64-509: Bricklayers Arms is the road intersection of the A2 and the London Inner Ring Road where Bermondsey meets Walworth and Elephant & Castle in south London . It is the junction of Tower Bridge Road , Old Kent Road , New Kent Road and Great Dover Street . It comprises a four-way green roundabout plus one-way flyover and one-way bypass lane. The latter help traffic using any of
128-415: A contract of £4,436,869 given to A. Monk Ltd of Padgate , near Warrington . The dualled section replaced a single-carriageway three-lane road. It was a dualled three-lane section, with hard shoulders (hardened verge), with four grade-separated junctions. It was to finish in the summer of 1966. Leonard Fairclough & Son constructed the bridges. The section was opened at noon on Friday 29 July 1966, with
192-579: A hidden hoard of ancient coins. After the mid-18th century building of Westminster Bridge (and associated New Kent Road ) this was where the many mid- and east-Kent, such as Dover , Maidstone and Canterbury coaches using the Old Kent Road to or from the City of London set down or picked up passengers travelling to or from the West End . The inn's landlord was always the City of London Corporation . Its sign
256-530: A large traffic intersection. The northern building provides the most direct access to the Bakerloo line, while the southern one is linked more directly to the Northern line. Access to the more northerly (Bakerloo) part of the station is via the original building, while the exit is via a new extension next to Skipton House . Between the entrance and two shops is the entrance to South London House, an office block above
320-530: A larger regeneration programme. The north end of the Old Kent Road has since the 1750s been bifurcated into Great Dover Street and Tabard Street. These briefly re-combine north of this junction and have taken the greater street's name since the roundabout was built. In the 1970s a plan of Greater London Council envisaged a road to link the roundabout and the north approach to the Blackwall Tunnel , crossing
384-581: A longer road known as Wæcelinga Stræt ('Watling Street' in modern English). Rochester Bridge was rebuilt in stone in 1391 and the 'Wardens and Commonalty of Rochester Bridge' were created to maintain the bridge, the modern equivalent of which, the Rochester Bridge Trust , still manages the current crossing. By the 17th century, the road had fallen into disrepair and sections were converted into turnpike roads by various Turnpike Acts passed by Parliament . The section between Gravesend and Rochester
448-505: A new station entrance and ticket hall facing Elephant Square , three new escalators, and lifts providing step-free access to the Northern line platforms. The new entrance would also improve the interchange between the Underground and Elephant & Castle railway station , with a more direct route through the new development. The shell of the new ticket hall will be constructed by the developer Delancey ; TfL and Southwark Council will share
512-410: A single fare for their journey. The multi-coloured platform tiles on the Northern line were reconstructed in the 1920s in conjunction with an extension to Morden station . The tiles were carefully replicated in 2006 to replace the originals, which were in poor condition. The original C&SLR tiles dating from 1890 remain on the tunnel roofs of the Northern line platforms, albeit now covered over by
576-407: Is 10tph northbound to each of High Barnet and Edgware and 20tph southbound to Morden . A large number of London Buses routes serve the station day and night, stopping outside the station at either Newington Butts (Northern line entrance) or London Road (Bakerloo line entrance). Between 1883 and 1886, a route was planned by the City and South London Railway (C&SLR), then known as
640-653: Is a London Underground station in the London Borough of Southwark in south London . It is on the Bank branch of the Northern line between Borough and Kennington stations. It is also the southern terminus of the Bakerloo line and the next station towards north is Lambeth North . The station is in both Travelcard Zones 1 and 2 . The Northern line station was opened in 1890 by the City and South London Railway (C&SLR) while
704-660: Is a major road in south-east England, connecting London with the English Channel port of Dover in Kent . This route has always been of importance as a connection between London and sea trade routes to Continental Europe . It was originally known as the Dover Road . The M2 motorway has replaced part of the A2 as the strategic route. Unlike the other single digit A-roads in Great Britain,
