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Tottenham Court Road is a station on the London Underground, serving as an interchange between the Central Line and the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line. Tottenham Court Rd tube station taken on 15/11/03 by C Ford File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
The nickname the Tube comes from the circular tube-like tunnels through which the small-profile trains travel. ...
St Giles Circus is the region of Londons West End located at the intersection of Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road. ...
Travelcard Zone 1 is the central zone of Transport for Londons zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London. ...
1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Transport for London (TfL) is a government body responsible for the transport system in the City of London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. ...
The nickname the Tube comes from the circular tube-like tunnels through which the small-profile trains travel. ...
The Central Line is a line of the London Underground and coloured Red on the tube map. ...
The Victorian Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross The name Charing Cross, now given to a district of central London in the City of Westminster, comes from the original hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I placed a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. ...
For other uses, see Northern Line (disambiguation). ...
On the Central line it is between Oxford Circus and Holborn, and on the Northern Line it is between Leicester Square and Goodge Street. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. Oxford Circus, on the right you can see the tube-sign. ...
Holborn tube station Decorated metal panels on Central Line platforms at Holborn, near the British Museum. ...
Leicester Square tube station Leicester Square Tube Station is a station on the London Underground, located on Charing Cross Road, a short distance to the east of Leicester Square itself. ...
Goodge Street Goodge Street is a London Underground station on Tottenham Court Road. ...
Travelcard Zone 1 is the central zone of Transport for Londons zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London. ...
History
Central London Railway The station opened as part of the Central London Railway on July 30, 1900. From that date until September 24, 1933, the next station eastbound on the Central line was the now defunct British Museum; the next stop in that direction is now Holborn. The platforms are under Oxford Street west of the Tottenham Court Road junction, and were originally connected to the ticket hall via lifts at the end of the platforms. Escalator tunnels were built at the station in 1933 and the vacant lift shafts were used as ventilation ducts. In 1938, a chiller plant began operating at the station. It was decommissioned in 1949. The original station building was in Oxford Street and was designed in common with other Central London stations by Harry Bell Measures. Much modified, it now forms part of the station entrance, and some elements of the original facade survive above the canopy. For the medical meaning of central line, see central line. ...
July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 154 days remaining. ...
1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ...
September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ...
1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
British Museum tube station was a station on the London Undergrounds Central Line, located close to the British Museum. ...
Holborn tube station Decorated metal panels on Central Line platforms at Holborn, near the British Museum. ...
London Transport Boards experimental refrigeration plant was a chiller installed on the London Underground at Tottenham Court Road tube station. ...
Harry Bell Measures (1862 - 1940) was architect for a number of English improved housing developments for working men, such as the Rowton Houses in London and Birmingham. ...
Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway The Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (now called the Northern Line) arrived here on 22 June 1907 but used the name Oxford Street until an interchange (linking the eastbound Central Line with the southbound Northern Line via the ends of the platform) was created on 3 September 1908 from when the present name was used for both lines. The next station north on the Northern line was originally called Tottenham Court Road, but was renamed to Goodge Street at this time. 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. ...
June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 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). ...
September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). ...
1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Goodge Street Goodge Street is a London Underground station on Tottenham Court Road. ...
The original ticket office was on the south east corner of the junction of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, and its original lift shafts and emergency stairs are still extant. The emergency stairs are often used as access down to the ends of the Northern line platform, as there are currently insufficient escalators for the volume of traffic using the station. The lift shafts are used for offices and station facilities.
Centrepoint The original CCEHR station buildings were destroyed when the monolithic and highly controversial Centrepoint tower block was built. The opportunity was used to introduce escalators from the back of the central line lift shafts to a new ticket hall under the road junction itself (i.e. beneath St Giles' Circus), and a new tunnel driven from the front of the lift shaft to the centre of the platforms to aid in controlling flow. This resulted in the lift shafts becoming part of the passageways (though still notable due to their distinct roundedness), and the original Central Line ticket hall being cut off, although it is still retained as an exit (via a winding passageway). See also Sydney Tower, for Centrepoint in Australia Centre Point Centre Point (sometimes rendered as Centrepoint) is a substantial concrete and glass office building in central London, occupying 101-103 New Oxford Street, WC 1, close to St Giles Circus and almost directly above Tottenham Court Road tube station. ...
St Giles Circus is the region of Londons West End located at the intersection of Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road. ...
The northern line was also connected via escalators leading back from the foot of the central line escalators, however, these lead to the end of the northern line platforms, and are a source of congestion. This was eased by the addition of a small escalator at the centre of the platform leading back to the foot of the central line escalator. However this is in itself a cause of congestion, as traffic trying to leave the station from the northern line finds itself in the path of traffic entering and travelling to the central line.
In the 1984 the entire station was redecorated, losing the distinct tiling pattern of the Yerkes tube lines (which included the CCEHR), and of course, the plain white tiles of the Central London Railway. The new design was that of a tessellated mural by Eduardo Paolozzi (whose signature appears at several places within the station), and is a distinct and noticeable feature of the station. The mural's frenetic design is intended to reflect the station's position adjacent to Tottenham Court Road's large concentration of hi-fi and electronics shops. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Paolozzis Newton, bronze (1995) in the courtyard of the British Library. ...
High Fidelity is also the title of a book by Nick Hornby and a film directed by Stephen Frears, based upon Hornbys book. ...
Future The North-East exit of the station surfaces immediately in front of the Dominion Theatre, whereas the North-West and South-West exits surface on Oxford Street. Because of this and its interchange, the station is one of the busiest on the entire network and peak periods of the day entrance to the station is often briefly barred due to the sheer weight of numbers. The Dominion Theatre The Dominion Theatre is a theatre in London located on Tottenham Court Road close to St Giles Circus and Centre Point Tower. ...
To solve this congestion, Transport for London intend to drastically reconstruct large parts of the station. This will involve building under the forecourt of Centrepoint a much larger ticket office, as well as new sets of escalators to reach the centre of the northern line platforms from the ticket office, and the addition of greater Mobility Impaired Accessibility to the platforms. This has the benefit of removing a little used, badly cared for, and somewhat derelict underpass travelling south toward the east side of Charing Cross Road some way from the station. Transport for London (TfL) is a government body responsible for the transport system in the City of London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. ...
Centrepoint can refer to Centre Point in London, UK Sydney Tower in Sydney, Australia Centrepoint, a UK charity for homeless young people This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
If the planned Chelsea-Hackney tube is built (currently this is planned in a reduced way as Crossrail 2) it will have a station at Tottenham Court Road, and the development plans include facilities to take account of this.
If the long-proposed Crossrail project goes ahead, it too will add additional interchange facilities at Tottenham Court Road, as well as a new exit at Dean Street (leading from both the Crossrail platforms, and the parallel Central line platform), and require the demolition of the original Central line exit and the Astoria theatre in order to expand the western side of the original ticket office to include escalators down to Crossrail. Crossrail is a project to build a new east-west railway connection under central London, with one connection to the west and two to the east. ...
The London Astoria is a music venue at 157 Charing Cross Road in London. ...
External links - London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive Central Line station building in 1914.
- Photos of Paolozzi's mosaics in the station
- Conservation of the TCR Station Mosaics
The station was used for a sequence in the 1981 film An American Werewolf in London 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
An American Werewolf in London is a comedy/horror film released in 1981, written and directed by John Landis. ...
- Images from film of station prior to installation of Paolozzi mosaics
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