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

Transport for London
Zone	2
2004 annual usage	3.267 million †
2007 annual usage	4.223 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1915
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

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 Duffy song
4 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.

[edit] Transport links

Bus routes 6, 46, 187 and 414 serve the station.

[edit] Duffy song

'Warwick Avenue' is also the name of a song that makes reference to the station by the Welsh singer Duffy, released as a single in the UK and Ireland in May 2008.