus and Euston.[5] It is in Travelcard Zone 1 and is the nearest tube station to University College Hospital,[6] being opposite the main building. It is also very close to Euston Square on the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines, which is at the other side of the hospital building.

London Buses routes 14, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 73, 88, 134, 205 and 390 and night routes N5, N20, N29, N73, N205, N253 and N279 serve the station.

History

The station was part of the original Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, running from Charing Cross to Camden Town. Work started on the station in 1902, designed by Leslie W. Green.[7] It was opened along with the rest of the line on 22 June 1907 by the President of the Board of Trade, David Lloyd George, under the name "Euston Road".[7][8] This name can still be seen in the Northern line platform tiling.[9] The station's name changed to "Warren Street" the following year, on 7 June 1908.[10] In the early 1930s Charles Holden designed the stone facade[11] and ground level buildings.[12] In September 1933, the station was rebuilt, with new escalators installed.[13] Tripod gates were fitted to the station entrance in July 1968.[14]

The Victoria platforms opened on 1 December 1968 as a temporary southern terminus of the line. The interchange was cumbersome as it involved a staircase and two escalators.[14] As part of introducing automatic ticket gates with the Victoria line, the ability to freely interchange with Euston Square station was withdrawn on 1 March 1969. Along with other Victoria line stations, it was originally decorated with tiles showing an illustration relating to the station's name - in this case, a rabbit warren.[15]

The Northern line northbound platform of the station was used for location filming in the 1972 horror movie Death Line, featuring a group of cannibals living underground.[6]

On 27 April 2012 Warren Street station became the first London Underground Wi-Fi enabled tube station.[16]

Incidents

On 23 November 1984, a fire broke out in a maintenance compound near Oxford Circus. The Victoria line was part-suspended, with trains terminating at Warren Street. The line reopened on 17 December. The fire was believed to be caused by a discarded cigarette, which led to a smoking ban on all below-ground components of the Underground, including trains, platforms and stations.[17][lower-alpha 1]

Gallery

• 
  Northern line northbound platform looking north, July 2008
• 
  Tiling on Northern line southbound platform, revealing the former station name, Euston Road
• 
  Roundel on Northern line platform
• 
  Victoria line northbound platform looking north, July 2008. After a few years, the station was renovated
• 
  Warren Street station viewed from the north-east across Euston Road

References

Notes

1. Following the King's Cross fire in 1987, smoking was banned on the Underground completely.[18]

Citations

1. "Out-of-station interchanges". Transport for London. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
2. "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures (2007–2017)" (XLSX). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
3. "Station Usage Data" (CSV). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 21 August 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
4. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
5. "Warren Street Underground Station". Transport for London. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
6. "Warren Street". Transport for London Artwork. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
7. Day & Reed 2010, pp. 76–77.
8. Smithers 2016, p. 9.
9. Badsey-Ellis 2005, p. 294.
10. Butt 1995, p. 241.
11. "Warren Street". Hidden London. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
12. "Design for Warren Street London Underground Station, London: perspective view". RIBApix. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
13. Lee 1968, p. 25.
14. Day & Reed 2010, p. 168.
15. Martin 2012, p. 237.
16. Andrew Laughlin (7 June 2012). "London King's Cross and Warren Street Tube stations get free WiFi". Digital Spy. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
17. Day & Reed 2010, p. 187.
18. Day & Reed 2010, p. 191.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Badsey-Ellis, Antony (2005). London's Lost Tube Schemes. Capital Transport. ISBN 185414-293-3.
• Day, John R; Reed, John (2010) [1963]. The Story of London's Underground. Capital Transport. ISBN 978-1-85414-341-9.
• Lee, Charles Edward (1968). Sixty Years of the Northern. London Transport Board.
• Martin, Andrew (2012). Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube. Profile Books. ISBN 978-1-847-65807-4.
• Smithers, Owen (2016). Automating the Northern line. Amberley. ISBN 978-1-445-65483-6.

External links

• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Station in 1914
  • Station in 1934 after rebuilding
  • Internal view of ticket office in 1934