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Borough
	; Entrance on Borough High Street
	; Borough ; Location of Borough in Central London
Location	The Borough
Local authority	London Borough of Southwark
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Fare zone	1
LUL 2005 usage	3.158 million
LUL 2007 usage	4.138 million
LUL 2008 usage	4.14 million
1890	Opened (C&SLR)
List of stations	Underground · National Rail
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Coordinates: 51°30′04″N 0°05′35″W / 51.501°N 0.093°W / 51.501; -0.093

Borough tube station is a London Underground station in The Borough, London Borough of Southwark. It is on the Northern Line, between Elephant & Castle and London Bridge stations. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.

The station entrance is in Borough High Street (part of the A3), on the corner of Marshalsea Road. The A2 terminates opposite it.

[edit] Facility

A lift means that the station is accessible without stairs to passengers travelling northbound from the station, but there is a short flight of steps to reach the southbound platform. It is usually quicker for able-bodied passengers to take the spiral stairs than the lift.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] History

The station was opened on 18 December 1890 as part of the first deep-level tube, the City & South London Railway (C&SLR) and was rebuilt in the 1920s when the tunnels were enlarged. After many years of neglect during which it was one of the most miserable looking stations on the whole Underground system, the station has received a complete refurbishment, a project which is nearing completion.

Although little of the original station remains, Borough is the most northern of the original C&SLR stations. North of here the railway originally followed a different route than at present with the tunnels running to the original terminus at King William Street. This route was abandoned and new tunnels in the direction of London Bridge and Moorgate were constructed and opened in 1900.

The passage leading from the lower lift landing to the northbound platform was built to a larger size (to running tunnel dimensions) than passages at the other stations, as the intention was to use the lift shaft during construction (and before installation of the lift machinery and station building) for the delivery of the rolling stock.^{[citation needed]}

During the Second World War, parts of the disused tunnels to King William Street were adapted into a large public air raid shelter by Southwark Borough Council, and this is commemorated by a plaque on the side of the current building.

[edit] Gallery

Entrance on Borough High Street	View from Marshalsea Road	Architecture at the top of the station	Concrete roundel feature
Two lifts give access to the platforms	Plaque at entrance giving history

[edit] See also

Suffolk Place - 180 Borough High St across the road from the tube station is the site of a fifteenth-century mansion belonging to the Dukes of Suffolk, later given by Henry VIII to Jane Seymour and used as a mint.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c Transport for London - London Underground performance update

[edit] External links

London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive. Borough station after rebuilding, 1925.

Preceding station	London Underground	Following station
Elephant & Castle towards Morden	Northern line	London Bridge towards Edgware, Mill Hill East or High Barnet
	Former Route
Preceding station	London Underground	Following station
Elephant & Castle	Northern Line King William Street Branch (1890-1900)	King William Street

[infobox_stats_ref_tube-0] Transport for London - London Underground performance update

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