Angel tube station

Angel station stands in Islington High Street, a deep-level Underground stop on the Northern line between King’s Cross St Pancras and Old Street. It opened in 1901 as the northern end of the City & South London Railway and became a through station six years later when the line reached Euston. The original building by Sydney Smith stood at City Road and Torrens Street, reached by three lifts. Overcrowding and a narrow platform led to a rebuild between 1989 and 1992, turning the southbound platform into the widest on the network. The rebuilt station has the longest escalators on the Underground, rising 27 metres over 61 metres of travel. A sculpture of an angel by Kevin Boys Blacksmiths was added in 1996 above the ticket hall. In 2007 the station gained 77 CCTV cameras and nine Help Points with induction loops for hearing-impaired passengers. A dead-end siding once stored trains but closed in 1959 and was later reused as a diversion tunnel for the new northbound platform. Visitors enter via the ground floor of the Angel Square office complex on Islington High Street. Two flights of escalators descend at right angles to the platforms, which lie far below street level. The station links to theatres such as Sadler’s Wells and the Almeida, to City University and to Camden Passage’s antiques market. Buses along Islington High Street provide easy onward travel across central London.