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#1732852709826768-464: Is centred 500 metres north-west of Mandela Way which was at the heart of the main goods and locomotive sheds named the Bricklayers Arm depots and similar . A succession of inns, the original name which may have been the documented Bricklayers Arms, served this junction for more than six hundred years. Excavations during the rebuilding of the inn in the 1890s came across very old foundations and
832-722: Is for the B255 and A296 for Bluewater , where Watling Street rejoins the A2. The A2 then bypasses Gravesend , before merging into the M2 at Three Crutches Interchange, near Strood . This latter section, from the Pepper Hill Interchange (near Northfleet and the Ebbsfleet International railway station ), to the Cobham Interchange underwent extensive works (2007–2009) to move the entire carriageway south to run parallel to
896-571: Is not easy to identify and much of the original A2 does not exactly follow what is known of the Roman route (the straightness of many long stretches is misleading). A section of the modern A2 from Rochester to the Roman settlement of Vagniacae , modern Springhead , is believed to roughly follow the Roman route. The A2 starts at Borough in Central London, at a junction with the A3 , near the church of St George
960-517: Is still under consideration. Elephant & Castle is located in the Elephant and Castle area of Newington in the London Borough of Southwark in central London . The station is in both Travelcard Zones 1 and 2 and is on the Bank branch of the Northern line between Kennington and Borough stations, and is the southern terminus of the Bakerloo line , the next station being Lambeth North . The station has two surface buildings, separated by
1024-574: The A28 meets the A2, although only westbound traffic can exit the A2 at this point. The A2050 rejoins the A2 at Bridge . Traffic for the Channel Tunnel and Folkestone leaves at the junction with the A260 , and shortly after this junction the A2 loses its dual carriageway status, regains it, and loses it again within a few miles. The A2 formerly ran through Lydden but was diverted in 1977. Now single carriageway,
1088-616: The Bishop of Rochester , David Say , who said a prayer, and George Harris, the managing director of Monk Ltd. The Rochester Way Relief Road, bypassing Kidbrooke and Eltham , was opened in 1988. The M20 motorway to Folkestone was constructed in stages from the 1960s and provided a faster route to Dover following extensions built in the early 1990s, after which traffic levels on the M2 and A2 reduced. The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge opened in 1991. A new flyover for A2 westbound to M25 northbound traffic
1152-576: The Metropolitan line , as well as financial constraints and the outbreak of the Second World War , no work was carried out on the extension. In the 1950s there was a brief revival of the plan, in which it was proposed that Elephant & Castle would not be altered and the additional turn-round capacity would be provided by making Camberwell a three-platform terminus. The project was ultimately unaffordable owing to post-war austerity, reduced demand, and
1216-621: The Post–World War I recession . It was opened by the Prince of Wales in 1924 and is now named Princes Road. It is estimated that the project provided 63,500 days work to local unemployed people. The Dartford Crossing opened as a single tunnel in 1963, then a second tunnel opened in 1980 for additional traffic on the A2, and the M2 Motorway opened in stages between 1963 and 1965 providing an alternative faster route for long-distance traffic avoiding
1280-743: The River Medway ; Dartford ( River Darent ) and Crayford ( River Cray ). The Romans paved the road and constructed the first Rochester Bridge across the Medway. Access to London was via London Bridge which was first constructed by the Romans in AD 50. The road appeared in the Antonine Itinerary , a contemporary map of Roman roads in Britain, as 'Item a Londinio ad portum Dubris'. In Anglo-Saxon times it became part of
1344-632: The Shooter's Hill Interchange with the A102 near Greenwich . A section of the Roman road has been identified running through Greenwich Park on an alignment with Vanbrugh Park. At Shooter's Hill, Watling Street and the A2 part company, as Watling Street continues along the A207 . At this point the A2 joins a dual carriageway , the Rochester Way Relief Road (the carriageways to the north of this junction being
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#17328527098261408-407: The 1960s. This Northern line ticket hall was rebuilt at the start of the 21st century, reopening on 12 December 2003 following 2 years of upgrade work. Neither the Northern line or Bakerloo line ticket halls have escalators. To get from either ticket hall to the platforms it is necessary to use the lifts or spiral stairs. The southern (Northern line) building has lifts from street level down to
