Mornington Crescent Underground Station - Hampstead Road, London, UK - The Underground on Waymarking.com

The Transport for London website (visit link) tells us about the station that is a listed building:

"London Underground station. 1907. By Leslie Green. Maroon glazed faience. 2 storeys. 2 bays to Hampstead Road and 1 bay left return. Giant arches to each bay of pilasters supporting architraved heads with keystones. Upper parts of arches treated as glazed tympana and flanked by lugged architraved sashes. Entrance to right and lifts in left hand bay. C20 shop in return bay. White band at 1st floor level. Modillion cornice and blocking course above white faience frieze bearing words "Mornington Crescent Station" on both facades.

Interior with some original features including panelled exterior lift doors, Art Nouveau decorative grilles above and indicators, lift interiors. Tiles restored and ticket-office window replaced."

Tips for using getting around in London:

Oyster Card
An Oyster Card allows you to travel on the tube network, buses and the DLR as well as some mainline train routes in London. More information can be found at the Visitor Tickets page at the Transport for London (TfL) website. The big advantages are that (a) you do not have to queue for tickets and (b) using an Oyster Card is cheaper than buying tickets. For example (June 2012) the cost of a single bus journey, if you pay cash, is £2.30 but, using an Oyster Card it is £1.35 saving almost a pound a journey.

Walking
The City of London and Central London are a lot smaller than people think and it is often quicker to walk from one place to another than the time it takes to use public transport. The iconic tube map distorts the distances between stations with the journey from Covent Garden to Leicester Square being the most famous example. Time Out magazine carried a a story about this famous route:

"Leicester Square to Covent Garden on the Piccadilly Line. It’s the shortest tube journey in town – less than 300 yards long. It’s the briefest tube journey in town – just 45 seconds from platform to platform. And it’s also the most expensive tube journey in town – four quid to travel a quarter of a kilometre. But does this deter thousands of tourists every year from making the trip? Of course not.

London Underground are worried. Tourists are irresistibly drawn to Covent Garden, teeming as it is with fashionable boutiques, silver-faced mime artists and juggling unicyclists. But Covent Garden station is 100 years old, and struggling to cope. There’s no space to install escalators, so every year 16 million people have to fight their way in and out via the lifts and stairs. A major infrastructure upgrade is long overdue."

This link to london-tubemap.com shows a map of the underground with stations shown in their correct relationship to each other and has some interesting overlays.

Is there other puplic transportation in the area?: Yes What level is the station?: Below street level

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