Bond Street tube station

Bond Street tube station is a London Underground station on Oxford Street, near the junction with New Bond Street. Note that the street-level entrances are several metres west of New Bond Street itself. The actual entrance to the station is inside the West One shopping arcade on the corner of Oxford Street and Davies Street.

The station is on the Central Line between and  and on the Jubilee Line, between  and. 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.

Transports Links
London bus route 2, 6, 7, 10, 13, 23, 30, 73, 74, 82, 94, 98, 137, 139, 159, 189, 274, 390 and Night routes N2, N7, N13, N73, N98 and N207.

Future developments
Crossrail line 1 will call at Bond Street. Services are due to commence in 2018. The station will be reconstructed to accommodate the extra platforms and increased pedestrian traffic. This will including a new street level entrance on the north side of Oxford Street.

Nearby places of interest

 * Bond Street
 * Claridge's Hotel
 * Handel House Museum, Brook Street
 * Wallace Collection, Manchester Square
 * Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Street
 * US Embassy, Grosvenor Square

Cultural references
The station and line are mentioned in the refrain to the 1969 Sweet Thursday song "Gilbert Street".