Location Oxford Street Managed by London Underground 2012 38.07 million Opened 24 September 1900 Owner Transport for London Architect Harry Bell Measures | Local authority Fare zone 1 2013 39.65 million Phone +44 343 222 1234 Number of platforms 4 London borough City of Westminster | |
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Address Oxford St, Mayfair, London W1R 1FE, UK Similar London Underground, Oxford Circus tube station, Green Park tube station, Marble Arch tube station, Baker Street tube station | ||
Bond Street is a London Underground and future Crossrail station on Oxford Street, near the junction with New Bond Street. Note that the street-level entrances are approximately 200 metres west of New Bond Street itself. The actual entrance to the station is inside the West One shopping arcade on the corner of Oxford Street and Davies Street.
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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.
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. The original plans for the railway included a station at Davies Street rather than Bond Street.
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. In 2007 the station underwent a major modernisation, removing the murals installed on the Central line platforms in the 1980s and replacing them with plain white tiles, in a style similar to those when the station opened in 1900.
In 1920 a possible joint venture had been considered between London Underground and the nearby Selfridges store to rebuild the station, including an entrance in Selfridge's basement, was mooted. The concept was revisited in the early 1930s, leading to a concept of a subway connecting the station to the store, with a new ticket office in the basement of Selfridge's. However, these plans did not work out, probably due to the cost of the construction.
Connections
London Buses routes 2, 6, 7, 10, 13, 23, 30, 73, 74, 82, 94, 98, 137, 139, 159, 189, 274 and 390 and night routes N2, N7, N13, N73, N98 and N207 serve the station.
Future developments
The Elizabeth line will call at Bond Street. Services are due to commence in 2018. The station is in the process of being reconstructed to accommodate the extra platforms and increased pedestrian traffic. This will include a new street level entrance on the north side of Oxford Street. The station is to become one of many newly made "step free" stations. This means that there will be lifts to provide a step free way to access the platforms. Engineers and architects undertaking work on the station include Abbey Pynford, John McAslan and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.