The final station in the delayed central section of the Elizabeth line is set to open later this month.
Transport for London said the Bond Street station will soon be transferred to London Underground and will open on Monday 24 October, subject to final approvals and final trials.
The station is set to open two weeks before the second stage of the Elizabeth Line’s phased opening on Sunday 6 November and will initially see trains every five minutes.
There will be no service on Sunday 30 October, but from 6 November, trains will be every three to four minutes, seven days a week.
From that date, eastbound passengers on the Reading and Heathrow branches will be able to travel east to Abbey Wood without changing at Paddington and customers travelling from Shenfield will be able to travel west to Paddington without changing at Liverpool Street.
TfL said the final timetable, bringing full end-to-end journeys and up to 24 trains per hour during the peak between Paddington and Whitechapel, is ‘on track’ to be in place by May 2023.
Outgoing TfL Commissioner Andy Byford said the ‘truly spectacular’ Bond Street station ‘will be the jewel in the crown of the West End’s transport provision’.
TfL said two new spacious ticket halls, with an abundance of natural light, will lead passengers to the 255-metre long platforms.
It added that both entrances feature columns ‘which blur the line between interior and exterior spaces’ and help the station fit into its surroundings with the choice of materials: red sandstone at Davies Street, and pale Portland stone at Hanover Square.
The new station is step free from street to train, with two lifts, and will accommodate nearly 140,000 Elizabeth line passengers daily, contributing to an overall station capacity of 225,000 across the Jubilee, Central and Elizabeth lines.
TfL said more than 45 million journeys have been made across the Elizabeth line since it opened in May, around half of which were in the central section between Paddington and Abbey Wood.
Thursday 22 September saw around 276,000 journeys completed in the central section – the highest daily number to date.
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