North Greenwich tube station
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North Greenwich | |
Location | |
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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 |
2005 annual usage | 9.604 million † |
2007 annual usage | 17.28 million † |
History | |
Key dates | Opened 1999 |
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail |
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† Data from Transport for London [1] | |
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 The O2 (formerly 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.
North Greenwich is one of the largest stations 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 (now The O2) during 2000, between Canary Wharf and Canning Town on the Jubilee Line, in Travelcard Zones 2 and 3.
Short journeys from Central London terminate at North Greenwich, entering and leaving the station at Platform 2. Platform 2 can also be used if short running from Stratford is needed, such as during engineering works.
North Greenwich station track system is built in a certain way that an extension from there would be easy to do. As it is planned that there will be a phase 2 extension for the Jubilee line. The extension would go towards Thamesmead. However if Crossrail goes ahead the extension may not happen also it is on the long term agenda list.
North Greenwich Jubilee Line station is co-located with a bus station, allowing interchange with bus services to Stratford, Bexleyheath, Chislehurst, 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. Images are available from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) case study[1].
[edit] References
- ^ North Greenwich Underground Station. Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
Preceding station | London Underground | Following station | ||
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towards Stanmore
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Jubilee line |
towards Stratford
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