Warwick Avenue tube station

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Warwick Avenue (Template:IPAc-en) is a London Underground station in Little Venice in the City of Westminster, north-west London. It is on the Bakerloo line between Maida Vale and Paddington stations, and is located in London fare zone 2.

History

Template:Maplink Warwick Avenue opened on 31 January 1915 on the Bakerloo tube's extension from Paddington to Queen's Park.<ref name=rose>Template:Cite book</ref>

The ticket hall and its ticket machines were destroyed by fire overnight on 17 September 1985, causing the station to be closed for the day.<ref name="JTTS-266-78">Template:Cite journal</ref>

Location and layout

The station is located at the junction of Warwick Avenue, Warrington Crescent and Clifton Gardens. For a time prior to its opening, the proposed name for the station was Warrington Crescent.<ref name=Name>Template:Cite book</ref>

There is no surface building and the station is accessed by two sets of steps to a sub-surface ticket hall. It was one of the first London Underground stations built specifically to use escalators rather than lifts.<ref name=escalators>The first escalator on the Underground was installed at Earl's Court in 1911. The first station built specifically for escalators was the new Central line station at Liverpool Street in 1912. All deep-tube stations built after 1913 were built with escalators – Template:Cite book</ref> A plain, utilitarian brick ventilation shaft has been built on the traffic island in the middle of the road to improve ventilation of the tunnels.

Connections

London Bus Routes 6, 46 and 187 serve the station.

A regular waterbus service runs from nearby Little Venice along the Regent's Canal; during the summer months boats depart hourly towards London Zoo and Camden Lock.