Belsize Park tube station
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Belsize Park (Template:IPAc-en) is a London Underground station in Belsize Park, north-west London. It is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line between Hampstead and Chalk Farm stations, and is located in London fare zone 2. It stands at the northern end of Haverstock Hill. In July 2011 it became a Grade II listed building.<ref name="eh_16">Template:Cite web</ref>
The Royal Free Hospital is located a short distance to the north of the station.
History
The station was opened on 22 June 1907 by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway as an intermediate station on its line from Template:LUS to Template:LUS. It is served by three lifts which descend Template:Convert to the platforms. The platforms can also be reached by stairs. The sign at the top of the stairs lists the total step count between train and platform level of 209, while the sign at the bottom only mentions 189, the remaining 20 being between the bottom landing of the lifts and the platforms.<ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref>
The station was designed by Leslie Green in "Modern Style" and has his familiar facade of ox-blood faience with five round arched windows.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It remained largely untouched until the late 1980s when the lifts were replaced and a new ticketing system installed.
It was previously the site of the Trewint Industrial Home for Girls.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Deep-level air-raid shelter
Belsize Park is one of eight London Underground stations which have deep-level air-raid shelters underneath them.<ref name="Emmerson">Template:Cite book</ref> The shelter was constructed in World War II to provide safe accommodation for service personnel. Entrances to the shelter are at the junction of Haverstock Hill and Downside Crescent and off Haverstock Hill.Template:Citation needed Template:Clear left
Connections
London Buses routes 168 and C11 and night route N5 serve the station.
In popular culture
The staircase at Belsize Park tube station is the scene of the eponymous homicide in Mavis Doriel Hay's 1934 murder mystery novel Murder Underground.<ref name="murderunderground">Template:Cite book</ref> The station also appears in the Coldplay pop video for the song "Paradise".Template:Citation needed
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- Northern line stations
- Tube stations in the London Borough of Camden
- Former Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway stations
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1907
- Belsize Park
- Leslie Green railway stations
- London Underground Night Tube stations
- 1907 establishments in England
- Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Camden
- Grade II listed railway stations