Oval tube station

Oval
Oval
	Entrance viewed from Kennington Park
Location	Kennington
Local authority	London Borough of Lambeth
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	2
Key dates
18 December 1890	Opened (C&SLR)
Other information
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Oval tube station in Kennington is a station on the Northern line of the London Underground between Stockwell and Kennington stations. It is the only station on the Morden branch of the Northern line whose name begins with a vowel and is one of only two stations on the London Underground with only four letters in its name (the only other being Bank). Oval station is in Travelcard Zone 2. It is named for The Oval, which it serves.

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 yards 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. Mark's 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^[when?] 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 intended site of one of the attempted London bombings on 21 July 2005.