1472-615: The A102 Blackwall Tunnel Approach) with a speed limit of 50 mph (80 km/h). The A2 meets traffic lights at Kidbrooke ; this is the last set of traffic lights out of Greater London (the lights only apply to traffic turning right onto the A2213). Shortly after here, the A2 crosses the A205 South Circular Road and becomes a motorway in all but name, with 3 lanes and a hard shoulder in each direction. Within
1536-569: The A2 across the River Thames was improved with the completion of Tower Bridge (1894), Blackwall Tunnel (1897) and the Rotherhithe Tunnel (1908). The road was given the reference A2 within the Great Britain road numbering scheme in the 1920s. The Dartford Southern By-pass, which relieved chronic congestion on the old route through Dartford, provided considerable local employment during
1600-506: The A2 continues east in an almost straight line, for it is still along the alignment of Watling Street at this point. At Ospringe it passes the Maison Dieu , now a museum of Roman artifacts but originally a wayside hospital commissioned by Henry III in 1234. The A2 continues to Faversham, but does not (and never has) go through the town, but almost bypasses it to the south. A mile (1.6 km) later, it arrives at Brenley Corner, junction 7 of
1664-541: The A2 does not form a zone boundary . The boundary between Zones 1 and 2 is the River Thames . The route of the current A2 follows a similar route to that of a Celtic ancient trackway . It was an important route for the Romans linking London with Canterbury and the three Channel ports of Rutupiae (now Richborough ), Dubris (now Dover) and Portus Lemanis (in modern Lympne ). It had river crossings at Rochester over
1728-726: The A2 forms the Dover bypass. It meets the A256 for Sandwich and Ramsgate at a briefly dualled section, before reverting to single carriageway for the final time. The A2 breaks through the cliffs above Dover Docks before turning 180 degrees by way of a pigtail bridge and "touching down" on land again at the entrance to the Eastern Docks, where both it and the A20 terminate. [REDACTED] Media related to A2 road (England) at Wikimedia Commons Elephant %26 Castle tube station Elephant & Castle
1792-582: The A2 reaches the junction with the A2018, the speed limit increases to the national speed limit (70 mph, 112 km/h) as the road crosses the Greater London boundary to head eastwards into Kent towards Dartford , bypassing the town to the south and cutting through Dartford Heath. The next junction links the road to the M25 London Orbital Motorway at Dartford ; the next, (Bean Interchange),
1856-453: The A2 through Rochester and Chatham. The three-lane stretch of the A2 between Falconwood and Cobham was built in stages from around 1963 until 1973. A section of Ringway 3 (part of the proposed M16 motorway linking to the A2, which later formed part of the M25 motorway opened between 1974 and 1977. The Strood to Swanscombe dualling was constructed from 1 June 1964, being seven miles, with
1920-502: The Bakerloo line station was opened sixteen years later by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR). There is an out-of-station interchange with the nearby Elephant & Castle National Rail station . A girl born at the station in 1924 was the first baby to be born on the Underground network. The Bakerloo line building remains much as originally constructed and is a typical Leslie Green structure. The Northern line building
1984-402: The Bakerloo line, with northbound trains terminating at either Queen's Park , Stonebridge Park or Harrow & Wealdstone . The typical service pattern in trains per hour (tph) is: On this line, the station is on the Bank or City branch; the next stations are Borough to the north and Kennington to the south. The typical off-peak service (as of January 2015) in trains per hour (tph)
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2048-538: The Channel Tunnel Rail Link , so as to move the road away from residential housing – and continue using four lanes in each direction, with grade separated junctions. The A2 reverts to a non-primary single carriageway road at this point. The M2 now parts company to bypass the Medway Towns , while the A2 heads into them. It enters Strood before crossing the River Medway into Rochester . The A2 bypasses
