Arsenal Tube Station at night

Platform of Arsenal tube station - "Gillespie Road" is still clearly displayed on the wall

Arsenal tube station, in Highbury, north London, is a London Underground station located near Arsenal Stadium, the home of Arsenal football club. It is on the Piccadilly Line, in Travelcard Zone 2, between Holloway Road and Finsbury Park tube stations. Arsenal Tube Station at night I, User:Richard W.M. Jones, took this picture, and I hereby release this image under the GFDL. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Arsenal Tube Station at night I, User:Richard W.M. Jones, took this picture, and I hereby release this image under the GFDL. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2592x1944, 995 KB) Interior of Arsenal tube station. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2592x1944, 995 KB) Interior of Arsenal tube station. ... Highbury is a place in the London Borough of Islington. ... St. ... Slight modifications to the famous London Underground roundel indicate the name of each station on platform and some outdoor signs. ... Arsenal Stadium (looking North-West) Arsenal Stadium, built in 1913, is the home ground of Arsenal Football Club. ... Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are a football club from north London, and are one of the most successful clubs in English football. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... The Piccadilly Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark blue on the Tube map. ... Travelcard Zone 2 is the second most inward zone of Transport for Londons zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London. ... Holloway Road is a station on the Piccadilly Line of the London Underground in Zone 2, between Caledonian Road and Arsenal. ... The main line platforms at Finsbury Park Finsbury Park station is a busy and often chaotic transport interchange in north London, between two London Underground lines (the Piccadilly Line and the Victoria Line), National Rail and two bus stations, one on each side of the railway station. ...

Opened as Gillespie Road on 15 December 1906 the later arrival of the football stadium led to a successful campaign for a change of name, and on 31 October 1932 it was renamed Arsenal (Highbury Hill). Over time, the suffix was gradually dropped, however the original tiled walls of the platforms still bear the Gillespie Road name spelt out in large letters. Gillespie Road is a road in Highbury, North London next to Arsenal Stadium. ... December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ...

The station is located in a narrow Victorian residential street and when built the station building was squeezed incongruously between residential properties on each side, occupying the width of just two Victorian terraced houses. Even after the surface building was rebuilt in the early 1930s and widened (with a further house being demolished), Arsenal station has one of the narrowest frontages of any underground station. The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles during the Victorian era: Neoclassicism Gothic Revival Italianate Second Empire Neo-Grec Romanesque Revival (Includes Richardsonian Revival) Renaissance Revival Queen Anne Jacobethan architecture (the precusor to the Queen Anne style) British Arts and Crafts movement painted... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ...

The station may be one of the least-used on the whole Underground network, with just under 2m estimated entries and exits in the year 2003 (for comparison, neighbouring Holloway Road had 5.6m for the same period) [1]. The station remains largely deserted except on matchdays; even then, it is neglected by many supporters in favour of the nearby Finsbury Park station, which in addition to having a link to the Victoria Line is also a bus and national rail interchange. The latter is also popular with Arsenal supporters because it has the club superstore just outside. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The main line platforms at Finsbury Park Finsbury Park station is a busy and often chaotic transport interchange in north London, between two London Underground lines (the Piccadilly Line and the Victoria Line), National Rail and two bus stations, one on each side of the railway station. ... The Victoria Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured light blue on the Tube map. ... TheBus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ... A store is an enclosure for holding articles. ...

External links

• London's Tranport Museum Photographic Archive Station exterior, 1907
• London's Tranport Museum Photographic Archive Rebuilt station building in 1934.

1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Slight modifications to the famous London Underground roundel indicate the name of each station on platform and some outdoor signs. ... Holloway Road is a station on the Piccadilly Line of the London Underground in Zone 2, between Caledonian Road and Arsenal. ... The Piccadilly Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark blue on the Tube map. ... The main line platforms at Finsbury Park Finsbury Park station is a busy and often chaotic transport interchange in north London, between two London Underground lines (the Piccadilly Line and the Victoria Line), National Rail and two bus stations, one on each side of the railway station. ...