Green Park tube station

Green Park
Location	Piccadilly
Local authority	Westminster
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	6
Travelcard zone	1
LUL 2005 usage	24.893 million
LUL 2007 usage	30.034 million
1906; 1969; 1979	Opened (GNP&BR); Opened (Victoria); Opened (Jubilee)
List of stations	Underground · National Rail
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For other uses, see Green Park station.

Green Park tube station is a London Underground station located on the north side of Green Park, close to the intersection of Piccadilly and the pedestrian Queen's Walk. It is in Travelcard Zone 1.

The station is served by the Piccadilly line, between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park Corner, the Victoria line, between Victoria and Oxford Circus, and the Jubilee line, between Bond Street and Westminster.

[edit] History and structure

The station was opened on 15 December 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR), the precursor of the Piccadilly line. The station was originally named Dover Street due to its location in that street. When the station was rebuilt in 1933 with escalator access to the platforms, a new sub-surface ticket hall was built to the west under the roadway and new station entrances were constructed on the corner of Piccadilly and Stratton Street and on the south side of Piccadilly. The station name was changed at this time.

With the rebuilding of the station and similar works at Hyde Park Corner, the little-used Piccadilly line station between the two at Down Street was taken out of use.

The Victoria line platforms opened on 7 March 1969; interchange between that line and the Piccadilly line was via the ticket hall (without having to pass through the exit barriers). The Jubilee line platforms opened on 1 May 1979, at which time the next station south on the Jubilee Line was its then southern terminus, Charing Cross; those platforms were closed when the Jubilee line was extended on a new alignment towards Westminster; at the same time interchange facilities at Green Park were improved. When travelling south from Green Park on the Jubilee Line, Green Park Junction, where the new line diverges from the old, is visible from the train. While passenger services no longer operate to Charing Cross on the Jubilee Line, the old line is used regularly to reverse trains when the eastern part of the line is closed due to engineering works.

On the 9 October 1975, terrorists belonging to the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb outside Green Park tube station, killing a 23-year old Graham Ronald Tuck. Similar attacks during The Troubles resulted in deaths at West Ham station in 1976 and Victoria Station in 1991.

[edit] In popular culture

The opening scene of the 1997 film version of Henry James's The Wings of the Dove was set on the east-bound platforms at both Dover Street and Knightsbridge stations, both represented by the same studio mock-up, complete with a working recreation of a 1906 Stock train.

[edit] Gallery

Jubilee Line at Green Park Tube station

Victoria Line platform and train

Leaf design on the Jubilee Line platforms represents the trees in nearby Green Park

Original tree motif tiling restored on Victoria line platforms represents the trees in nearby Green Park

[edit] Transport connections

London Buses routes 8, 9, 14, 19, 22 and 38 serve the station.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Transport for London - London Underground performance update

[edit] External links

Preceding station	London Underground	Following station
Victoria towards Brixton	Victoria line	Oxford Circus towards Walthamstow Central
Bond Street towards Stanmore	Jubilee line	Westminster towards Stratford
Hyde Park Corner towards Uxbridge or Heathrow (Terminals 1, 2, 3 or Terminal 5)	Piccadilly line	Piccadilly Circus towards Cockfosters
	Former Route
Preceding station	London Underground	Following station
Down Street	Piccadilly Line Former Route (1906-1932)	Piccadilly Circus
Bond Street	Jubilee Line Former Route (1979-1999)	Charing Cross