The impact of Elizabeth Line – Bond Street station
What’s most compelling about the Elizabeth Line Bond Street is the way in which the new station has catalysed a number of major architectural projects in the vicinity. The station itself, buried deep beneath the south of Oxford Street, was designed by John McAslan Partners, following the initial design masterplan set up by Grimshaw Architects for the whole Elizabeth Line system.
All of the stakeholders in this multi-billion-pound enterprise have played a very long game, whether they’re developers, architects, engineers, councils, or transport organisations. The first plans for what became known as Crossrail (and was subsequently named the Elizabeth Line in 2016) were mooted back in 1974, although plans for major cross-capital train tunnels date back to the 1940s
Whereas the Jubilee Line, the capital’s second most recent piece of major infrastructure, was characterised by a series of architecturally distinct stations, the Elizabeth Line approach was more uniform. What makes the new line notably different from the rest of the network is the sense of scale; trains are around twice as long as a standard tube train, and travel at around twice the speed.
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