Warren Street | |
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 Station building | |
  Warren Street Location of Warren Street in Central London | |
| Location | Euston Road |
| Local authority | London Borough of Camden |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| OSI | Euston Square[1] |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2020 |  7.74 million[2] |
| 2021 | 7.04 million[3] |
| 2022 |  13.01 million[4] |
| 2023 | 14.08 million[5] |
| 2024 | 14.78 million[6] |
| Key dates | |
| 22 June 1907 | Opened |
| 1 December 1968 | Victoria line opened |
| Other information | |
| External links | |
| Coordinates | 51°31′29″N0°08′18″W / 51.52472°N 0.13833°W /51.52472; -0.13833 |
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Warren Street (/ˈwɒrənˌstriːt/) is aLondon Underground station. It is located at the intersection ofTottenham Court Road andEuston Road in the northernmost part ofFitzrovia, and named after adjoiningWarren Street. The station is served by theNorthern andVictoria lines. It is inLondon fare zone 1. Even though it is relatively used less than a number of neighbouring stations, it provides an interchange between the two lines as well as access to theUniversity College Hospital.
The station opened in 1907 asEuston Road,[7] and was designed byLeslie Green. It was refurbished in the 1930s byCharles Holden, when escalators were first installed. An extensive refurbishment took place in the late 1960s to accommodate the Victoria line, when it briefly acted as a temporary terminus. It was the first station on the underground to have a dedicatedWi-Fi surface in 2012.
The premises adjoinsWarren Street,Euston Road andTottenham Court Road; Warren Street is named after the 18th-century naval officerSir Peter Warren.[8] The station is on theCharing Cross branch of the Northern line betweenEuston andGoodge Street stations, and on the Victoria line betweenOxford Circus and Euston stations.[9] It is inLondon fare zone 1 and is the nearest tube station toUniversity College Hospital, being opposite the main building.[10] It is also a 0.1-mile (160 m) walk toEuston Square on theCircle,Hammersmith & City andMetropolitan lines, which is at the other side of the hospital building.[11][12]
London Buses routes18,24,27,29,30,73,134,205 and390 and night routesN5,N20,N29,N73,N205,N253 andN279 serve the station.[13]
The station has a relatively low footfall for Victoria line stations in the area. In 2020, the annualised total for Warren Street was around 7.7 million, lower thanEuston (8.8 million),Green Park (9.4 million),Oxford Circus (14.6 million),Kings Cross St Pancras (18.8 million) and Victoria (23 million).[1]
The station was part of the originalCharing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, running from Charing Cross to Camden Town. Work started on the station in 1902, designed byLeslie Green.[14][15] It was opened along with the rest of the line on 22 June 1907 by thePresident of the Board of Trade,David Lloyd George, under the name "Euston Road".[14][16] This name can still be seen in the Northern line platform tiling.[17] The station's name changed to "Warren Street" the following year, on 7 June 1908.[18]
In the early 1930s,Charles Holden designed a refurbishment for the station, including the surface building.[19][20] In September 1933, the station was rebuilt, with escalators installed in place of the original lifts.[21]Tripod gates were fitted to the station entrance in July 1968.[22]
Warren Street was not in the original proposals for the Victoria line, but was added by the time work began in 1962. This was done to break up a lengthy section of tube between Euston and Oxford Circus, and provide an additional public transport access point to the local area.[23]
The Victoria line platforms opened on 1 December 1968 as a temporary southern terminus of the line.[22] Trains ran into the southbound platform and reversed; the northbound platform was not originally used.[24] The interchange with the Northern Line was cumbersome as it involved a staircase and two escalators.[22] The extension southwards towards Victoria officially opened on 7 March 1969, though through trains had been running since 24 February.[25] Along with other Victoria line stations, the new complex was originally decorated with tiles showing an illustration relating to the station's name – in this case, a maze (signifying a warren).[26]
On 27 April 2012, Warren Street station became the first London Underground Wi-Fi enabled tube station.[27]
On 23 November 1984, a fire broke out in a maintenance compound near Oxford Circus. The Victoria line was part-suspended, with trains terminating at Warren Street. The line reopened on 17 December. The fire was believed to be caused by a discarded cigarette, which led to a smoking ban on all below-ground components of the Underground, including trains, platforms and stations.[28][a]
On 23 July 2018, a woman died after being hit by a Victoria line train at the station. The police did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances.[30]
The Northern line northbound platform of the station was used for location filming in the 1972 horror filmDeath Line, featuring a group of cannibals living underground.[10]
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