Bond Street tube station
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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. 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.
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.
It is proposed that Crossrail line 1 will call at Bond Street.
The station and line are mentioned in the refrain to the 1969 Sweet Thursday song "Gilbert Street".
The station is a useful way of getting the world famous shopping district of Mayfair, specifically Bond Street and the western end of Oxford Street. Other local places of interest include Claridge's Hotel and Handel House Museum. The station was also to have been, in 1909, the site of a proposed subway to link into the then new Selfridges store. Contemporary opposition quashed the idea.
External links
- [London's 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]
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