2112-507: The City of London & Southwark Subway (CL&SS), from King William Street via Elephant & Castle to Stockwell and Clapham Common . The entire route was approved on 25 July 1890 and the station opened on 18 December 1890 as part of the first successful deep-level tube railway. It ran between King William Street and Stockwell. In November 1891, the C&;SLR recognised the deficiencies of
2176-637: The London section the left hand lane is used for local traffic. At Falconwood, the road becomes the East Rochester Way ;– this point was once the westbound terminus of the dual carriageway. There are exits for Bexleyheath , Black Prince (at Bexley ), and other south east London suburbs. Motorists should be aware that the section between the Blackwall Tunnel Approach and Dartford Heath is monitored using average speed cameras . Just before
2240-507: The M2. At Brenley Corner, the A2 once again becomes a primary dual carriageway. Straight after the interchange, Dunkirk and Boughton are bypassed as the A2 continues towards Canterbury and Dover. Formerly it went through Canterbury city centre, this has now been bypassed and the original route is now called the A2050 . It breaks off from the A2 at Harbledown – just after Gate Services – taking all Canterbury traffic with it. At Wincheap,
2304-512: The Martyr . The remains of a small Roman temple was excavated at Tabard Square in 2003. The A2 at this point is named Great Dover Street, and is the only part of the A2 within the congestion charging zone . At the end of the road, it meets the London Inner Ring Road and becomes a primary route. The A2 heads along Old Kent Road towards New Cross , where the A20 breaks away. The A2 continues east through Deptford and Blackheath until it arrives at
2368-463: The Thames in two tunnels (one adjacent to Tower Bridge ) and providing a link to London Docklands . The work done made pedestrian underpasses from adjacent roads into the roundabout heart, as London Underground safeguarded a possible extension route of the Bakerloo line from its terminus at Elephant & Castle tube station . This could run along and under the main road under the route of tracks of
2432-503: The Underground station from proposed and under-construction residential development, Southwark Council has called for the expansion and redevelopment of the station, noting in 2008 that it was the "final hurdle" of a deal to redevelop the Shopping Centre. In 2018, the redevelopment of the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre was approved, with a new station entrance as part of the proposal. The upgrade and expansion work will include
2496-526: The demolished station and branch, to join surface services at South Bermondsey station . The roundabout could host a station, akin to Old Street station . Neither remains in the budgeted Bakerloo line extension to Lewisham . The circuitous subways became ugly. In 2013 these were filled in and levelled, becoming wider pavements. Since 2009, pelican crossings exist across New Kent and Old Kent Roads, as pedestrians preferring to cross at-grade were causing accidents. A2 road (Great Britain) The A2
2560-483: The disproportionately high cost of the project with a three-platform deep-level terminus and the requirement for new trains and a depot. During 2005–06, a Bakerloo extension was proposed with three route options. The options were extensions to Hayes via Peckham Rye , Beckenham Junction via Camberwell, or Hayes via New Cross . In July 2011, Network Rail recommended an extension of the Bakerloo line from Elephant & Castle to Lewisham , where it would take over
2624-442: The increase in demand if the Bakerloo line extension comes into service. An extension to Camberwell from Elephant & Castle was planned and approved in 1931. Elephant & Castle was also to be reconstructed with a third platform to provide the additional reversing capacity, along with a new ticket hall and escalators. Due to the need to prioritise the extension from Baker Street to Finchley Road , to relieve congestion on
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2688-502: The larger diameter used for the tunnels of the more recently built railways to allow larger, more modern rolling stock to be used. Together, the works proposed in these bills would enable the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR)'s trains to run over the C&SLR's route and vice versa, effectively combining the two separate railways. Tunnel enlargement works only restarted after World War I when an extension of time
2752-531: The level of the southbound Northern line platform, the only step-free platform at the station. From inside the station, the northern exit is labelled " London South Bank University " and emerges at the southern tip of the triangular campus. The southern exit is labelled "Shopping Centre" and also leads to the National Rail station where there is an out-of-station interchange, allowing Oyster card and contactless payment card users to interchange while paying
