Charing Cross tube station

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
2018	19.49 million[2]
2019	19.48 million[3]
2020	3.40 million[4]
2021	7.15 million[5]
2022	13.66 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	TfL station info page
Coordinates	51°30′29″N 0°7′29″W / 51.50806°N 0.12472°W / 51.50806; -0.12472
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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 it 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 2022, Charing Cross is the 38th busiest station on the London Underground with 13.66 million passengers using it per year.^[5]