Goodge Street tube station
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Goodge Street is a London Underground station on Tottenham Court Road. It is on the Northern Line between Tottenham Court Road and Warren Street, and is in Travelcard Zone 1. The platforms still retain the tiling pattern of the original Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway (CCEHR) company.
It was opened on 22 June 1907 as Tottenham Court Road but changed to the present name on 3 September 1908 when an interchange was built between the previously separate (and differently named) Northern Line and Central Line stations at the present Tottenham Court Road. Goodge Street station changed its name on the same date.
Goodge Street is one of the few tube stations to still rely on lifts rather than escalators to transport passengers to and from street level. In addition, it is one of the few tube stations with lifts to use the original scheme of separate exit and entrance areas.
Although the station is extremely busy at peak times, the flow is heavily one-sided. Very few people enter the station when the majority are exiting, and vice-versa, and 4 full lifts travelling in one direction, often return in the opposite direction with only 3 people between them.
It is one of eight London Underground stations which has a deep-level air-raid shelter underneath it. It was from Goodge Street station in 1944 that General Eisenhower broadcast the announcement of D-Day.