Great Portland Street tube station

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Great Portland Street
Location
Place	Great Portland Street
Local authority	Camden
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Annual entry/exit	6.014 million
Transport for London
Zone	1
History
Key dates	Opened 1863
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail

Great Portland Street is a London Underground station near Regent's Park. It is between Baker Street and Euston Square on the Hammersmith & City, Circle and Metropolitan lines. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.

The station was part of the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, which opened between "Bishop's Road" (now Paddington Hammersmith & City Line) and "Farringdon Street" (close to the present-day Farringdon station). It was opened on 10th January 1863 as "Portland Road", and was given its present name on 1st March 1917.

Local points of interest include Regent's Park, and the Post Office Tower, which was London's tallest building when it opened in the 1960s. The station is very close to Regent's Park station, which is on the Bakerloo Line.

Preceding station	Underground Lines			Following station
Baker Street		Circle Line		Euston Square
		Hammersmith & City Line
		Metropolitan Line