Warwick Avenue tube station

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Warwick Avenue
Location
Place	Little Venice
Local authority	Westminster
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit	3.267 million
Transport for London
Zone	2
History
Key dates	Opened 1915
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

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

1 History
2 The station today
- 2.1 Transport links
3 External links

[edit] History

Warwick Avenue opened on 31 January 1915 on the Bakerloo Line's extension from Paddington station to Queen's Park. The station is located at the junction of Warwick Avenue, Warrington Crescent and Clifton Gardens. For a time prior to its opening, the proposed name for the station was Warrington Crescent.

[edit] The station today

There are no surface buildings and the station is accessed by two sets of steps to a sub-surface ticket hall. It was one of the first London Underground stations built specifically to use escalators rather than lifts. A plain, utilitarian brick ventilation shaft has been built on the traffic island in the middle of the road to improve underground ventilation of the tunnels.