2816-427: The line to Hayes . In September 2014, Transport for London ran a consultation on the Bakerloo extension to Hayes and Beckenham Junction with options via Lewisham and Camberwell or Old Kent Road, taking over Network Rail's Hayes line. The cost of the extension is estimated at around £2–3 billion with construction expected to take place between the mid-2020s and early 2030s. A February 2017 consultation indicates that
2880-414: The new cable-management system. The station was refurbished in 2007. The original maroon and cream tiling on the Bakerloo line platforms has been covered over. Because of the arrangement of the lighting, cabling and public address loudspeakers, it was not possible to arrange the new roundels at alternate 'low' and 'high' positions, all being at the lower level. The station is the southern terminus of
2944-446: The old High Street, heading instead along Corporation Street alongside the railway lines. It crosses the old High Street, climbs Star Hill and heads east into Chatham where it meets the A230 and A231 . There used to be one way ring road but it was changed to two way running in 2006 and was partially closed to all but buses and taxis in 2009, meaning the ring road was no more. The A2 heads to
3008-517: The old road has been turned into Cyclopark , with footpaths, cycle paths and an equestrian route along the old road. A new Lower Thames Crossing down river from the Dartford Crossing linking to the A2 has been proposed by the Department for Transport in 2009. Its original alignment roughly followed a mix of the ancient Celtic route and the turnpike road to Dover. The Roman alignment, however,
3072-407: The rest of the line. On the morning of 27 November 1923, a slight misjudgement at the end of the tunnel enlargement work left the tunnel unstable near Borough. A collapse on the same day, caused when a train hit temporary shoring near Elephant & Castle, filled the tunnel with wet gravel. Later a gas main exploded, causing a water main to break and leaving a water-filled crater in the middle of
3136-538: The roundabout and flyover to replace the junction of, and some buildings at, the Old Kent Road ( A2 ), New Kent Road ( A201 ) and Tower Bridge Road ( A100 ) was given by the London County Council in December 1962 with an initial budget cost of £3,510,000 (equivalent to £95,000,000 in 2023). Works were scheduled for 1967. Such construction involved demolition of buildings in all three roads and surrounds as part of
3200-450: The section between Borough station and King William Street. A new route was chosen with a different pair of tunnels, avoiding this section. Near Borough, the new tunnels would branch off to London Bridge to form an interchange with the mainline station and then north through the City of London to Angel . The plan was approved on 24 August 1893 following a delay. The Act also incorporated another bill of 1893 to grant more time to build
3264-418: The six road bridges west of London Bridge to access the arterial road to and from the south-east quadrant of the orbital motorway , Old Kent Road. Specifically, eastbound traffic from New Kent Road to Old Kent Road can use the flyover; the reverse flow can use the ground-level bypass lane. The junction is named after a coaching inn that stood here, in turn related to the prowess of Kent in brickmaking. It
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#17328527098263328-649: The south of Gillingham , where the A289 Medway Northern Bypass joins it. The A278 departs from the A2 to head south to meet the M2, whereas the A2 goes through Rainham and Newington before entering green country for the first time since Three Crutches. The road meets the A249 , now dualled, to the west of Sittingbourne , before going through the town itself (bypassing the now-pedestrianised High Street, as it does in Rochester and Chatham). Leaving Sittingbourne,
3392-523: The southern extension to Clapham. The new route and the first section of the northern extension from Borough to Moorgate opened on 25 February 1900, and the King William Street diversion was closed. The southern extension to Clapham Common opened on 3 June 1900. Work continued on the rest of the northern extension and it opened on 17 November 1901. In 1912, the C&SLR submitted another bill to increase its capacity by enlarging its tunnels to
3456-493: The station also functions as a drivers' depot, London Underground uses the offices above the station for administration and drivers' accommodation. The C&SLR station was designed by Thomas Phillips Figgis in a similar style to Kennington station. It was partially rebuilt in the 1920s when the C&SLR tunnels were modernised, and was rebuilt during the construction of the Elephant & Castle shopping centre and roundabout in
