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Bond Street tube station

Bond Street London Underground
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Western entrance through West One arcade
Bond Street is located in Central London
Bond Street
Bond Street
Location of Bond Street in Central London
Location Oxford Street
Local authority City of Westminster
Managed by London Underground
Number of platforms 4
Fare zone 1
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012 Increase 38.07 million
2013 Increase 39.65 million
2014 Decrease 19.80 million
2015 Increase 37.12 million
Key dates
1900 Opened (Central line)
1979 Opened (Jubilee line)
Other information
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WGS84 51°30′50″N 0°09′00″W / 51.514°N 0.15°W / 51.514; -0.15Coordinates: 51°30′50″N 0°09′00″W / 51.514°N 0.15°W / 51.514; -0.15
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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.

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 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.


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