Bond Street tube station

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Bond Street
Location
Place	Oxford Street
Local authority	Westminster
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	4
Transport for London
Zone	1
2005 annual usage	29.57 million †
2007 annual usage	36.696 million †
History
1900 1979	Opened (Central line) Opened (Jubilee line)
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Bond Street tube station is a London Underground station on Oxford Street, near the junction with New Bond Street. The entrance to the station is inside a shopping arcade on Oxford Street.

The station is on the Central Line between Marble Arch and Oxford Circus and on the Jubilee Line, between Baker Street and Green Park. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.

Contents 1 History 2 Future developments 3 Nearby places of interest 4 Cultural references 5 External links

[edit] History

The station was first opened on 24 September 1900 by the Central London Railway, three months after the first stations on the Central Line opened. The surface building was designed, in common with all original CLR stations, by the architect Harry Bell Measures.

In 1909, Harry Selfridge proposed a subway link to his new Selfridges store to the west. Contemporary opposition quashed the idea.

The station has seen several major reconstructions. The first, which saw the original lifts replaced by escalators, a new sub-surface ticket hall and a new façade to the station, designed by the architect Charles Holden, came into use on 8 June 1926. This was demolished with the construction of the "West One" shopping arcade in the 1980s, a period that had also seen the Jubilee Line services to this station commence on 1 May 1979. Some slight elements of the original facade do survive above the eastern entrance to the station.

[edit] Future developments

It is proposed that Crossrail line 1 will call at Bond Street.

[edit] Nearby places of interest

• Bond Street
• Claridge's Hotel
• Handel House Museum, Brook Street
• Wallace Collection, Manchester Square
• Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Street
• US Embassy, Grosvenor Square

[edit] Cultural references

The station and line are mentioned in the refrain to the 1969 Sweet Thursday song "Gilbert Street".

[edit] External links

• London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
  • Central London Railway station entrance about 1910
  • New station façade by Charles Holden, 1927
  • Ticket hall prior to reconstruction of the station for Jubilee Line, 1973
  • Entrance to station and West One shopping Centre, 2001

• Bond Street tube station is at coordinates 51°30′50″N 0°09′00″W / 51.514, -0.15 (Bond Street tube station)Coordinates: 51°30′50″N 0°09′00″W / 51.514, -0.15 (Bond Street tube station)

Preceding station		London Underground		Following station
Marble Arch towards Ealing Broadway or West Ruislip		Central line		Oxford Circus towards Epping, Hainault or Woodford via Hainault
Baker Street towards Stanmore		Jubilee line		Green Park towards Stratford

Future Development

Preceding station		Crossrail		Following station
Paddington toward Maidenhead or Heathrow Airport		Crossrail		Tottenham Court Road toward Abbey Wood or Shenfield