City Road is a disused London Underground station in Islington, central London. It was opened in 1901 as part of the City & South London Railway's extension from Moorgate Street to Angel. City Road was situated between Old Street and Angel. The railway is now part of the Northern line.
The station remains in 2004
The rear entrance to the remains of City Road tube station
City and South London Railway
The City and South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first successful deep-level underground "tube" railway in the world, and the first major railway to use electric traction. The railway was originally intended for cable-hauled trains, but owing to the bankruptcy of the cable contractor during construction, a system of electric traction using electric locomotives—an experimental technology at the time—was chosen instead.
City and South London Railway
A picture of a City and South London Railway train from The Illustrated London News, 1890
C&SLR locomotive number 13 at the London Transport Museum Depot in 2005
Kennington station, the only one of the original station buildings not replaced or substantially altered