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Regent's Park tube station

Coordinates:51°31′25″N0°08′47″W/ 51.5235°N 0.1464°W/51.5235; -0.1464
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Regent's ParkLondon 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
2018Increase3.68 million[1]
2019Increase3.87 million[2]
2020Decrease1.63 million[3]
2021Decrease1.27 million[4]
2022Increase2.15 million[5]
Railway companies
Original companyBaker Street and Waterloo Railway
Key dates
10 March 1906Station opened
Other information
External links
Coordinates51°31′25″N0°08′47″W/ 51.5235°N 0.1464°W/51.5235; -0.1464
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Regent's Parkis aLondon Undergroundstation 175 metres (191 yd) south ofRegent's Park.It is on a northern cusp ofFitzrovia[a]andMaryleboneon theBakerloo line,betweenBaker StreetandOxford Circusstations. Its access is on Marylebone Road, withinPark Crescent,inTravelcard Zone 1,in which zone it is the second-least used station (least-used isLambeth North) – it saw 3.5 million entries or exits in 2015. It is 190 metres (210 yd) west ofGreat Portland Street tube stationon the same arterial road.

History

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Map
Location of Regent's Park station

The station was opened on 10 March 1906[6]by theBaker 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 Transportproposed 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 theGLCfor the matter to be reconsidered.[8]

Station design

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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, theRoyal Academy of Music,theRoyal College of Physicians,Holy Trinity Church,Portland PlaceandHarley Street.

Great Portland Streetstation is within walking distance to the east for interchanges to theCircle,Hammersmith & City,andMetropolitanlines; however,out-of-station interchangefares do not apply and both journeys will continue to be charged separately.

Services

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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

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The station is served byLondon Busesroutes18,27,30,88,205,453and night routeN18.

Notes and references

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Footnotes
  1. ^Until the 1940s called East Marylebone
Citations
  1. ^"Station Usage Data"(CSV).Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018.Transport for London.23 September 2020.Archivedfrom the original on 14 January 2023.Retrieved11 October2023.
  2. ^"Station Usage Data"(XLSX).Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019.Transport for London.23 September 2020.Archivedfrom the original on 9 November 2020.Retrieved9 November2020.
  3. ^"Station Usage Data"(XLSX).Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020.Transport for London.16 April 2021.Retrieved1 January2022.
  4. ^"Station Usage Data"(XLSX).Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021.Transport for London.12 July 2022.Retrieved7 September2022.
  5. ^"Station Usage Data"(XLSX).Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022.Transport for London.4 October 2023.Retrieved10 October2023.
  6. ^ Rose, Douglas (1999).The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History.Douglas Rose.ISBN1-85414-219-4.
  7. ^Badsey-Ellis, Antony (2005).London's Lost Tube Schemes.Capital Transport. p. 232.ISBN1-85414-293-3.
  8. ^abAbbott, 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.Retrieved14 July2017.
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