3520-423: The station. The BS&WR station building remains much as originally constructed and is a typical Leslie Green structure. The main alteration is a modern glass-sided and glass-topped flat-roofed extension abutting the original western elevation, giving access to three of the six arches. These arches, in a classic deep-red faience style, formed the original perimeter: two are infilled with street-facing shops. As
3584-436: The street. The line was briefly split in two, but was completely closed on 28 November 1923. A girl born at the station on 13 May 1924 was the first baby to be born on the Underground network. According to initial press reports, she had been named Thelma Ursula Beatrice Eleanor (so that her initials would be T.U.B.E.) but this later proved false: her actual name was Mary Ashfield Eleanor Hammond. Her second name Ashfield
3648-486: The £15m cost of connecting the shell to the existing platforms and to "fit out" the new ticket hall with escalators and lifts. The Shopping Centre closed in September 2020, allowing construction work to begin. The new ticket hall is scheduled to open in 2028/9. The new ticket hall has been designed to accommodate the proposed Bakerloo line extension . New Bakerloo tunnels would be dug along with new platforms to accommodate
3712-547: Was approved in 1900. Construction commenced in August 1898 under the direction of Sir Benjamin Baker , W.R. Galbraith and R.F. Church with building work by Perry & Company of Tredegar Works, Bow . Test trains began running in 1905. The first section of the BS&;WR was between Baker Street and Lambeth North . The BS&WR station opened on 5 August 1906, almost five months after
3776-472: Was completed in late 2007. In 2008, a section of the A2 beside Gravesend was widened to 3 or 4 lanes between Pepperhill (a suburb of Northfleet) to Cobham. It was also rerouted away from the houses of Gravesend/Singlewell to make room for the new lanes and reduce the amount of noise and pollution from the widened roads. The old route of the A2 (the Roman road) has been made into a combined footpath and cycle path. The new road section opened in 2009. A section of
3840-458: Was designed by Thomas Phillips Figgis, and was rebuilt several times until the current structure opened in 2003. Transport for London (TfL) is currently planning a major upgrade to the station. A Bakerloo line extension south to Camberwell was planned and approved in 1931 but construction never started. Similar proposals have been revived on several occasions; in 2014 TfL ran a consultation on an extension to Hayes and Beckenham Junction , which
3904-400: Was from Lord Ashfield , chairman of the railway, who agreed to be the baby's godfather, but said that "it would not do to encourage this sort of thing as I am a busy man." The interchange between the Bakerloo and Northern lines has long been criticised by local residents for its lack of escalators, its winding passageways and its two separate station entrances. Given the increased demand on
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#17328527098263968-486: Was granted in February 1919. The Moorgate to Clapham Common section reopened on 1 December 1924, approximately eight months after the rest of the line. In November 1891, a private bill was presented to Parliament for the construction of the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR). The railway was planned to run entirely underground from Marylebone to Elephant & Castle via Baker Street and Waterloo and
4032-721: Was the coat of arms of the Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers . The road – and nearby yards – were busy with the supply of bricks to London. Major brickearth deposits, regionally, are in Kent , particularly on the North Downs dip slope and on the Hoo peninsula , sections of the Medway and Stour valleys. Its mineral content is critical to its applicability in brickmaking and requires precise proportions of chalk , clay , and iron . Approval of plans for construction of
4096-422: Was turnpiked in 1712 and that from Chatham to Canterbury in 1730; the section from there to Dover was only turnpiked in the 19th century by which time it was known as the Great Dover Road. Rochester Bridge was rebuilt in cast iron in 1856 (and rebuilt again in 1914 with a second bridge in 1970). The London, Chatham and Dover Railway completed a railway route from London to Dover in the 1860s. Access to London from
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