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Location Profile: CHANCERY LANE |
One of the Central London stations that until fairly recently had restricted opening at weekends (and judging by the almost non existent passengers around on this Saturday afternoon, I can see why) Chancery Lane is most famously associated with the Legal and Law industry.
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Chancery Lane itself runs south from High Holborn (seen here on
the left looking towards Holborn itself) down to Fleet Street and the Law Courts. General rule of thumb is if someone travelling on the Central Line looks like a lawyer, this is where they are going! |
| Chancery Lane also marks the western most border on High Holborn
of the City of London and this is marked by two pillars, one either side of the road atop
of which are the griffins from the City coat of arms. This is looking east past the guardian on its pillar in the direction of Holborn Viaduct. |
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| Chancery Lane Station itself is on the Central Line
between Holborn and St Paul's. The entrances sunk into the pavement are in fact some distance to the east of Chancery Lane itself and replaced the original station building when escalators where installed. |
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Below ground, all is not quite what it seems as when you reach the
bottom of the first set of escalators from the ticket hall, you can turn left for the
eastbound Central Line towards Bank. However if you want the westbound towards Holborn, you need to continue on down a second short set of escalators (seen left) as the platforms here lie one on top of the other, a feature also found at the next station eastwards, St Paul's. |
| The platforms serving the Central Line (that shown on the right being the westbound one) are fairly standard white tiled tube profile tunnels, little changed really from when they were built almost a hundred years ago. |  |