'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.
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.
In
1909,
Harry Selfridge proposed a subway link to his new
Selfridges store to the west. Contemporary opposition quashed the idea.
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.
Future developments
It is proposed that
Crossrail line 1 will call at Bond Street.
Nearby places of interest
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Bond Street
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Claridge's Hotel
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Handel House Museum,
Brook Street
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Wallace Collection,
Manchester Square
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Wigmore Hall,
Wigmore Street
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US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square

Davies Street near Bond Street tube station
Cultural references
The station and line are mentioned in the refrain to the 1969
Sweet Thursday song "Gilbert Street".
External links
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London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive
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