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Tottenham Court Road station

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Tottenham Court Road tube station

Tottenham Court Road is a station on the London Underground, serving as an interchange between the Central Line and the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line.

On the Central line it is between Oxford Circus and Holborn, and on the Northern Line it is between Leicester Square and Goodge Street. It is in zone 1.

The station opened as part of the Central London Railway on July 30, 1900. From that date until September 24, 1933, the next station eastbound on the Central line was the now defunct British Museum; the next stop in that direction is now Holborn.

The Northern line arrived here on 22 June 1907 but used the name Oxford Street until a formal interchange between the lines was created on 3 September 1908 from when the present name was used for both lines. The next station north on the Northern line was called Tottenham Court Road, it was renamed to Goodge Street.

The ticket office is located beneath St Giles' Circus, the junction of Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road, Tottenham Court Road and New Oxford Street.

Future

The North-East exit of the station surfaces immediately in front of the Dominion Theatre, wheras the North-West and South-West exits surface on Oxford Street. Because of this and its interchange, the station is one of the busiest on the entire network and at some peak periods of the day entrance to the station has been closed due to the sheer weight of numbers.

To solve this congestion, Transport for London intend to drastically reconstruct large parts of the station. This will involve building under the forecourt of Centrepoint a much larger ticket office, as well as new sets of escalators to reach the centre of the northern line platforms from the ticket office, and the addition of greater Mobility Impaired Accessibility to the platforms.

If the planned Chelsea-Hackney tube is built (currently this is planned in a reduced way as Crossrail 2) it will have a station at Tottenham Court Road, and the development plans include facilities to take account of this.

If the long-proposed Crossrail project goes ahead, it too will add additional interchange facilities at Tottenham Court Road, as well as a new exit at Dean Street (leading from both the Crossrail platforms, and the parrallel Central line platform)), and require the demolition of the original Central line exit, and the Astoria (also known as G-A-Y - a nightclub which frequently hosts famous stars), in order to expand the western side of the original ticket office to include escalators down to Crossrail.