Piccadilly Circus tube station

Piccadilly Circus is an underground station of the London Underground in the urban district of City of Westminster, located directly beneath Piccadilly Circus. Located in the Travelcard Zone 1 station is the crossing point of the Bakerloo Line and Piccadilly Line. The platforms of the former are located at a depth of 21 meters, those of the latter are 31 meters deep. Inputs are located at each corner of the square. In 2011, 40.58 million passengers used the station.

History

On 10 March 1906, the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway ( predecessor company of the Bakerloo line ) opened the first part of their regular route. The station of the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (now the Piccadilly Line) followed a few months later, on December 15, 1906.

Originally, the main hall was designed by Leslie Green in a building on the edge of the square. Due to the rapid increase in passenger numbers before and after the First World War, the station came quickly reach their capacity limits. It was decided to build under the square a new ticket hall, together with the distribution level, which should also serve as a pedestrian underpass. The renovation work began in February 1925 and cost the then proud sum of half a million pounds. Among other eleven escalators were installed.

Piccadilly Circus is today one of the few stations in central London, which have no station building. The original building was closed after start-up of the rebuilt station on 21 July 1929. In the 1980s, it had to make way for a new building on the corner of Piccadilly Circus and Haymarket. Due to the terrorist attacks of 7 July 2005, the station on the Piccadilly Line was closed for a few weeks. On 4 August 2005, the reopening took place.