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Chancery Lane is a London Underground
London Underground

The London Underground is a metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the UK....
 station in central London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. It is on the Central Line
Central Line

The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and has the greatest total length of track of any line on the Underground....
 between St. Paul's
St. Paul's tube station

St Paul's is a London Underground station in the City of London on the Central Line, between Bank and Monument stations and Chancery Lane tube station stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 1....
 and Holborn
Holborn tube station

Holborn is a station of the London Underground in Holborn in London, located at the junction of High Holborn and Kingsway . It is on the Piccadilly Line between Covent Garden tube station and Russell Square tube station, and on the Central Line between Tottenham Court Road tube station and Chancery Lane tube station....
 stations. The station is located at the junction of High Holborn
High Holborn

High Holborn is a road in Holborn in central London, England. It starts in the west near St Giles' Circus, then goes east, past Bloomsbury Street, the Kingsway and Southampton Row, and continues east....
, Hatton Garden
Hatton Garden

Hatton Garden is a street and area near Holborn in London, England. Its name is derived from the garden of the Bishop of Ely, which was given to Sir Christopher Hatton by Elizabeth I of England in 1581, during a vacancy of the see....
 and Gray's Inn Road
Gray's Inn Road

Gray's Inn Road is a major road in central London, in the London Borough of Camden. It is named after Gray's Inn, one of the main Inns of Court....
 with subway
Subway (underpass)

In the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries , the term subway normally refers to a specially constructed underpass for pedestrians and/or cyclists beneath a road or railway, allowing them to reach the other side in safety....
 entrances giving access to the ticket office under the roadway. It is in Travelcard Zone 1
Travelcard Zone 1

Travelcard Zone 1 is the central zone of Transport for London's zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London....
.

station was opened by the Central London Railway
Central Line

The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and has the greatest total length of track of any line on the Underground....
 (CLR) on 30 July 1900.. The current station entrance is not the original. The original, disused station building is on the north side of High Holborn at nos.






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Chancery Lane is a London Underground
London Underground

The London Underground is a metro system serving a large part of Greater London and neighbouring areas of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the UK....
 station in central London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. It is on the Central Line
Central Line

The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and has the greatest total length of track of any line on the Underground....
 between St. Paul's
St. Paul's tube station

St Paul's is a London Underground station in the City of London on the Central Line, between Bank and Monument stations and Chancery Lane tube station stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 1....
 and Holborn
Holborn tube station

Holborn is a station of the London Underground in Holborn in London, located at the junction of High Holborn and Kingsway . It is on the Piccadilly Line between Covent Garden tube station and Russell Square tube station, and on the Central Line between Tottenham Court Road tube station and Chancery Lane tube station....
 stations. The station is located at the junction of High Holborn
High Holborn

High Holborn is a road in Holborn in central London, England. It starts in the west near St Giles' Circus, then goes east, past Bloomsbury Street, the Kingsway and Southampton Row, and continues east....
, Hatton Garden
Hatton Garden

Hatton Garden is a street and area near Holborn in London, England. Its name is derived from the garden of the Bishop of Ely, which was given to Sir Christopher Hatton by Elizabeth I of England in 1581, during a vacancy of the see....
 and Gray's Inn Road
Gray's Inn Road

Gray's Inn Road is a major road in central London, in the London Borough of Camden. It is named after Gray's Inn, one of the main Inns of Court....
 with subway
Subway (underpass)

In the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries , the term subway normally refers to a specially constructed underpass for pedestrians and/or cyclists beneath a road or railway, allowing them to reach the other side in safety....
 entrances giving access to the ticket office under the roadway. It is in Travelcard Zone 1
Travelcard Zone 1

Travelcard Zone 1 is the central zone of Transport for London's zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London....
.

History

The station was opened by the Central London Railway
Central Line

The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and has the greatest total length of track of any line on the Underground....
 (CLR) on 30 July 1900.. The current station entrance is not the original. The original, disused station building is on the north side of High Holborn at nos. 31-33, approximately to the west, closer to High Holborn's junction with Chancery Lane. Originally, provided with four lifts
Elevator

An elevator or lift is a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building. They are generally powered by electric motors that either drive traction cables and counterweight systems, or pump hydraulic fluid to raise a cylindrical piston....
 between ground and platform levels, the station was rebuilt in the early 1930s to operate with escalator
Escalator

An escalator is a conveyor transport device for transport people, consisting of individual, linked steps that move up or down on tracks, which keep the treads horizontal....
s. It was not possible to construct the inclined escalator shaft between the platforms and the existing entrance and so a new sub-surface ticket hall was constructed below the road junction. The new station entrance came into use on 25 June 1934. The old entrance building became redundant and, in recognition of the location of the new entrance, the station was renamed Chancery Lane (Gray's Inn
Gray's Inn

The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England to which barristers belong and where they are called to the bar....
), although the suffix subsequently fell out of use.

When the CLR excavated the running tunnels it routed them to avoid passing under surface buildings in order to limit the risk to surface buildings from vibration. At Chancery Lane, the tunnels are placed with the eastbound tunnel above the westbound.

It is one of eight London Underground stations which has a deep-level air-raid shelter
London deep-level shelters

The London deep-level shelters are eight deep-level air-raid shelters that were built under London Underground stations during World War II. Each consists of a pair of parallel tunnels 16 feet 6 inches in diameter and 12,000 feet long....
 underneath it. After World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 this was turned into Kingsway telephone exchange
Kingsway telephone exchange

Kingsway telephone exchange was a Cold War-era hardened telephone exchange underneath High Holborn in London....
. Access to the shelter was via the original station building and lift shaft as well as subsidiary entrances in Furnival Street and Took's Court.

It is also home to the shortest escalator on the Tube network.

Notable events

On 25 January 2003, a train derailed at Chancery Lane, injuring 32 passengers, after a motor became detached from the train. The entire Central Line
Central Line

The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and has the greatest total length of track of any line on the Underground....
 and the Waterloo & City Line
Waterloo & City Line

The Waterloo & City line is a short underground railway line in London, which formally opened on 11 July 1898. It has only two stations, London Waterloo station and Bank and Monument stations ....
 (which also uses 1992 Stock
London Underground 1992 Stock

The 1992 Tube Stock was built by ABB Asea Brown Boveri for the Central Line as the result of the extensive testing of the three London Underground 1986 Stock prototype trains....
 trains) were closed whilst the cause of the failure was determined and appropriate modifications made to the trains.

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