Archway tube station

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Archway
Location
Place	Archway
Local authority	London Borough of Islington
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit	6.757 million
Transport for London
Zone	2 and 3
History
Key dates	Opened 1907
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

Archway tube station is a London Underground station in north London, underneath the Archway Tower, at the intersection of Holloway Road and Junction Road in the area known as Archway.

It is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line, between Highgate and Tufnell Park. It is in both Travelcard Zone 2 and Zone 3.

Originally named Highgate, the Leslie Green designed station opened on 22 June 1907 as one of the northern terminals of what was then the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR).

In 1930 the station was upgraded with escalators to replace the original lifts and the secondary entrance was replaced with a modern design by Charles Holden, virtually identical to one he built at the same time at Hammersmith.

In 1939, the line was extended to Highgate, and later East Finchley station as part of the New Works Programme. The station was renamed Highgate (Archway) (after the nearby high road bridge over Archway Road), then Archway (Highgate), before becoming simply Archway with the Highgate name being reassigned to the new station constructed beneath the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) surface station of the same name. The layout of the platforms and underground passenger areas still reflect the station's former role as a terminus. The platform walls once featured the distinctive and elegantly simple tiling schemes used by Holden on the underground stations constructed at this time. Cream tiles were used throughout with the station name band formed of letter shaped tiles inset into a background of cream tiles incised to accept the lettering.

Similar tiling schemes can be seen at Bethnal Green and the stations on the tunnelled section of the Hainault branch of the Central Line (for example Gants Hill). All were built in the late 1930s/early 1940s. The tiles at Archway were replaced several years ago by retiling works.

During the tunneling of the tunnel between Archway and Highgate, a major pipe was cut through and flooded the tunnel.

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The following London bus routes serve the station (frequency are for Mon-Fri off peak, correct at 12 June 2006)

4 (Archway Station-Waterloo Station) every 10 minutes
17 (Archway Station Junction Rd-London Bridge station) every 8 minutes
41 (Archway Station-Tottenham Hale Station) every 5 minutes
43 (Friern Barnet Library-London Bridge Station) every 6-7 minutes
134 (North Finchley Tally Ho Corner-Tottenham Court Road Station) every 6 minutes
143 (Archway Station-Brent Cross Shopping Centre) every 12 minutes
210 (Brent Cross Shopping Centre-Finsbury Park Station) every 7-8 minutes
263 (Archway Station-Barnet Hospital) every 10 minutes
271 (Highgate Village South Grove-Moorgate Finsbury Square) every 8 minute
390 (Archway Station-Notting Hill Gate) every 8 minutes
C11 (Archway Station-Brent Cross Shopping Centre) every 10 minutes
W5 (Archway Station-Harringay Sainsbury's) every 12 minutes