Who owns tube stations

Thanks to its Art Deco design, the station appeared on a postage stamp in Name-dropped in the lyrics to Has it Come to This?

The steepest gradient on the tube network at 3. Brent Cross station was named after the shopping centre when it opened nearby in , not the other way around.

The only through-station in zones 1 to 6 on the Underground to be in a zone on its own — passengers travelling from the station leaving in either direction must cross a zone boundary.

The first ever Tesco was opened just down the road from the station, in The tins had no labels to keep cost down. Named after an asylum for Scottish children built nearby in Not as in mental asylum, but as in safe asylum. To be clear. Designed by the same architect as the Millennium Dome. Who was clearly copying his own homework. There was another Canning Town station north of Barking road, but when the DLR came along, instead of adding a platform to the existing station, they simply demolished the whole thing and built a new one from scratch.

The name was shortened over 60 times, and eventually settled on Cannon Street in the 17th century. It is therefore not related to the firearms. It was demolished and sold off brick by brick 20 years later. And therefore not related to the firearms, either. The longest single journey between neighbouring stations: 9 mins on average to Chesham. The Roundhouse next door used to be a railway turntable servicing the station. Furthest away from any other station, at 3. Once known as Acton Green — the name was changed due to there being seven other Acton stations already.

For 2 weeks in September , all of the adverts used in the station were replaced by photos of cats. Martin Cervenansky. The company now grows food under Clapham High Street. Was frequently used by T. The pub opposite is named after the architect who designed the station itself, Charles Holden. In fact, he designed a great many stations in his time. Was the site of a rail crash in due to fog — and the train that caused it is still active on the Severn Valley Railway.

Despite being smaller, and having fewer platforms, gets twice the number of passengers per year as Dagenham East. Not Chigwell. Dollis Hill played a part in the Second World War, as the code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built here. Has a heptagonal ticket hall, one of only two on the network.

The site of the last remaining blue police telephone box — radios took over in the s. Not actually in the borough of Acton, it just took the name to be part of the trend — there are seven Acton stations on the network.

Jerry Springer was born in the station during an air raid in WW2. Was supposed to connect to Mill Hill East, and you can still see the disused track that leads to it… —. Has a huge, empty substation attached to it, abandoned since Has the largest public London Underground station car park with spaces. Has a bench made from million year old stone outside of it. Was the place that the very first piece of work on the underground — or any underground railway on earth — took place.

A shaft was sunk in January there. The only tube station named after a tree. Apart from, technically Burnt Oak. Originally designed to transport livestock to Smithfield market — there are still cattle ramps onto the street West Smithfield for this purpose.

Has an original copy of the Harry Beck Tube map on display; he lived nearby and used the station frequently. Analysis of earth removed when tunnelling towards the station revealed that its site was the southern limit of a glacier which covered Britain in one of the Ice Ages. Due to confusion with popular duelling site Finsbury Field, when it opened the station was decorated with mosaics of duelling pistols. One of the two theories about the origin of the name? It was originally a swamp filled with annoying, buzzing gnats.

Was the last station on the Northern line to retain semaphore signals, replaced in The line running through Goldhawk Road station was active as early as , yet no station opened there until Despite having three lines run through it, it only has one pair of tracks, making it one of the most intensely used parts of the network. Used its original, century-old wooden escalator right up until On 8 December the station was damaged by a tornado which ripped off the roof and injured six people.

The lifts are the shallowest on the London Underground network, having a descent of just 0. And to get from one to the other without walking would require a minimum of 10 stops and 3 changes. In a reversal of most other stations, it has to be entered underground, but the station itself is entirely above ground. Is almost twice as far away from Harlesden town centre as Willesden Junction is. Technically the oldest station on the network: the mainline station was built in , predating Baker Street by 24 years.

It was opened for Underground trains in On its opening in , Hatton Cross was the high water mark of the network, with active stations on the London Underground; the number of stations in the network has since decreased to It is the only station on the network to have one-way train service. Despite being underground, the ceiling is made from laminate panels, allowing natural daylight to illuminate it. Back when it opened in , it was the first time that an airport had been directly served by an underground railway system.

When it was first built, the station was surrounded by fields — the town was essentially constructed around it. This was changed into a break room for drivers. Despite being hit by a V-1 flying bomb during WW2, the original station building stayed in use until it was demolished in The disused platforms and tunnels have sometimes been used for filming and have appeared in several productions EastEnders and Waking the Dead. Was used to store British Museum treasures during WW2. Built with a flat roof in order for a retail unit to be built on top of it.

Used to have a spiral escalator which is now stored in the Acton depot. Replaced Hounslow Town tube station, which was open for just three years. Due to the nearby military barracks, Winston Churchill used to frequent this station. The station is located entirely underground, with no surface presence — though there is an old station building that has since been used as a pizza restaurant and a hotel.

The lifts from that building are now ventilation shafts. She flails her arms, apparently. In December , the station was hit or at least grazed by a tornado. There used to be a South Kentish Town tube station down the road.

It became disused after strike action from the power station supplying it caused it to shut down, and they simply never re-opened it, even when the power came back on. Kenton, Kennington, and Kensington are, by total coincidence, derived from the same name — Keninton. The first station to be designed around escalators, rather than lifts. Has the shortest lift shaft on the network, at just 2.

Was originally on the Metropolitan Line, before being transferred to the Bakerloo Line, and finally landing on the Jubilee Line. Suffered huge congestion problems, which were solved when they built an exit specifically for Harrods.

Was originally called Notting Hill, but the name was changed to avoid confusion with Notting Hill Gate.

Is actually located half a kilometer away from Latimer Road. On all four platforms, film sprockets are painted down the entire length and on the top and bottom of the display area blue on the Piccadilly line platforms, and black on the Northern line platforms , due to the four premiere cinemas in Leicester Square.

Built on the original site of the Bethlehem Bedlam mental asylum. The station was originally built so that City workers would have easy access to Epping Forest. When Maida Vale station opened on 6 June it was entirely staffed by women due to shortages of male staff in the war.

It was the first station to have all-female staff. Its street-level entrances are in different boroughs: three are in Hackney, and one is in Haringey. It took an act of parliament to finally push construction through. Features a viaduct in which trains travel 18m above ground — the highest point on the Underground network. Its original name, Eastcheap, lasted precisely one month before it was changed to Monument.

Is the start of the longest tunnel on the Underground network, running Is the subject of a deliberately incomprehensible gameshow on BBC Radio 4, in which there are no rules.

The Tube celebrated its centenary here in with a series of events including a parade of underground trains. The bus shelter attached to it is Grade II listed. Is not actually north of Ealing, but east of it. Despite its name, it is not in the area historically known as North Greenwich which is on the Isle of Dogs, north of the River Thames ; an entirely different North Greenwich station used to be there, between and The safest tube station on the entire network, according to the MET.

Northala park next door features four man-made hills, constructed from the waste rubble of Wembley stadium. Is only m from Kenton station, making it the closest tube station pair outside zone 1.

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Who owns the land on which Underground stations are sited? Status Not open for further replies. Joined 7 Oct Messages 6, I imagine there's somewhat of a disparity between the deep-level tubes, where I would have thought it's possibly a case of merely paying for an easement each year, and the cut and cover tubes e. Metropolitan line where they might even own any road that's on top.

Any info appreciated, I was suggested towards this sub forum when asking this question at a recent event!