Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway
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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 (later the London Electric Railway, LER). Today, the core part of the line forms the Charing Cross branch of the London Underground network's Northern Line.
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[edit] History
Planned in 1892 as a line to connect Hampstead High Street with the southern end of Charing Cross Road, with a spur from Euston Road to serve the mainline stations of Kings Cross and St Pancras, Royal Assent was granted for the main route in 1893 but withheld for the spur. At this time the only stations were to have been at Charing Cross, Oxford Street, Euston Road, Seymour Terrace, Chalk Farm, Belsize Park and Hampstead.
With further bills presented to Parliament to extend the route to Charing Cross itself, and to Golders Green and Highgate in the north, the line opened on 22 June 1907 as The Hampstead Tube with the following stations:
[edit] Stations at opening
- Charing Cross (renamed Strand in 1915, reverted to Charing Cross in 1979)
- Leicester Square
- Oxford Street (renamed Tottenham Court Road in 1908)
- Tottenham Court Road (renamed Goodge Street in 1908)
- Euston Road (renamed Warren Street in 1908)
- Euston
- Mornington Crescent (planned name was Seymour Terrace)
- Camden Town
[edit] Golder's Green branch
[edit] Highgate branch
- South Kentish Town
- Kentish Town
- Tufnell Park
- Highgate (renamed Archway in 1939)
[edit] Development
- See Northern Line for a full history.
In 1914 the CCE&HR was extended south from Charing Cross to Embankment.
During 1923 and 1924 the CCE&HR was extended north from Golders Green to Edgware.
In 1924 and 1926, physical connections were constructed between the CCE&HR and the City & South London Railway (C&SLR), another of the LER's lines. The links were made between Euston and Camden Town and between Embankment and Kennington, in conjunction with the C&SLR's extension to Morden. Once connected the lines were operational merged and became known as the Morden – Edgware Line.
In preparation for plans to incorporate the London and North Eastern Railway's (LNER's) "Northern Heights" lines into the Morden – Edgware Line, it was renamed the Northern Line in 1937.
[edit] See also
- Leslie Green - Architect of stations on the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway
