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The station was opened by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway on 15 December 1906. [6] It was the connecting station between the two original companies, the London United Railway and the Piccadilly and City Railway, who amalgamated after Parliament demanded the entire line from Hammersmith to Finsbury Park should be built as one scheme.
In recent years, several piecemeal improvements to the station have occurred. The platforms were refurbished in 2005, with the 1930s cream-coloured tiles being concealed behind a modern metal cladding system. [6] In December 2010, a new entrance was opened across the road from the station, as part of the One Hyde Park residential development. [7]
Part of a section of the Great Northern & Strand Railway running beneath the Great Northern Railway north of Finsbury Park; cancelled when the line was merged with the Brompton & Piccadilly Circus Railway (now the Piccadilly line); it would have had an interchange with the GNR's Hornsey station. Hyde Park Corner: North West London Railway: 1899 ...
This year, the parade begins at 12pm and runs from Hyde Park Corner, through Piccadilly Circus, down Haymarket and along Pall Mall to Trafalgar Square, culminating at Whitehall Place.
Fifteen residents will be sleeping in beds other than their own tonight after a two-alarm fire ripped through a Hyde Parking multi-family house Wednesday. 15 residents displaced, firefighter ...
Memorial plaque of the King's Cross fire erected at the station. On 18 November 1987, the large King's Cross fire broke out, the incident being near the Northern/Piccadilly line escalators which killed 31 people. [120] [121] As a result, wooden escalators were replaced at all Underground stations.
The 1935 film Hyde Park Corner takes its name from the area, where it is set. "Hyde Park Corner" was used as a codeword to announce to the government the death of King George VI in 1952. [10] "Hyde Park Corner" was the second episode of the first season of the Netflix series The Crown. It covered the death of George VI and the accession of ...
The Friday after a holiday is always a busy time at Penn Station, but this week, things were more chaotic than usual after a man was found on fire. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA ...