Great Portland Street tube station explained

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Great Portland Street
Manager:London Underground
Locale:Great Portland Street
Borough:City of Westminster
Platforms:2
Fare Zone:1
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Coordinates:51.5238°N -0.1438°W
Map Type:Central London
Events1:Opened
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Great Portland Street station is a London Underground stop between and stations. It lies on the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines. Great Portland Street station is listed as a building of National Significance and is in Travelcard Zone 1.

History

The station was part of the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, which opened between "Bishop's Road" (now) on the Hammersmith & City line and "Farringdon Street" (close to the present-day station). It was opened on 10 January 1863 as "Portland Road", changed to its present name on 1 March 1917 but was renamed "Great Portland Street and Regents Park" in 1923 and then reverted to its present name in 1933.[1] The current structure was built in 1930 on a traffic island on the Marylebone Road at its intersection with Great Portland Street and Albany Street. Its construction is a steel framed cream terracotta clad exterior, with the perimeter providing shops and originally a car showroom with office space over the station. Great Portland Street was at a major sales location for the motor industry. It was designed by the Metropolitan Railway's architect C. W. Clark and was Grade II-listed in January 1987.[2]

The station lies at the northern end of Great Portland Street – a main road which marks the border between Marylebone and Fitzrovia.[3] [4]

The local neighbourhood plan identified the gyratory around Great Portland Street Underground Station as one where public realm improvements and traffic calming should be made.[5]

Services

The station is served by the Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and Circle lines, between Euston Square in the east and Baker Street to the west. All three lines share the same pair of tracks from Baker Street Junction to Aldgate Junction making this section of track one of the most intensely used on the London Underground network.

Circle line

The typical service in trains per hour (tph) is:[6]

Hammersmith & City line

The typical service in trains per hour (tph) is:

Metropolitan line

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:[7]

The typical peak time service in trains per hour (tph) is:

Connections

The station is served by London Buses day and night routes.

Notes and References

  1. Forgotten Stations of Greater London by J. E. Connor and B. Halford
  2. London Underground Station Heritage Board, retrieved 10 January 2013
  3. Web site: Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association . About us . 10 May 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140531180308/http://fitzrovia.org.uk/about/ . 31 May 2014 . live . 2 April 2012 .
  4. Web site: The Marylebone Association Constitution . 14 May 1996 . 10 May 2014 .
  5. Web site: PEDESTRIANISATION OF OXFORD STREET FitzWest. Fitzrovia West Neighbourhood Forum. 2017-05-06. fitzwest.org. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20180615142125/http://fitzwest.org/wordpress/uncategorized/oxford-street/. 15 June 2018. live. 2018-06-15.
  6. Web site: Circle and Hammersmith & City line WTT. Transport for London. https://web.archive.org/web/20161111061516/http://content.tfl.gov.uk/wtt-34-circle-and-hammersmith-and-city.pdf. 11 November 2016. dead.
  7. Web site: Metropolitan line WTT. Transport for London. https://web.archive.org/web/20160701094033/http://content.tfl.gov.uk/wtt-339-metropolitan.pdf. 1 July 2016. dead.