Maida Vale tube station

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Maida Vale
Location
Place	Maida Vale
Local authority	Westminster
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit	2.975 million
Transport for London
Zone	2
History
Key dates	Opened 1915
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

Maida Vale tube station is a London Underground station in Maida Vale in inner north-west London. The station is on the Bakerloo Line, between Kilburn Park and Warwick Avenue stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 2.

1 History
2 The station today
3 Transport links
4 Gallery
5 External links

[edit] History

Maida Vale opened on 6 June 1915 on the Bakerloo Line's extension from Paddington station to Queen's Park, although services had been running non-stop through the incomplete station to Kilburn Park since 31 January 1915 and to Queen's Park from 11 February 1915. The station is located at the junction of Elgin Avenue and Randolph Avenue and for a time prior to its opening the proposed name for the station was Elgin Avenue.

The station building, designed by the Underground Group's architect Stanley A Heaps, was constructed in a modified style of the earlier Leslie Green designed Bakerloo Line stations with glazed terra cotta façades. It was also one of the first London Underground stations built specifically to use escalators rather than lifts and therefore does not have the large semi-circular windows at first floor level that would have denoted the position of the lift machine room.

[edit] The station today

The station is, in 2006, undergoing a modernisation that will see the retention of many of the station's original features including the fine mosaic roundels inset into the ticket hall walls.