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Location Profile: REGENT'S PARK |
One of the oldest and original stations on the Tube lines is Regents Park on the Bakerloo Line.
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Regents Park features lovely original tiling at platform level
complete with the rings over the tunnel roof and numerous original name planels. Unusually I managed to get a decent shot of a tube platform with a train actually in it..... |
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The original method of accessing the platforms at many stations was
by way of lifts from the ticket hall and while many stations had these removed in favour
of escalators, Regent's Park retains its lifts. However because of the need to replace these, the station closed on the 11th of July (hours after I took these images) for a year for extensive repair and replacement work. |
Regent's Park has two lifts although at platform level seen above left there are three lift portals (the third lift was never fitted). It's ironic that many stations that had their lifts removed in favour of escalators will need to have them reinstated again in the next few years to comply with new disabled access legislation! Hopefully the original tiling will be repaired and retained as part of the refurbishment.
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At the top of the lifts, departing passengers arrive in a very
pokey little ticket hall that is exited from by way of two small foot passageways to the
surface. There is no surface building and the only sign that there is a station here
from the Euston Road is a small set of railings and a sign. As the picture shown left was taken on the last day before the station closed for extensive refurbishment work, the signs had already been removed making the station even more anonymous! |
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 I had to resort to an Internet search to find a picture with the sign in place! Once the station reopens (should be sometime in mid 2007 apparently) I will return and see what has changed as well as get a picture with the sign restored back to its proper place. Click on the leaflet on the left to view the full information
available from the Transport for London website |
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Regent's Park Station is located on the south side of Euston Road and right in the middle of a lovely example of Edwardian architecture in the form of the magnificent Park Crescent. |
| The west end of Park Crescent is shown on the right and is not the easiest feature to photograph mainly because of its size and location. It is however a magnificent example of its kind and probably costs even more to live in today than it did when it was originally built. |  |
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The familiar traffic laden mess that is Euston Road is right outside Regent's Park Station and indeed separates the Station and Park Crescent on the south side from the Park and the Zoo on the north side. Nearest station whilst Regent's Park is closed is Great Portland Street on the Metropolitan, Circle and Hammersmith & City Lines.