Bond Street tube station

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Bond Street is a London Underground and future Elizabeth line station on Oxford Street, near the junction with New Bond 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.

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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.

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. 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.

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 facade was later demolished, being replaced by the "West One" shopping arcade as part of the construction of the Jubilee line, which opened on 1 May 1979. In 2007 the station underwent a visual 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.

Station expansion and modernisation

The most recent expansion of the station opened in November 2017, in preparation for the arrival of Elizabeth line in 2018. This £300m upgrade increased the capacity of the station by over 30 percent, added a new entrance to the station on Marylebone Lane on the north side of Oxford Street, and installed lifts to make the station step free.

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In popular culture

The westbound Central Line platform features on the cover for "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight", a 1978 song by The Jam about late-night violence on the Tube in the 1970s.

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Connections

London Buses routes 2, 6, 7, 10, 13, 23, 30, 73, 74, 94, 98, 137, 139, 159, 189, 274 and 390 and night routes N2, N7, N73, N98 and N207 serve the station.

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Future developments

The Elizabeth Line will call at Bond Street when services commence in December 2018, Crossrail is constructing two new ticket halls - at Davies Street and Hanover Square. Engineers and architects undertaking work on the station include Abbey Pynford, John McAslan and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.

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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

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Gallery

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References

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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

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