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Battersea Power Station is a
London Underground station in Battersea, London, and forms the
terminus of the Northern line extension to Battersea (NLE).
Partially funded by the redevelopment of Battersea Power
Station, the station serves the redevelopment site, as well as
Battersea itself. The station is located on Battersea Park Road,
close to Battersea Park railway station and a short walking
distance from Queenstown Road (Battersea) railway station. The
line and station opened on 20 September 2021. It is the only
station on the London Underground network to include the word
'station' in its name.
The station is located in Zone 1, and is served by the Northern
line as part of the extension from Kennington to serve the
redevelopment of Battersea Power Station. Trains from Battersea
Power Station only run via Charing Cross as the branch is an
extension off the Kennington loop. The station serves as the
terminus for the new branch, although provision has been made
for a possible future extension to Clapham Junction railway
station. The station also serves as an out-of-station
interchange with Battersea Park railway station.
The station was designed and built by Ferrovial Agroman Laing
O’Rourke, with station entrance architecture by Grimshaw.
Art on the Underground commissioned the artist Alexandre da
Cunha to install a permanent piece of artwork in the ticket hall
of the station: a 100-metre-long kinetic sculpture, using a
rotating billboard entitled Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset.
The station was given final approval by the Secretary of State
for Transport in November 2014, and construction began in 2015,
with completion originally scheduled for 2020. Tunnelling of the
Northern line extension began at Battersea, with the two tunnel
boring machines, Helen and Amy, departing the site in March 2017
to dig the running tunnels of the extended line.
In the draft edition of the TfL "Business Plan 2014", issued as
part of the TfL Board papers for their meeting on 10 December
2014, the map TfL's Rail Transport Network at 2021 labelled the
terminus as "Battersea Power Station", instead of just
"Battersea" as had appeared on previous publications. In
December 2015, TfL confirmed that the name of the station will
be "Battersea Power Station". This means that it is the only
station on the Underground to have the word "station" in its
official name. There has been some confusion as to whether to
construct the name as "Battersea Power (S/s)tation" or
"Battersea Power Station station".
In December 2018, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced
that the project would be delayed until September 2021 at the
earliest, "to increase the station's capacity to cope with a
higher number of passengers than originally forecast".
By June 2019, major tunnelling and track works had been
completed, with an engineering train running on the extension
for the first time. By February 2020, construction of the
station was nearly complete, with platforms, escalators and the
London Underground roundel installed on the station. The first
London Underground train ran onto the extension over the 2020
Christmas period, marking the start of the signal testing
period.
The station opened on 20 September 2021.
London Buses routes 156, 344 and 436 serve the station.
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