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South Kentish Town tube station is a closed London Underground station. It was on the Northern Line between Camden Town and Kentish Town. The building still exists on Kentish Town Road. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2560x1920, 3304 KB) Description: Former tube station at South Kentish Town, 2005 Photographer: User:Justinc File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): South Kentish Town tube station Metadata...
Kentish Town is a place in London in the London Borough of Camden. ...
The Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR), was a deep-level tube railway constructed in London by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited. ...
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This article is about the British underground transport system. ...
For other uses, see Northern Line (disambiguation). ...
Camden Town tube station is a major crossover point for the two branches of the Northern Line and the busiest station on the entire London Underground. ...
Kentish Town is a London Underground station and mainline station in the London Borough of Camden. ...
The station opened on June 27, 1907 as one of the original stations on the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, as part of the branch to Highgate (now Archway) station. June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining. ...
1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
The Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR), was a deep-level tube railway constructed in London by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited. ...
Archway tube station is a London Underground station in north London, near Archway Tower at the intersection of Holloway Road and Junction Road. ...
The station was temporarily closed following strike action at the Lots Road power station during the afternoon of June 5, 1924, trains having called at the station that morning. In the event it was decided not to re-open the station after the power was back on due to the very low number of passengers using the station. During World War II it was used as an air raid shelter. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
Lots Road Power Station, viewed from the River Thames Lots Road Power Station was a coal-fired power station adjacent to the River Thames in Lots Road near Victoria railway station in London, England which supplied electric power to the London Underground system. ...
June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ...
1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
Air raid shelters are structures for the protection of the civil population as well as military personnel against enemy attacks from the air. ...
The above-ground building remains in place as a shop and a sauna (2005). With the redevelopment plans for Camden Town station there have been occasional proposals to rebuild the platforms and the station.
A prose piece called South Kentish Town was written in 1951 by Sir John Betjeman, and told the fictional story of a passenger who became trapped in the disused station. It was based on a true incident where a train stopped at the station by mistake and opened its doors, but in real life no one was trapped. Sir John Betjeman (28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was a British poet and writer on architecture. ...
External link
- London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive. South Kentish Town Station, circa 1909.
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