Mornington Crescent tube station

Mornington Crescent
Entrance on Hampstead Road
Mornington Crescent Location of Mornington Crescent in Central London
Location	Mornington Crescent
Local authority	London Borough of Camden
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	4.55 million
2013	4.65 million
2014	4.76 million
2015	4.53 million
Key dates
22 June 1907	Opened (CCE&HR)
23 October 1992	Closed for refurbishment
27 April 1998	Reopened
Listed status
Listing grade	II
Entry number	1378713
Added to list	24 April 1987
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°32′04″N 0°08′19″W / 51.5344°N 0.1386°W / 51.5344; -0.1386Coordinates: 51°32′04″N 0°08′19″W / 51.5344°N 0.1386°W / 51.5344; -0.1386

Mornington Crescent is a London Underground station in Camden Town in north west London, named after the nearby street. The station is on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line, between Euston and Camden Town. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.

The station was opened as part of the original route of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (now the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line) on 22 June 1907. The surface building was designed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London's (UERL's) architect Leslie Green. Prior to the station's opening, the name of "Seymour Street" had been proposed. After opening, it was little used, and for many years it was open only on weekdays, and before 1966 Edgware-bound trains passed through without stopping.

The station is situated at the southern end of Camden High Street, where it meets Hampstead Road and Eversholt Street. This junction forms the north-western corner of the boundary of Somers Town, with Camden Town situated to the north and Regent's Park Estate to the south of the station.

The station's location on the Northern line is unusual due to the dual-branch nature of that line. On the Charing Cross branch, Mornington Crescent is between Camden Town and Euston. The City branch also runs from Camden Town to Euston, but via tunnels which take an entirely different route to the Charing Cross branch and which do not pass through Mornington Crescent. Although contemporary tube maps show Mornington Crescent to the west of the City branch tunnels, it is in fact to the east of them: the two branches cross over one another at Euston, so that between Euston and Camden Town, the City branch tunnels run to the west of the Charing Cross branch on which Mornington Crescent is situated. Harry Beck's 1933 tube map represented this correctly.