Camden Town Interchange

Most people don’t know that you can change between Camden Town and Camden Road without being charged extra for your journey

If, like us, you’re a cartographic nerd, you might have noticed that TfL have updated the tube map! The big change in December’s map is the inclusion of seven new street-level interchanges between stations, including Camden Road and Camden Town.

All of the interchanges shown meet a set of criteria that has been used to help determine their inclusion, like being located less than a 700m or a 10-minute walk apart (Camden Road to Camden Town is 400m), and where there is an easy, well-lit, signposted walking route, and where making the change opens up additional travel options.

And this is the result (phwoarrr!):

The reason we’re so pleased with the update is that most people don’t know that you can change between Camden Town and Camden Road without being charged extra for your journey, and we’ve wanted TfL to show the easy interchange between the two stations for some time.

Anything to reduce the overcrowding at Camden Town is a very good thing in our opinion.

The Camden Road to Camden Town interchange is particularly useful to show, because it opens up a number of North to East London travel options (any station on the High Barnet brand of the Northern Line to Hackney, for example).

In the future, once the Highline is built, the interchange will be even shorter (at the moment it is a 5-minute walk which crosses main roads), and isn’t accessible. But the proposed western entrance/exit to the Highline located in Camden Gardens would shorten this journey even further and remove the road crossings when the new upgraded Camden Town tube station entrance opens in Buck Street. The interchange would involve just a short walk north along Kentish Town Road.