Angel is a London Underground station in the Angel area of the London Borough of Islington. It is on the Bank branch of the Northern line, between King's Cross St. Pancras and Old Street stations, in Travelcard Zone 1. The station was originally built by the City & South London Railway (C&SLR) and opened on 17 November 1901. The station served as a terminus until the line was extended to Euston on 12 May 1907.
Entrance of the post-1992 Angel station on Islington High Street. The building above has since been demolished.
The island platform before rebuilding
The extra-wide southbound platform occupies the whole of the original station tunnel
The original surface building of Angel station in Torrens Street
The Angel is an area on the northern fringes of Central London within the London Borough of Islington. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) north-northeast of Charing Cross on the Inner Ring Road at a busy transport intersection. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in London. It is a significant commercial and retail centre, and a business improvement district. The Angel straddles the ancient boundary of the parishes of Clerkenwell and Islington that later became the metropolitan boroughs of Finsbury and Islington. It is named from the former Angel Inn which stood on the corner of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road. Since 1965 the whole area has formed part of the London Borough of Islington in Greater London.
Angel Wings sculpture by Wolfgang and Heron with Price & Myers
Angel Central shopping centre
City Road's 2017 annual average Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) concentration was 48 μg/m-3 (micrograms per cubic metre), which fails to meet the UK national air quality objectives.
Image: Angel station southbound look north