Charing Cross  | |
|---|---|
 Entrance at Strand/Duncannon Street | |
  Charing Cross Location of Charing Cross in Central London | |
| Location | Charing Cross |
| Local authority | City of Westminster |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Owner | London Underground |
| Number of platforms | 6 (4 in use) |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| OSI | Charing Cross  [1] |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2019 |  19.48 million[2] |
| 2020 | 3.40 million[3] |
| 2021 |  7.15 million[4] |
| 2022 | 13.66 million[5] |
| 2023 | 14.48 million[6] |
| Railway companies | |
| Original company | Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 10 March 1906 | Opened (BS&WR) |
| 22 June 1907 | Opened (CCE&HR) |
| 6 April 1914 | Extended (CCE&HR) |
| 16 June 1973 | Closed (Northern line) |
| 1 May 1979 | Opened (Jubilee line) Reopened (Northern line) |
| 19 November 1999 | Closed Permanently (Jubilee line) |
| Other information | |
| External links | |
| Coordinates | 51°30′29″N 0°7′29″W / 51.50806°N 0.12472°W |
 London transport portal | |
Charing Cross (sometimes informally abbreviated as Charing +, Charing X, CHX or CH+) is a London Underground station at Charing Cross in the City of Westminster. The station is served by the Bakerloo and Northern lines and provides an interchange with Charing Cross mainline station. On the Bakerloo line, the station is between Piccadilly Circus and Embankment stations, and on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line, it is between Leicester Square and Embankment stations. The station is in fare zone 1.
Charing Cross was originally two separate stations, known for most of their existence as Trafalgar Square (on the Bakerloo line) and Strand (on the Northern line). The Bakerloo line platforms were opened by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway in 1906 and the Northern line platforms by the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway in 1907. In the 1970s, in preparation for the opening of the Jubilee line, the two earlier stations were connected together with new below ground passageways. When the Jubilee line platforms opened in 1979, the combined station was given the current name. Jubilee line services ended in 1999 when the line was extended to Stratford.
The station has entrances in Trafalgar Square, Strand, Villiers Street, Adelaide Street, William IV Street and in the mainline station. It is close to the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, Admiralty Arch, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Canada House, South Africa House, the Savoy Hotel, The Mall, Northumberland Avenue and Whitehall.
As of 2023, Charing Cross is the 37th busiest station on the London Underground with 14.48 million passengers using it per year.[4]
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