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Battersea Power Station is a London Underground station in Battersea, London, and forms the terminus of the Northern line extension to Battersea (NLE).

Battersea Power Station
Station exterior in September 2021
Battersea Power Station Location of Battersea Power Station in Greater London
Location	Battersea
Local authority	London Borough of Wandsworth
Managed by	London Underground
Owner	Transport for London
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	1
OSI	Battersea Park Queenstown Road
London Underground annual entry and exit
2017	Not opened[1]
2018	Not opened[2]
2019	Not opened[3]
2020	Not opened[4]
2021	2.18 million[5]
Key dates
20 September 2021	Opened
Other information
WGS84	51.47950°N 0.14200°W / 51.47950; -0.14200
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Partially funded by the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station,[6] the station serves the redevelopment site, as well as Battersea itself. The station is located on Battersea Park Road, close to Battersea Park railway station and a short walking distance from Queenstown Road railway station. The line and station opened on 20 September 2021.[7] It is the only station on the London Underground network to include the word 'station' in its name.[8]

Services

The station is located in Zone 1, and is served by the Northern line as part of the extension from Kennington to serve the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station. Trains from Battersea Power Station only run via Charing Cross as the branch is an extension off the Kennington loop.[9]

The station serves as the terminus for the new branch, with a crossover junction prior to the station allowing trains to terminate in either platform. Overrun tunnels underneath Battersea Dogs & Cats Home were proposed,[10] however these were omitted to save money.[11] Provision has been made for a possible future extension to Clapham Junction railway station.[12] The station also serves as an out-of-station interchange with Battersea Park railway station.[13]

Service pattern

• 8tph to High Barnet via Charing Cross (increases to 10tph in the peak)[14]
• 2tph to Mill Hill East via Charing Cross[14]

Connections

London Buses routes 156, 344 and 436 serve the station.[15] Route 211 is proposed to serve here.

Design

The station was designed and built by a joint venture between Laing O’Rourke and Ferrovial Agroman,[16][17] with station entrance architecture by Grimshaw.[18] The station design allows for future installation of platform screen doors.[19]

Art on the Underground commissioned the artist Alexandre da Cunha to install a permanent piece of artwork in the ticket hall of the station: a 100-metre-long kinetic sculpture, using a rotating billboard entitled Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset.[20][21]

History

Construction

The station was given final approval by the Secretary of State for Transport in November 2014,[22] and construction began in 2015, with completion originally scheduled for 2020.[23] Tunnelling of the Northern line extension began at Battersea, with the two tunnel boring machines, Helen and Amy, departing the site in March 2017 to dig the running tunnels of the extended line.[6]

In the draft edition of the TfL "Business Plan 2014", issued as part of the TfL Board papers for their meeting on 10 December 2014, the map TfL's Rail Transport Network at 2021 labelled the terminus as "Battersea Power Station", instead of just "Battersea" as had appeared on previous publications.[24] In December 2015, TfL confirmed that the name of the station will be "Battersea Power Station".[25] This means that it is the only station on the Underground to have the word "station" in its official name. There has been some confusion as to whether to construct the name as "Battersea Power (S/s)tation" or "Battersea Power Station station".[26]

In December 2018, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced that the project would be delayed until September 2021 at the earliest, "to increase the station's capacity to cope with a higher number of passengers than originally forecast".[27]

By June 2019, major tunnelling and track works had been completed, with an engineering train running on the extension for the first time.[28] By February 2020, construction of the station was nearly complete, with platforms, escalators and the London Underground roundel installed on the station.[29] The first London Underground train ran onto the extension over the 2020 Christmas period, marking the start of the signal testing period.[30]

Opening

The station opened on 20 September 2021.[31]

In September 2022, TfL announced that over 5 million trips had been made on the extension since opening, with an average of 80,000 trips a week at Battersea Power Station.[32] Battersea Power Station noted that demand will increase further, as the Power Station reopened as a office and retail complex in October 2022.[32] TfL estimate that demand could increase to 10 million a year by 2024/25.[33]

References

External links

• Rose, Eleanor (13 January 2018). "New images show what Battersea Power Station's glossy new tube stop will look like". Evening Standard. London. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
• Northern Line Extension from TfL

Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Nine Elms towards Edgware, Mill Hill East or High Barnet		Northern line Charing Cross Branch		Terminus

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[de] Battersea Power Station (London Underground)

Battersea Power Station ist eine unterirdische Station der London Underground. Sie befindet sich im Stadtteil Battersea im Bezirk London Borough of Wandsworth, an der Battersea Park Road in unmittelbarer Nähe des ehemaligen Kohlekraftwerks Battersea Power Station. Sie ist die Endstation der 2021 eröffneten Zweigstrecke der Northern Line, die von Kennington über Nine Elms bis hierher führt. In der Nachbarschaft stehen die Bahnhöfe Battersea Park und Queenstown Road (Battersea).

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- [en] Battersea Power Station tube station

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