Back هولبورن (محطة مترو أنفاق لندن) Arabic Holborn (stanice metra v Londýně) Czech Holborn Station Danish Holborn (London Underground) German Estación de Holborn Spanish ایستگاه متروی هوبرن Persian Holbornin metroasema Finnish Holborn (métro de Londres) French 合邦站 GAN תחנת הרכבת התחתית הולבורן HE

Holborn tube station

Holborn London Underground
Oblique angle view of pedestrians on a wide pavement passing the station entrance in a stone building. A long blue canopy bears the words "Holborn station" and a clear glazed screen above contains the London Underground roundel in blue, white and red glass.
Station entrance
Holborn is located in Central London
Holborn
Holborn
Location of Holborn in Central London
LocationHolborn
Local authorityLondon Borough of Camden
Managed byLondon Underground
Number of platforms4
Fare zone1
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019Increase 31.25 million[1]
2020Decrease 7.17 million[2]
2021Increase 11.25 million[3]
2022Increase 21.06 million[4]
2023Decrease 20.24 million[5]
Key dates
1906Opened (GNP&BR)
1907Opened (Aldwych branch)
1933Opened (Central line)
1994Closed (Aldwych branch)
Other information
External links
Coordinates51°31′03″N 0°07′12″W / 51.5174°N 0.1201°W / 51.5174; -0.1201
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Holborn (/ˈhoʊbərn/ HOH-bə(r)n)[a] is a London Underground station in Holborn, Central London, located at the junction of High Holborn and Kingsway.[10] It is served by the Central and Piccadilly lines. On the Central line the station is between Tottenham Court Road and Chancery Lane stations, and on the Piccadilly line it is between Covent Garden and Russell Square stations. The station is in Travelcard Zone 1. Close by are the British Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury Square, London School of Economics and Sir John Soane's Museum.

Located at the junction of two earlier tube railway schemes, the station was opened in 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR). The station entrances and below ground circulation were largely reconstructed for the introduction of escalators and the opening of Central line platforms in 1933, making the station the only interchange between the lines. Before 1994, Holborn was the northern terminus of the short and little-frequented Piccadilly line branch to Aldwych and two platforms originally used for this service are disused. One of the disused platforms has been used for location filming when a London Underground station platform is needed.

While the two disused platforms are now closed to the public, they can be still be seen on a "Hidden London" guided tour held by London Transport Museum.[11]

  1. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  6. ^ Olausson, Lena (2006). "Holborn". Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation, The Essential Handbook of the Spoken Word (3 ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 173. ISBN 0-19-280710-2.
  7. ^ "Pronouncing British Placenames". BBC. 7 March 2007. Retrieved 21 November 2009.
  8. ^ Dretzke, Burkhard (2008). Modern British and American English pronunciation. Paderborn, Germany: Ferdinand Schöningh. p. 63. ISBN 978-3-8252-2053-2.
  9. ^ Roberts, Andrew; Matthew Teller (2004). The Rough Guide to Britain. London: Rough Guides Ltd. p. 109. ISBN 1-84353-301-4.
  10. ^ Holden, Charles; Ashworth, Mike (4 April 2010) [1933]. "London Transport — Holborn station reconstruction sketches, 1933" (Scanned image of original sketches). London Transport Album. Flickr. Archived from the original (JPG) on 21 August 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Holborn: The Secret Platforms | London Transport Museum". www.ltmuseum.co.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2024.


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