Piccadilly Circus tube station

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Piccadilly Circus
Location
Place	Piccadilly Circus
Local authority	Westminster
Coordinates	51°30′36.3″N, 0°8′2.4″W
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	4
Annual entry/exit	36.393 million
Transport for London
Zone	1
History
Key dates	Opened 1906
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

Piccadilly Circus tube station is the London Underground station located directly beneath Piccadilly Circus itself, with entrances at every corner. Located in Travelcard Zone 1, the station is on the Piccadilly Line between Green Park and Leicester Square and on the Bakerloo Line between Charing Cross and Oxford Circus.

[edit] History

Piccadilly Circus was opened 10 March 1906 on the Bakerloo Line; the Piccadilly Line platforms were opened on 15 December 1906. As originally built it had, like other stations, a surface booking hall (designed, like many in central London built at that time, by Leslie Green). The development of traffic before and after World War I meant that the need for improved station facilities was acute. It was decided to construct a sub-surface booking hall and circulating area, which would also provide public pedestrian subways, and work was begun to February 1925: the whole complex cost more than half-a-million pounds. Eleven escalators were provided in two flights, leading to the two Lines served by the station.

The old station building finally closed for traffic on 21 July 1929, it was demolished in the 1980s when the large building on the corner of Piccadilly Circus and Haymarket was constructed.

Inside Piccadilly Circus tube station.

[edit] The station today

It is one of the few stations which have no associated buildings above ground, the station being fully underground, although some have the booking hall there (Leicester Square and Oxford Circus being two examples).