Green Park tube station
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Green Park tube station is a London Underground station located on the north side of Green Park itself, on Piccadilly close to its intersection with the pedestrian Queen's Walk. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.
The station lies between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park Corner on the Piccadilly Line, between Victoria and Oxford Circus on the Victoria Line and between Bond Street and Westminster on the Jubilee Line.
History and Structure
The station was opened on 15 December 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (GNP&BR), the precursor of the Piccadilly Line. The station was originally named Dover Street due to its location at the corner of that street and Piccadilly. When the station was rebuilt in 1933 with escalator access to the platforms, a new sub-surface ticket hall was built to the west under the roadway and new station entrances were constructed on the corner of Piccadilly and Stratton Street and on the south side of Piccadilly. The station name was changed at this time.
With the rebuilding of the station and similar works at Hyde Park Corner, the little-used Piccadilly Line station between the two at Down Street was taken out of use.
The Victoria Line platforms opened on 7 March 1969, and those for the Jubilee Line on 1 May 1979. At its opening the next station south on the Jubilee Line was Charing Cross but that station was closed when the Jubilee line was extended on a new alignment towards Westminster. When travelling south from Green Park on the Jubilee Line, Green Park Junction, where the new line diverges from the old, is visible from the train. While the old line is effectively abandoned it is still in working order although there are no longer any scheduled "rusty rail" train movements to Charing Cross.
On the 9 October 1975, terrorists belonging to the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb outside Green Park tube station, killing a 23-year old man named Graham Tuck. Similar attacks during The Troubles resulted in deaths at West Ham station in 1976 and Victoria Station in 1991.
Gallery
Transport connections
London Buses routes 8, 9, 14, 19, 22 and 38 serve the station.
External links
- [London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive]
- *[Dover Street station, 1911]
- *[Ticket office and lift lobby, 1927]
- *[New sub-surface ticket hall and Piccadilly line escalators, 1934]
- *[New station entrance on north side of Piccadilly, 1934]
- *[New station entrance and bus shelter on south side of Piccadilly, 1934]
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