City Road tube station
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| Place | Islington |
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| Opened by | City & South London Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
City Road on the London Underground is a disused tube station. It was one of the stations built when the City & South London Railway (C&SLR) (now part of the Northern Line) extended its tunnels from Moorgate to Angel in 1901. It is located between Old Street and Angel.
City Road station was closed in 1922 when the line was reconstructed to allow for the running of standard size tube trains - the C&SLR having been originally constructed with tunnels of a smaller diameter. Always disappointing in terms of traffic, City Road was never reopened. Both station tunnels still survive (although the platforms have been removed) and they are clearly visible from the offside window of a passing train. City Road remains as the only twin-track C&SLR tube station that was not altered during the reconstruction of the line.
City Road station is relatively inconspicuous from the surface: the only suggestion that a station ever existed is a brick ventilation shaft that incorporates parts of the original station building and which covers the site of the lift shaft and emergency staircase on City Road itself.
[edit] External link
- London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive City Road station in 1915.
- City Road station, includes underground photos.
