Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 15, 2015

Angel is a London Underground station in Angel of the London Borough of Islington. It is on the Bank branch of the Northern line, between Old Street and King's Cross St. Pancras stations, in Travelcard Zone 1. The station was originally built by the City & South London Railway (C&SLR) and opened on 17 November 1901. The station served as a terminus until the line was extended to Euston on 12 May 1907. The station was rebuilt in the early 1990s to accommodate the large number of passengers using the station. This made the station to have an extra-wide southbound platform, the longest escalators on the Underground network and the fourth longest escalators in Western Europe. It is also a proposed station on the Crossrail 2 (Chelsea-Hackney line) project.