York Road tube station
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York Road tube station is a disused station on the London Underground. It opened on the 15th December 1906 and was one of the original stations on the Great Northern Piccadilly & Brompton Railway, now the Piccadilly Line.
It is located between King's Cross St Pancras and Caledonian Road, and had its entrance at the corner of York Road (now York Way) and Bingfield Street; the surface buildings are still clearly visible, on the left as you go south down York Way towards King's Cross.
Being so close to King's Cross it saw little use, and Sunday services were withdrawn from the 5th May 1918. The station remained open for weekday traffic until 19th September 1932 when it closed permanently.
The platform tiling was carried out by G. Woolliscroft & Sons of Hanley in Staffordshire, and was made up of white with maroon and brick red patterning. Most of the tiling has since been painted over in grey, but a small section remains untouched and can be seen at the Finsbury Park end of the former eastbound platform.
A small signalling cabin stands near this section of tiling, and was used to operate a crossover immediately to the northeast of the station. This signal box remained operative until 25th April 1964, although by this time the crossover was little used, having been largely superseded by a new crossover built at King's Cross eight years previously. However the disused cabin still stands and can be seen by observant passengers on passing trains.
Although London Underground is not yet publicly acknowledging it, it is thought to be known to insiders that they plan to reopen "York Road" as part of the major redevelopment of the area in association with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link works currently being undertaken in the King's Cross area; however it will almost certainly be renamed due to the change in the name of the adjacent main road.
External links
- York Road (http://www.pendar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Tube/YorkRoad.html) on Abandoned Tube Stations