Piccadilly Circus (London Underground)
Piccadilly Circus is an underground station on the London Underground in the City of Westminster and is located directly below Piccadilly Circus . The station located in the Travelcard tariff zone 1 is the intersection of the Bakerloo Line and Piccadilly Line . The platforms of the former are at a depth of 21 meters, those of the latter are 31 meters deep. Entrances are at every corner of the square. In 2014, 42.93 million passengers used the station.
history
On March 10, 1906, the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (predecessor of the Bakerloo Line) opened the first section of their main line. The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (now Piccadilly Line) station followed a few months later on December 15, 1906.
The counter hall was originally located in a building designed by Leslie Green on the edge of the square. Due to the rapid increase in passenger numbers before and after the First World War , the station quickly reached its capacity limits. It was decided to build a new ticket hall including distribution level under the square , which should also serve as a pedestrian underpass. The renovation work began in February 1925 and cost the then proud amount of half a million pounds . Among other things, eleven escalators were installed.
Piccadilly Circus is now one of the few stations in central London that does not have a station building. The original building was closed on July 21, 1929 after the converted station went into operation. In the 1980s it had to give way to a new building on the corner of Piccadilly Circus and Haymarket. Because of the terrorist attacks of July 7, 2005 , the Piccadilly Line station was closed for a few weeks, and it was reopened on August 4.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ COUNTS - 2014 - annual entries & exits. (PDF, 44 kB) (No longer available online.) Transport for London, 2015, archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; accessed on December 29, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 36 ″ N , 0 ° 8 ′ 3 ″ W.