Oval tube station

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Oval
Location
Place	Kennington
Local authority	Lambeth
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Transport for London
Zone	2
Annual entry/exit	4.580 million †
History
1890	Opened (C&SLR)
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
Image:Underground roundel sign at Epping.jpg Tube Portal

Image:Interior of Oval Tube Station.jpg Oval tube station in Kennington is a station on the Northern Line of the London Underground between Stockwell and Kennington stations. It is in Travelcard Zone 2. It is named after the famous Kennington Oval, for which is serves. (Journeys from National Rail stations to Oval and Kennington via Waterloo are priced as if these destinations were in Travelcard Zone 1; the add-on amounts are called substandard fares by NR.)

The station is located at the junction of Kennington Park Road (heading north-east), Camberwell New Road (south-east), Clapham Road (south west) and Harleyford Street (north west) and is about 500 metres from the Oval cricket ground. It opened on 18 December 1890 as part of the City & South London Railway. Also close by are Kennington Park and the imposing St. Marks Church. The station has cricket-themed decorations, with murals, statues and banners all celebrating the illustrious game.

The station building was rebuilt in the early 1920s when the line was modernised and has recently been refurbished at street level with a modern tiling scheme inside and out. Reflecting its proximity to the cricket ground, the internal decorative tiling features large images of cricketers in various stances.

Oval tube station was the site of one of the attempted London bombings on 21 July 2005