Platform and passageway walls were decorated in glazed cream tiles in Green's standard arrangement with margins, patterning and station names in mid-blue. It featured the company's standard red glazed terracotta facade with wide semi-circular arches at first-floor level. As with most of the other GNP&BR stations, the station building, on the east side of Dover Street, was designed by Leslie Green. The GNP&BR opened the station on 15 December 1906 as Dover Street. Tunnelling began in 1902 shortly before the B&PCR was merged with the Great Northern and Strand Railway to create the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR, the predecessor of the Piccadilly line). It was not until after the B&PCR had been taken over by Charles Yerkes's Metropolitan District Electric Traction Company that the money became available. While the various rival schemes were unsuccessful in obtaining parliamentary approval, the B&PCR was unsuccessful in raising the funds needed to construct its line. Owing to failures in the application process, this scheme was also rejected. As the CLR had done previously, the company proposed a station at St James's Street. In 1905, some of the promoters of the PC&NELR regrouped and submitted a proposal for the Hammersmith, City and North East London Railway. Although favoured in parliament and likely to be approved, this scheme failed due to a falling-out between the backers and the sale of part of the proposals to a rival. It planned a station at Albemarle Street, just to the east of Dover Street. Ī third scheme for 1902 was the Piccadilly, City and North East London Railway (PC&NELR) which proposed a route between Hammersmith and Southgate. Delayed while a royal commission considered general principles of underground railways in London, the scheme was never fully considered and although it was re-presented in 1903, it was dropped two years later. This would have run along Piccadilly with a station at St James's Street just to the east of Dover Street. The same year, the Central London Railway (CLR, now the central section of the Central line) submitted a bill that aimed to turn its line running between Shepherd's Bush and Bank into a loop by constructing a second roughly parallel line to the south. A station was planned at Walsingham House on the north-east corner of Green Park. In 1902, the Charing Cross, Hammersmith and District Railway (CCH&DR) proposed a line between Charing Cross and Barnes with a parallel shuttle line running between Hyde Park Corner and Charing Cross. Following review by parliament, the C&WER bill was rejected and the B&PCR bill was approved and received royal assent in August 1897. The B&PCR proposed a station on the north side at Dover Street and the C&WER proposed a station on the south side at Arlington Street. The Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway (B&PCR) proposed a line between South Kensington and Piccadilly Circus and the City and West End Railway (C&WER) proposed a line between Hammersmith and Cannon Street. ![]() The first two proposals came before parliament in 1897. Location of original entrance to Dover Street station, approximate locations of stations proposed by rival companies and current Green Park station entrances A number of the schemes submitted to parliament for approval as private bills included proposals for lines running under Piccadilly with stations in the area of the current Green Park station. History Piccadilly line Rival schemes ĭuring the final years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century numerous competing schemes for underground railways through central London were proposed. The station is near The Ritz Hotel, the Royal Academy of Arts, St James's Palace, Berkeley Square, Bond Street, the Burlington Arcade and Fortnum & Mason, and is one of two serving Buckingham Palace (the other being St James's Park). It was modernised in the 1930s when lifts were replaced with escalators and extended in the 1960s and 1970s when the Victoria and Jubilee lines were constructed. ![]() The station was opened in 1906 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR) and was originally named Dover Street due to its location in that street. On the Jubilee line it is between Bond Street and Westminster on the Piccadilly line it is between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park Corner and on the Victoria line it is between Victoria and Oxford Circus. It is served by the Jubilee, Piccadilly and Victoria lines. Green Park is a London Underground station located on the edge of Green Park, with entrances on both sides of Piccadilly.
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