Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway

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The Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR), was a deep-level "tube" railway constructed in London by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited. Today, the core part of the line forms the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line of the London Underground network.

Planned in 1892 as a line to connect Hampstead High Street with the southern end of Charing Cross Road, with a spur from Euston Road to serve the mailine stations of Kings Cross and St Pancras, Royal Assent was granted for the main route in 1893 but withheld for the spur. At this time the only stations were to have been at Charing Cross, Oxford Street, Euston Road, Seymour Terrace,Chalk Farm, Belsize Park and Hampstead.

With further bills presented to Parliament to extend the route to Charing Cross itself, and to Golders Green and Highgate in the north, the line opened on 22 June 1907 as The Hampstead Tube with the following stations:

Stations at opening

Charing Cross
Leicester Square
Oxford Street (renamed Tottenham Court Road in 1908)
Tottenham Court Road (renamed Goodge Street in 1908)
Euston Road (renamed Warren Street in 1908)
Euston
Mornington Crescent (planned name was Seymour Terrace)
Camden Town

Golder's Green branch

Highgate branch

In 1926 the line merged with the separate City & South London Railway (C&SLR), the first deep-level tube railway in the world, and became known as the Morden – Edgware Line. Following a series of extension projects in the early 1920s the lines were physically connected and was renamed the Northern Line in 1937 to reflect the addional extensions (to Edgware and Barnet) being built at the northern end.

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[A station on the Hampstead Tube]

Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway

Stations at opening

Golder's Green branch

Highgate branch

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