Regent's Park is a
London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or as the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England.
The Undergro ...
station south of
Regent's Park. It is on the
Bakerloo line between
Baker Street and
Oxford Circus
Oxford Circus is a road junction connecting Oxford Street and Regent Street in the West End of London. It is also the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.
The junction opened in 1819 as part of the Regent Street development under John Nash ( ...
stations. Its access is on Marylebone Road, within
Park Crescent, in
Travelcard Zone 1, in which zone it is the second-least used station (least-used is
Lambeth North) – it saw 3.5 million entries or exits in 2015. It is west of
Great Portland Street tube station on the same arterial road.
History
The station was opened on 10 March 1906
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] by the
Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR); in the original parliamentary authority for the construction of the BS&WR no station was allowed at Regent's Park. Permission was granted to add it to the already partially constructed line in 1904.
In 1983,
London Transport proposed to close the station on the basis that the passenger lifts, which at the time were 77 years old, needed to be replaced at a cost of more than £3 million.
The proposal was dropped following a request by the
GLC for the matter to be reconsidered.
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Station design
Construction of the station ticket hall involved digging a box like void underneath the garden above. This caused significant subsidence, this is why the large metal beams in the ticket hall are present.
Unlike most of the BS&WR's other stations, Regent's Park has no surface buildings and is accessed from a subway. The station is served by lifts, and between 10 July 2006 and 14 June 2007 it was closed to allow essential refurbishment work on these and other parts of the station. There is also a staircase which can be used which has 96 steps.
Nearby points of interest are Regent's Park itself, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Physicians, Holy Trinity Church, Portland Place and Harley Street.
Great Portland Street station is within walking distance to the east for interchanges to the Circle
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, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines; however, out-of-station interchange fares do not apply and both journeys will continue to be charged separately.
Services
Regent's Park station is on the Bakerloo line between Baker Street to the north and Oxford Circus
Oxford Circus is a road junction connecting Oxford Street and Regent Street in the West End of London. It is also the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.
The junction opened in 1819 as part of the Regent Street development under John Nash ( ...
to the south. The typical service pattern in trains per hour (tph) operated during off-peak hours weekdays and all day Saturdays is:
Connections
The station is served by London Buses routes 18, 27, 30, 88, 205, 453 and night route N18.
Notes and references
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External links
London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
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