Location
Place	The Angel, Islington
Local authority	Islington
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Transport for London
Zone	1
2005 annual usage	14. The Angel was originally an Inn near a Toll gate on the Great North Road (at what is now the corner of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road The London Borough of Islington ( is a London borough in North and Inner London. The London Underground is a Metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire Travelcard Zone 1 is the central zone of Transport for London 's zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London 03 million †
2007 annual usage	16. 626 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1901
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Angel tube station is a London Underground station in The Angel, Islington. Transport for London ( TfL) is the local government body responsible for most aspects of the Transport system in Greater London in England. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This is a list of London Underground stations. Scope This list by their present names of Heavy rail passenger stations in the Greater London region excludes stations served only by the London Underground The London Underground is a Metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire The Angel was originally an Inn near a Toll gate on the Great North Road (at what is now the corner of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road Islington is the central district of the London Borough of Islington. It is on the Bank branch of the Northern Line, between Old Street and King's Cross St. Pancras stations. For the station called Monument on the Tyne and Wear Metro, see Monument Metro station The Northern line is a deep-level tube line on the London Underground, coloured black on the Tube map. Old Street station is a London Underground and National Rail station located at the junction of Old Street and City Road just north of the King's Cross St Pancras is a tube station in the London Borough of Camden, on the London Underground network serving both King's Cross and St It is in Travelcard Zone 1. Travelcard Zone 1 is the central zone of Transport for London 's zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London

Angel station was originally built by the City & South London Railway, and opened in 1901 as the northern terminus of a new extension from Moorgate. Moorgate station is a London Underground and National Rail station in the City of London, on Moorgate, north of London Wall. It is one of five stations on the London Underground named after a public house - in this case the once-famous Angel inn, which dates back to at least 1638. The London Underground is a Metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire As with many other stations on the line, it was originally built with a single central island platform serving two tracks – an arrangement still seen at Clapham North and Clapham Common – and access from street level was via lifts. Clapham North tube station is a London Underground station in Clapham. Clapham Common tube station is a station on London Underground 's Northern Line. An elevator or lift is a Transport device used to move people or goods vertically from one floor to another The most recent lifts were of the Otis "drum hoist" design used throughout the rest of the tube system, but were of about half the size. The Otis Elevator Company is the world's largest manufacturer of vertical transportation systems today principally Elevators and Escalators Founded in Yonkers For years, the station regularly suffered from congestion and overcrowding which, especially with the island platform, constituted a major safety issue. Consequently, the station was comprehensively rebuilt, re-opening in 1992.

The unusually wide southbound platform tunnel originally occupied by tracks in both directions

A new section of tunnel was excavated for a new northbound platform and the southbound platform was rebuilt to completely occupy the original 30-foot tunnel, explaining why it is larger than most deep-level platforms. The lifts and the ground level building originally on the corner of Torrens Street and City Road were closed and a new station entrance was opened around the corner in Islington High Street. Often referred to by Londoners as " The City Road" the western extremity of the road is at The Angel Islington where it forms a continuation of Pentonville Road Because of the distance of the new entrance from the platforms, and their depth, two flights of escalators were required aligned approximately at a right-angle. An escalator is a Conveyor transport device for transporting people consisting of individual linked steps that move up or down on tracks which keep the treads In Geometry and Trigonometry, an angle (in full plane angle) is the figure formed by two rays sharing a common Endpoint, called These include the longest escalators in Western Europe, with a vertical rise of 27. Western Europe at its most general meaning means 'all the countries in the West of Europe ' 4 m (90 ft) and a length of 60 m (197 ft).

Between Angel and Old Street stations is the disused tube station City Road. There are several dozen City Road on the London Underground is a disused tube station.

Future

Angel is a proposed station on the Chelsea-Hackney line project. The Chelsea-Hackney (or "Chelney" line is a safeguarded route for an Underground railway running from south-west London to north-east London It would be between King's Cross St Pancras and Essex Road. King's Cross St Pancras is a tube station in the London Borough of Camden, on the London Underground network serving both King's Cross and St Essex Road railway station is a National Rail station in Islington. It was officially safeguarded as part of the route in 2007. ^{[1] [2]} this would therefore provide an interchange between the two London Underground lines.

Trivia

• Angel station is the subject of 40 minutes: Heart of The Angel, an award-winning 1989 BBC "40 minutes" documentary, by Molly Dineen. It shows the troubled life of the station a few years before the 1992 rebuilding, including the platform overcrowding and the lifts regularly breaking down.
• Angel station is one of the most popular stations in terms of merchandising.
• In March 2007, an unidentified man posted a video on YouTube of himself skiing down the escalator (reportedly sometime in 2006), an action condemned by the Metropolitan Police and London Underground officials ^{[3] [4]}. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees A ski is a long flat device worn on the feet designed to help the wearer slide smoothly over snow "Metropolitan Police" redirects here See also Metropolitan police. The London Underground is a Metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire
• The station contains the longest escalators in western Europe.

External links

• London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Original Angel station building
  • Station with new façade in 1924
  • Station entrance, 1988
  • The original island platform with tracks each side, 1988

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
King's Cross St Pancras towards Edgware, Mill Hill East or High Barnet		Northern line		Old Street towards Morden
		Proposed [5]
Kings Cross St Pancras		Chelsea-Hackney line Crossrail 2		Essex Road

References

1. ^ http://www.islington.gov.uk/Environment/Planning/MajorSchemes/Railway/457.asp
2. ^ http://www.crossrail.co.uk/80256B090053AF4C/Files/chelsea-hackneyline/$FILE/chelsea+hackney+line+safeguarding+leaflet+february+2008.pdf
3. ^ BBC News article on escalator skiiing incident
4. ^ The YouTube Video
5. ^ http://www.dft.gov.uk/consultations/closed/consulchelhackney/pdfdraftdirectsafe