Regent's Park tube station

For the railway station in Sydney, Australia, see Regents Park railway station.

Regent's Park London Underground
Regent's Park station tube platform
Regent's Park is located in Central London
Regent's Park
Regent's Park
Location of Regent's Park in Central London
LocationMarylebone
Local authorityCity of Westminster
Managed byLondon Underground
Number of platforms2
Fare zone1
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019Increase 3.87 million[1]
2020Decrease 1.63 million[2]
2021Decrease 1.27 million[3]
2022Increase 2.15 million[4]
2023Increase 2.30 million[5]
Railway companies
Original companyBaker Street and Waterloo Railway
Key dates
10 March 1906Station opened
Other information
External links
Coordinates51°31′25″N 0°08′47″W / 51.5235°N 0.1464°W / 51.5235; -0.1464
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Regent's Park is a London Underground station 175 metres (191 yd) south of Regent's Park. It is on the Bakerloo line between Baker Street and Oxford Circus 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 190 metres (210 yd) west of Great Portland Street tube station on the same arterial road.

History

Map
Location of Regent's Park station

The station was opened on 10 March 1906[6] 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.[7] 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.[8] The proposal was dropped following a request by the GLC for the matter to be reconsidered.[8]

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.[citation needed]

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, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines; however, out-of-station interchange fares do not apply and both journeys will continue to be charged separately.

Services

The typical service pattern in trains per hour (tph) operated during off-peak hours weekdays and all day Saturdays is:[9]

  • 6tph to Harrow & Wealdstone via Queen's Park and Stonebridge Park (Northbound)
  • 3tph to Stonebridge Park via Queen's Park (Northbound)
  • 11tph to Queen's Park (Northbound)
  • 20tph to Elephant & Castle (Southbound)

Weekday peak service operates with one or two additional Queen's Park-Elephant & Castle trains per hour, and Sunday service operates with two fewer Queen's Park-Elephant & Castle trains per hour during the core of the day.

Connections

The station is served by London Buses routes 18, 27, 30, 88, 205, 453 and night route N18.

Notes and references

Footnotes
Citations
  1. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  6. ^ Rose, Douglas (1999). The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History. Douglas Rose. ISBN 1-85414-219-4.
  7. ^ Badsey-Ellis, Antony (2005). London's Lost Tube Schemes. Capital Transport. p. 232. ISBN 1-85414-293-3.
  8. ^ a b Abbott, James, ed. (November 1983). "Reprieve for LT stations". Modern Railways. 40 (422): 565.
  9. ^ "Bakerloo Line Working Timetable No. 42" (PDF). Transport for London. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
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