Talk:Mornington Crescent tube station

I think the 2nd last paragraph has too many brackets to read easily -- but I'm not sure how best to improve it without losing information. 80.229.160.150 21:20, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It'd be good to get a picture of how the station looked pre-closure, so we can see the work that was done during the six years it was closed. BillyH 01:29, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

The latest Belle & Sebastian album closes with a song title Mornington Crescent about the station.

The staircase at Bethnal Green Tube Station where the 1943 disaster occurred (which is still an entrance to the station at the corner of Roman Road and Cambridge Heath Road) is not a spiral staircase, and so the statement about the spiral staircase at Mornington Crescent is questionable.


 * That whole section is questionable - I can find absolutely no evidence that spiral staircases are prohibited for emergency use (in fact they are still installed for that purpose ), and even if they were disallowed in new installations, I'm sure an old Tube station would come under "grandfather rights" of some sort. And as you say, the Bethnal Green staircase is straight, not spiral. 217.155.20.163 20:47, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Removed as unsourced and because the stairs at Bethnal Green are clearly not spiral. DWaterson (talk) 12:46, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

MorninCton Crescent
Does anyone know why Mornington Crescent is spelt wrong on the side of the building in the photograph? 194.164.236.175 (talk) 22:22, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 * If you view the picture full size, it's just an odd choice of typeface. There's the small stem of a "G". --McGeddon (talk) 00:49, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Edgware line trains
Does anyone know the rationale for running Edgware line trains nonstop through Mornington Crescent, but stopping only Barnet line trains there (before 1966)?58.32.233.104 (talk) 15:23, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

I assume it is only to keep average line speeds high. But there are definitely platforms on both branches. It was until quite recently that trains served both branches. 86.167.216.17 (talk) 16:07, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

There's only one northbound and one southbound platform. The Edgware and High Barnet lines don't split until the Camden Town junction. There were originally a number of Northern Line stations where some trains were non-stopping because not many people used those stations. Oddly enough Camden Town, now very busy, was one of them. Fairly soon, though, every train stopped at every station on its route -- except Mornington Crescent, because it was still so little used. It was only felt to need half as many trains, so Edgware trains went straight through. By 1966 the area wasn't quite as run-down and there was enough demand for all the trains to stop there, but not all the time. No trains stopped after 21:00 or at weekends. This continued up to the 1990s closure. After the reopening in 1998, the station soon became an important overspill for Camden Town, especially at weekends, so it finally got a full seven-day service. Khamba Tendal (talk) 11:49, 2 September 2016 (UTC)


 * This is wrong I'm afraid. The central sections of the Northern line were built as two separate and unconnected underground lines. Northern line trains running via Bank do not run non-stop through Mornington Crescent, they do not actually pass through the station at all. There are two pairs of tunnels between Euston and Camden Town. The first tunnels were built by the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR) and opened in 1907. They run from Warren Street, through Euston and Mornington Crescent to Camden Town where the route divides for the two northern branches. The other pair of tunnels was opened in 1924 when the tunnels of the City and South London Railway were extended from Euston to Camden Town. These take a different alignment to the CCE&HR tunnels and do not pass near to or have platforms at Mornington Crescent station. This is why there are two separate sets of Northern line platforms at Euston. For more detail, see the history section of Euston tube station. --DavidCane (talk) 09:56, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

I think you misunderstood the point. The Bank branch does not go through Mornington Crescent, of course. The station only exists on the Charing Cross branch. But for many decades Edgware trains on the Charing Cross branch passed through Mornington Crescent without stopping. This was because the station was not considered busy enough to require a full service. This confusing rule, together with the station's late-evening and weekend closure, made Mornington Crescent comically mysterious -- it existed, except half the time it didn't -- which may have something to do with the naming of the perplexing imaginary game after the station. Khamba Tendal (talk) 14:08, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Closed 5 June - 2 July 1924
Is it worth mentioning, that the station was closed between June 5th and July 2nd, 1924? See here in the paragraph next to the "Castle Road" picture. -- Metrophil44 (talk) 16:55, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Fireproof tiles?
The original tiling pattern was restored taking into account modern fire safety requirements? Undoubtedly the tiles have been restored and there have been new safety requirements, but the tiles are probably not one of them.92.200.233.191 (talk) 23:14, 29 November 2021 (UTC)