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Piccadilly Circus tube station
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| Piccadilly Circus | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Piccadilly Circus |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Coordinates | |
| Operations | |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Platforms in use | 4 |
| Annual entry/exit | 36.393 million |
| Transport for London | |
| Zone | 1 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1906 |
| Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail |
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Piccadilly Circus Tube station is the London Underground station located directly beneath Piccadilly Circus itself, with entrances at every corner. Located in Travelcard Zone 1, the station is on the Piccadilly Line between Green Park and Leicester Square and on the Bakerloo Line between Charing Cross and Oxford Circus.
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Piccadilly Circus was opened 10 March 1906 on the Bakerloo Line; the Piccadilly Line platforms were opened on 15 December 1906. As originally built it had, like other stations, a surface booking hall (designed, like many in central London built at that time, by Leslie Green). The development of traffic before and after World War I meant that the need for improved station facilities was acute. It was decided to construct a sub-surface booking hall and circulating area, which would also provide public pedestrian subways, and work was begun to February 1925 and completed in 1928, the architect was Charles Holden: the whole complex cost more than half-a-million pounds. Eleven escalators were provided in two flights, leading to the two Lines served by the station.
The old station building finally closed for traffic on 21 July 1929, it was demolished in the 1980s when the large building on the corner of Piccadilly Circus and Haymarket was constructed.
It is one of the few stations which have no associated buildings above ground, the station being fully underground, although some have the booking hall there (Leicester Square and Oxford Circus being two examples).
London's Transport Museum Photographic Archive:
- Original station building shortly after opening
- Sub-surface ticket hall in 1929
- 1936 poster showing cut away of underground station arrangement
 At the bottom of an entrance staircase |
 Station without many people in it |
 Inside Piccadilly Circus tube station. |
| Previous station | London Underground | Next station | ||
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| Piccadilly Line |
toward Cockfosters
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toward Harrow & Wealdstone
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Bakerloo Line |
toward Elephant & Castle
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