North Greenwich tube station

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North Greenwich
Location
Place	Greenwich Peninsula
Local authority	London Borough of Greenwich
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Owned by	London Underground
Platforms in use	3
Transport for London
Zone	2 and 3
Annual entry/exit	9.604 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1999
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
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North Greenwich is a station on London Underground's Jubilee Line, opened in 1999.

Despite its name, North Greenwich is not in the area historically known as North Greenwich, on the Isle of Dogs, north of the river; an entirely different North Greenwich railway station used to be there, between 1872 and 1926. It is adjacent to the Millennium Dome, at the northern end of the Greenwich peninsula, on the south bank of the River Thames. Technically the tube station is actually closer to Charlton than Maritime Greenwich. However it is at the northern-most tip of the London Borough of Greenwich, which perhaps provides the best explanation of the name.

It is the largest station on the Jubilee Line, capable of handling around 20,000 passengers an hour, having been designed to cope with the large number of visitors expected at the Millennium Dome during 2000, between Canary Wharf and Canning Town on the Jubilee Line, in Travelcard Zones 2 and 3. On very few occasions or due to engineering work, Jubilee Line train can terminate at North Greenwich. Trains terminating will go into platform 2 and then go to reverse sidings in the tunnel.

It is co-located with a bus station, allowing interchange with bus services to Stratford, Bexleyheath, Greenwich, and Lewisham.

The striking blue-tiled and glazed interior, with raking concrete columns rearing up inside the huge underground space, was designed by architect Will Alsop.