Holborn Tube Station

Well organised station that can handle lots of passengers. I visited while Tottenham Court station was closed for renovations and this station coped well with the additional traffic. As with all London tube stations they look old and dirty… What to expect if you handle so many customers.

The station is always kept very clean and there is always a member of staff around to help. It can get busy but connecting two main tube lines, you would expect this. Though the interchange does get a bit too windy and cold which is quite unpleasant.

Nothing spectacular to say about this station compared to other stations. However, it does have a massive escalator and seems a tad bit more modern than some of the other stations in zone 1 which is a rare find since everything here is old. Biggest plus is that there is good wifi here.

A nightmare station! Unfortunately it happens to be in the middle if two worse stations on the Piccadilly line: Covent garden and Russell sq, lift and stairs only stations. Holborn is packed, it’s insanity in the morning where you have to slalom through crowds of people and it’s the killer in the evening where there are so many people on the platforms that you start to worry that you may end on the rails! That’s the reason why the close the station many times each day! Upgrade the station please!!!

Crowded. It’s a clusterfuck at the bottom of the escalators, where all the crowds coming down the escalators split left (for the Central line) and right (Piccadilly line). At the same time, you have the crowds leaving the Central line and trying to connect to the Piccadilly, and vice versa. So hundreds of people trying to go six different directions at the same time? Recipe for chaos. Sometimes it’s so crowded that they restrict entry into the station, creating a big crowd outside that blocks pedestrians on the pavement.

I’ve used this particular London Underground station on quite a few occasions as it’s near a variety of places and people that I know … a pub called The Ship Tavern, a restaurant called My Old Dutch Pancake House, a CS weekly event at The Square Pig and a couple of friend’s offices.
You’ve got both the Central and Piccadilly lines located here deep under the city center.
It’s your typical station with lots of steps and hallways, people and TFL workers.
Definitely been a good meeting point with lots of people over the years.

Used to have to use this station to get to class.
As mentioned by the other solitary review, it connects the dark blue (Piccadilly) and red line (Central).
It’s a bit maze like down there with switchbacks and escalators that take you into the depths!

Where the Piccadilly Line (between Covent Garden and Russell Square) meets the Central Line (between Tottenham Court Road and Chancery Lane), you’ll find this rather deep Underground station. It is the only interchange between these two lines, so the various transfer halls get very busy and I think they switch the center escalator to better serve the traffic flow.
No step-​free access from the platforms to the street level. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.
As with all escalators on the Tube, stand right and walk left. If you stand on the left, expect someone to grumpily (and sometimes politely!) ask you to step to the side.

Handy tube line which connects to the Picadilly and Central lines. As it’s such a big interchange there is usually enough people leaving the train for you to get on even at peak times. Can get packed though and often limit number of entrances to control numbers.

As someone who lives in the area, I’ll start off by saying that the Holborn tube station is terribly convenient. With access to both Piccadilly and Central lines, I can get to almost anywhere I want to without changing lines.
But congestion can be an issue, especially since Holborn is more of a workplace area (rather than residential). It’s almost always jam-​packed in the morning, until about 10am, and in the evenings after work, until about 6pm or so.
Reliability can also be an issue. Over the past two months, I’ve been affected by 2 incidents preventing access, and I have not even been using the tube during heavy hours these days.

Holborn serves the piccadilly and central lines. Most people who get off tend to be commuting to work/​uni.
The station is quite far underground — you have to take 2 escalators from the piccadilly line, the second of which is very long! When I’m running late I’ve attempted to run up the escalators and it always makes me out of breath!
I have to get off this station when I go to uni, and it is not very ideal.
Holborn is often crowded, especially at peak times. Many a time at around 5.30−6pm I have had to stand outside the station in a queue waiting to go in to ‘reduce overcrowding on the platform’. After a long day, the last thing you want to do is stand outside in the cold to get inside the station!
Would definitely recommend getting off the stop before and walking if you can, or walking to the next station along if you find there’s a crowd outside the station — much less stressful!

holborn tube station is right in the midst of a busy street which leads tooxford circus and bank in the opposite direction, the station attracts a lot of crowd because its the main connector for the central line when you switch from the picaddily line, its pretty much in the centre of everything and sustains the culture expansiveness of students, lawyers at chancery lane or daily commuters, the escalator is daunting and to me feels the one that is the most steep of them all.

I need to have a small rant about Holborn it is the closes station for me to work and I have not used it in over a year. It must win the prize for the most inconvenient, poorly planned and uncomfortable of stations!
In London one always needs to plan the transport factor in and sometimes the closeness of a station is overridden by how long it takes to get in and out or how convenient it is. Especially in town it is often faster to walk!
Holborn is the best example its takes at least 10 minutes to get out of the station as the exits and entrances leading off the platforms are so narrow. Set in a busy office area with the Piccadilly and Central lines going through the station, it is also a busy station during weekdays.
Exit at Tottenham Court or Leicester Square and the short walk does wonders to your stress levels!

Considering I don’t actually go to places in Holborn a massive amount (or get busses when I do), it’s surprising how much I see of this station. The first reason being I quite often change here for the Piccadilly Line out to Heathrow. It’s nothing stunning really. It feels fairly deep (especially the Piccadilly), but reasonably well kept. A couple of tips: as a busy station with platform entrances near one end of the platform, it’s usually worth walking along the platform to the far end. You’ll get a better chance of a seat when it’s crowded. Also, when leaving a platform, look out for people ducking into tunnels not marked as exits and follow them. There are shortcuts at this station that will save you a bit of walking Don’t try this at rush hour though, as you will not be popular for going up the entrances the wrong way!
A second reason I know this station is that on many occasions I’ve caught a last tube here, but missed the connection for one to take me onwards. If you get chucked out of the network here, ask station staff where to get a bus. You want the 242 if going towards East London