Chancery Lane tube station

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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, and 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 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 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 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 (see [link]).

{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 0.5em auto; text-align: center; clear: both;" |- ! Preceding station ! colspan="3" | Underground Lines ! Following station

|- style="text-align: center;" | Holborn | style="background:#df002c;" |   | Central Line | style="background:#df002c;" |   | St. Paul's

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