Charing Cross tube station

Charing Cross
Entrance at Villiers Street/The Strand
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
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	18.52 million
2013	18.63 million
2014	21.30 million
2015	20.69 million
Railway companies
Original company	Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway
Key dates
10 March 1906 (1906-03-10)	BS&WR station opened as Trafalgar Square
22 June 1907 (1907-06-22)	CCE&HR station opened as Charing Cross
6 April 1914	CCE&HR station renamed Charing Cross (Strand)
9 May 1915	CCE&HR station renamed Strand
16 June 1973	Northern line service suspended
1 May 1979	Jubilee line service introduced, Northern line service resumed, interchange with Bakerloo line opened and whole station renamed Charing Cross
19 November 1999	Jubilee line service withdrawn
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°30′29″N 0°07′29″W / 51.508°N 0.12475°W / 51.508; -0.12475Coordinates: 51°30′29″N 0°07′29″W / 51.508°N 0.12475°W / 51.508; -0.12475

Charing Cross (sometimes informally abbreviated as Charing X) is a London Underground station at Charing Cross in the City of Westminster with entrances located in Trafalgar Square and The Strand. The station is served by the Northern and Bakerloo lines and provides an interchange with the National Rail network at Charing Cross station. On the Northern line it is between Embankment and Leicester Square stations on the Charing Cross branch, and on the Bakerloo line it is between Embankment and Piccadilly Circus stations. The station is in Travelcard Zone 1. The station was served by the Jubilee line between 1979 and 1999, acting as the southern terminus of the line during that period.

For most of the history of the Underground the name Charing Cross was associated not with this station but with the station now known as Embankment.

The Northern line and Bakerloo line parts of the station were originally opened as two separate stations and were combined when the now defunct Jubilee line platforms were opened. The constituent stations also underwent a number of name changes during their history.

The first part of the complex, the Bakerloo line platforms, was opened as Trafalgar Square by the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (BS&WR) on 10 March 1906. The Northern line platforms were opened a year later, as Charing Cross, by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR, now the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line) on 22 June 1907. At its opening this station was the southern terminus of the CCE&HR which ran to two northern termini at Golders Green and Highgate (now Archway) tube stations.