Hyde Park Corner tube station

Hyde Park Corner
Hyde Park Corner
	Former Hyde Park Corner station building
	Hyde Park Corner Location of Hyde Park Corner in Central London
Location	Hyde Park Corner
Local authority	Westminster
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Fare zone	1
London Underground annual entry and exit
2019	4.44 million
2020	1.69 million
2021	1.88 million
2022	4.74 million
2023	4.16 million
Railway companies
Original company	Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway
Key dates
15 December 1906	Station opened
Other information
External links	TfL station info page;
Coordinates	51°30′10″N 0°09′10″W / 51.50278°N 0.15278°W
	London transport portal

Hyde Park Corner is a London Underground station near Hyde Park Corner in Hyde Park. It is in Travelcard Zone 1, between Knightsbridge and Green Park on the Piccadilly line.

History

The station was opened by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway on 15 December 1906.^[6] It was the connecting station between the two original companies, the London United Railway and the Piccadilly and City Railway, who amalgamated after Parliament demanded the entire line from Hammersmith to Finsbury Park should be built as one scheme.^[7]

The original, Leslie Green-designed station building still remains to the south of the road junction, notable by its ox-blood coloured tiles; it was until June 2010 used as a pizza restaurant, and since 14 December 2012 it has been the Wellesley Hotel. The building was taken out of use when the station was provided with escalators in place of lifts and a new sub-surface ticket hall that came into use on 23 May 1932 ^[8] although an emergency stairway provides a connection to the platforms. The lift shafts are now used to provide ventilation. The 1932 station had showcases inset to the walls that showed a series of dioramas depicting the development of the London bus – long gone, some of the scale models survive in the LT Museum Collections.^[8]

When the station was rebuilt with escalators the adjacent little-used station at Down Street to the east (towards Green Park) was taken out of use.^[9]

Present day

It is one of the few stations which have no associated buildings above ground, the station being fully underground. The current entrance to the station is accessed from within the pedestrian underpass system around the Hyde Park Corner junction.

When the central section of the Piccadilly line is closed, the station becomes the terminus of the western part due to the crossover tunnel to the east of the station.

Connections

London Buses routes 2, 9, 13, 14, 16, 19, 22, 23, 36, 38, 52, 74, 137, 148, 390, 414 and night routes N9, N16, N19, N22, N38 and N74 serve the station.
Green Line Coaches routes 701 and 702 serve the station.

Image gallery

Westbound platform looking east
Eastbound platform looking west
Decorative tiling
Platform roundel

References

Citations

^ "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.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
^ Horne 2007, p. 19.
^ Horne 2007, p. 12.
^ ^a ^b Croome, Desmond F.; Jackson, Alan A. (1993). Rails through the Clay. London. p. 198.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Horne 2007, p. 93.

Sources

Horne, Mike (2007). The Piccadilly Line. Capital Transport. ISBN 978-1-85414-305-1.

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[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2019-1] "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.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2020-2] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2021-3] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2022-4] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023.

[infobox_stats_ref_tube_2023-5] "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.

[FOOTNOTEHorne200719-6] Horne 2007, p. 19.

[FOOTNOTEHorne200712-7] Horne 2007, p. 12.

[cj-8] Croome, Desmond F.; Jackson, Alan A. (1993). Rails through the Clay. London. p. 198.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[FOOTNOTEHorne200793-9] Horne 2007, p. 93.

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