Borough tube station

Borough tube station is a London Underground station in The Borough, London Borough of Southwark. It is on the Northern Line, between Elephant & Castle and London Bridge stations. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.

The station entrance is in Borough High Street (part of the A3), on the corner of Marshalsea Road. The A2 terminates opposite it.

Facility

A lift means that the station is accessible without stairs to passengers travelling northbound from the station, but there is a short flight of steps to reach the southbound platform. It is usually quicker for able-bodied passengers to take the spiral stairs than the lift.Fact|date=April 2008

The indicators in the station are unusual. They are designed to show the next four trains, rather than three as at most stations. Further, there are also indicators in the entrance hall, so passengers can see them before getting into the lifts or going downstairs.

History

The station was opened on 18 December 1890 as part of the first deep-level tube, the City & South London Railway (C&SLR) and was rebuilt in the 1920s when the tunnels were enlarged. After many years of neglect during which it was one of the most miserable looking stations on the whole Underground system, the station has received a complete refurbishment, a project which is nearing completion.

Although little of the original station remains, Borough is the most northern of the original C&SLR stations. North of here the railway originally followed a different route than at present with the tunnels running to the original terminus at King William Street. This route was abandoned and new tunnels in the direction of London Bridge and Moorgate were constructed and opened in 1900.

During the Second World War, parts of the disused tunnels to King William Street were adapted into a large public air raid shelter by the local borough council, and this is commemorated by a plaque on the side of the current building.

Gallery

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Entrance_on_Borough_High_StreetImage:BoroughTube.jpg|View_from_Marshalsea_RoadImage:BoroughTube2.jpg|Architecture_at_the_top_of_the_stationImage:Borough_tube_station_southwark_detail.jpg|Concrete_roundel_featureImage:Borough_tube_station_lifts_01.jpg|Two_lifts_give_access_to_the_platforms

External links

ltmcollection|88/9884388.jpg|London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive. Borough station after rebuilding, 1925.

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