# Great Portland Street tube station

Great Portland Street is a London Underground station in Great Portland Street, London. It is on the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines between Baker Street and Euston Square stations in fare zone 1. The station is a Grade II listed building.

## History

The station was part of the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, which opened between "Bishop's Road" (now Paddington on the Hammersmith & City line) and "Farringdon Street" (close to the present-day Farringdon station). It was opened on 10 January 1863 as "Portland Road", changed to its present name on 1 March 1917, was renamed "Great Portland Street and Regents Park" in 1923 and then reverted to its current name in 1933. The current structure was built in 1930 on a traffic island on the Marylebone Road at its intersection with Great Portland Street and Albany Street. Its construction is a steel framed cream terracotta clad exterior, with the perimeter providing shops and originally a car showroom, with office space over the station. Great Portland Street was at a major sales location for the motor industry. It was designed by the Metropolitan Railway's architect C. W. Clark and was Grade II-listed in January 1987.
The station lies at the northern end of Great Portland Street – a main road which marks the border between Marylebone and Fitzrovia.
The local neighbourhood plan from 2017 identified the gyratory around Great Portland Street Underground Station as one where public realm improvements and traffic calming should be made.

## Services

The station is served by the Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and Circle lines, between Euston Square to the east and Baker Street to the west. All three lines share the same pair of tracks from Baker Street Junction to Aldgate Junction making this section of track one of the most intensely used on the London Underground network.

### Circle line

The typical service in trains per hour (tph) is:
* 6 tph clockwise via Kings Cross St Pancras and Liverpool Street
* 6 tph anti-clockwise to Hammersmith via Paddington

### Hammersmith & City line

The typical service in trains per hour (tph) is:
* 6 tph eastbound to Barking
* 6 tph westbound to Hammersmith via Paddington

### Metropolitan line

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:
* 12 tph eastbound to Aldgate
* 12 tph westbound via Baker Street:
** 2 tph to Amersham
** 2 tph to Chesham
** 8 tph to Uxbridge
The typical peak time service in trains per hour (tph) is:
* 14 tph eastbound to Aldgate
* 14 tph westbound via Baker Street:
** 2 tph to Amersham
** 2 tph to Chesham
** 4 tph to Watford
** 6 tph to Uxbridge
| Preceding station | London Underground | Following station |
| Baker Streettowards Hammersmith | Circle line | Euston Squaretowards Edgware Road via Aldgate |
| Baker Streettowards Hammersmith | Hammersmith & City line | Euston Squaretowards Barking |
| Baker Streettowards Uxbridge, Amersham, Chesham or Watford | Metropolitan line | Euston Squaretowards Aldgate |
| Former services |||||
| Baker Streettowards Hammersmith | Metropolitan lineHammersmith branch (1864–1990) | Euston Squaretowards Barking |

## Connections

The station is served by London Buses day and night routes.

## Gallery

* Station as seen from above looking north
* Original Metropolitan Steam Train passes through Great Portland Street Station
* Platform roundel
* View of station location circa 1790
* Station tunnel running under Marylebone Road
* Shown as the Metropolitan Railway's Portland Road Station in 1862
* Thomas Crane's 1883 poster of Portland Road Station
* Trial 1862 train journey passing Portland Road station.