It is positioned between the Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road on the Central line. It is situated between the Piccadilly Circus and the Regent’s Park and between Warren Street and Green Park on the Victoria Line.
History of Oxford Tube Station
On the Central London Railway, the station got opened on 30 July 1900 with Baker Street and Waterloo Railway’s Platforms opening on 10 March 1906. There were separate lift shafts and buildings. The exits from the stations which were the station buildings were built on very restrained plots at either side of Argyll Street and in the south of Oxford Street only to the east of the circus. The stations were constructed originally as completely separated ones and later connected through passages which that were swiftly employed at the platform. To the east of Argyll Street, a Central London Railway building is the popular surviving illustration of the stations created by Harry Bell Measures and an example of a standard Leslie Green structure is the Bakerloo building to the west.
Refurbishment of Station
After a lot of planning and discussions between the two individual operators, a major refurbishment began in 1912. This resulted in the construction of a new ticket hall in Bakerloo station’s basement. The replacement of the Bakerloo station’s lift with deep level escalators took place down to the line level. Through the existing subways with deep level, access was provided to the Central Line. A number of improvements have been made since the outset of this station to keep in check the problems related to overcrowding to avoid difficulties for the commuters.
The refurbishment came into use in 1941 on 9 May with the facility of CLR elevators still available for passengers. By the beginning of the year 1923, this development was also rendered inefficient and to cope with the disorder caused at the station, a second refurbishment had to be commenced. This resulted in employment of escalator’s second set down to the Central Line and turning the CLR building into an exit only. Later in 1928, on 2nd October, a third escalator that led to the Central Line was built leading to the CLR station building becoming an exit only.
On 7 March 1969, The Victoria Line got opened. A new ticket hall was constructed in order to bear the overload of additional passengers under the road junction. To exhume the requirement of a new ticket hall under the roadway, diversion of traffic had to take place for five years on a momentary bridge like structure called as the “umbrella” enveloping the Regent Street/Oxford Street junction. To carry the telecom cables and water mains, services tunnels were constructed precedent the new ticket hall. Construction of the new shafts of escalators that form a link between the passages and the tunnels of the Victoria Line Station with platforms took place from access shafts sunk from the Cavendish Square, Argyll Street and Upper Regent Street.
The station has all the facilities like a cash machine, telephone booths, vending machines, a photo booth and many more.
Attractions
There are a number of attractions near the Oxford Circus tube station. If you have an eye for venturing into the area around Oxford Circus Tube Station take a look at these:
The London Palladium
is amongst the well known theaters in London and it is very closely located. Amongst the museums in London, Handel House Museum
is the one surrounding the Oxford Circus Tube station. There is a beautiful city district called Soho enchanted with beautiful ambience of an array of restaurants and pubs. Regent Street and Oxford Street are the hubs for shopping to give your shopaholic bug a high.
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