Edgware Road tube station

Edgware Road station stands on the corner of Chapel Street and Cabbell Street in the City of Westminster. It serves the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines and lies in a cutting open to the air. The station opened in 1863 as part of the world’s first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon. Charles Walter Clark rebuilt it between 1926 and 1928 when District services began. In 2005 a bomb exploded on a westbound Circle line train as it left the station, killing six passengers. A separate Bakerloo line station about 150 metres away shares the same name. The station is notable for its role in London’s transport history and its part in the 7 July 2005 attacks. It became the northern terminus for the District line’s Wimbledon service in 1928. Since December 2009 Circle line trains call twice on each journey, completing a loop via Victoria or reversing at Edgware Road. The usual service pattern uses four platforms for eastbound, Wimbledon, Circle and westbound trains. Trains can reverse on platforms two and three when needed. Visitors find an open-air station with platforms reached by stairs or lifts. The station buildings include a street-level entrance designed by Clark in the 1920s. Nearby, a large electrical substation clad in 1,500 square metres of vitreous enamel panels shows artwork called Wrapper by Jacqueline Poncelet. The panels carry 700 decorated motifs inspired by local history. The area around the station is busy with bus routes and an out-of-station interchange to the Bakerloo line station.