Sign at Piccadilly London underground tube station,Shaftesbury Avenue,Haymarket,Regent Street,England,UK
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Contributor:
Tony Smith / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
2AE02GWFile size:
42.2 MB (1.6 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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4563 x 3234 px | 38.6 x 27.4 cm | 15.2 x 10.8 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
30 November 2019Location:
West End, London,England,UK, W1J 9HPMore information:
Piccadilly Circus is a London Underground station located directly beneath Piccadilly Circus itself, with entrances at every corner. Located in Travelcard Zone 1, the station is on the Piccadilly line between Green Park and Leicester Square and on the Bakerloo line between Charing Cross and Oxford Circus. The station was opened on 10 March 1906 by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (now the Bakerloo line) with the platforms of the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (now the Piccadilly line) being opened on 15 December 1906 The old station building designed by Leslie Green finally closed for traffic on 21 July 1929, it was demolished in the 1980s when the large building on the corner of Jermyn Street, Piccadilly and Haymarket was constructed. In 2016, Art on the Underground commissioned artists Langlands & Bell to create an artwork to commemorate Frank Pick, the former CEO of London Transport, on the 75th anniversary of his death. The artwork Beauty < Immortality is located in a prominent place on the wall of the ticket hall, with a Frank Pick tube roundel and bronze lettering in Johnston - a typeface commissioned by Pick in 1915, which is still used across the London transport network today