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Chancery Lane tube station
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Image:Chancery Lane Underground Station & Train- London - 240404.jpg thumb|Chancery Lane tube station platform, with arriving Central Line train
'''Chancery Lane''' is a
London Underground station in central
London. It is on the
Central Line between
St. Paul's tube station St. Paul's, and
Holborn tube station Holborn stations, and is in
Travelcard Zone 1. Originally the station had been more evenly spaced, but when the Central Line station at
British Museum tube station British Museum was closed and replaced with a new one at Holborn, this ceased to be the case.
The station was opened on
July 30,
1900 with its current name, but from
June 25,
1934 was known for a brief while as ''Chancery Lane (Grays Inn)''.
The original exit was on the north side of the street, by the junction with Chancery Lane, but was later moved to
Staple Inn (one of the few surviving buildings from before the
Great Fire of London) when the provision of escalators necessitated a new ticket hall to the east of the original. The new ticket hall was chosen to be subterranean, and as such connects both sides of the street as a subway.
It is one of eight London Underground stations which has a
London deep-level shelters deep-level air-raid shelter underneath it. After
World War II this was turned into
Kingsway telephone exchange.
On
January 25,
2003, a
Central Line train derailed at Chancery Lane, injuring 32 passengers, after a motor became detached from the train. The entire line, and the
Waterloo & City Line (which also uses
London Underground 1992 Stock 1992 Stock trains), was closed whilst the cause of the failure was determined and appropriate modifications made to the trains.
Platforms
The Westbound platform is '''below''' the Eastbound, but this situation is reversed at
St. Paul's tube station St. Paul's (see [http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/central.html]).
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