Westminster Station, London Underground
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Westminster Station
The Westminster station,
which was originally opened as Westminster
Bridge on December 1868, is a London
Underground station in the City of
Westminster. Located beneath Portcullis
House at the corner of Bridge Street and
Victoria Embankment, the station is served
by the Circle, District and Jubilee lines.
It is in Travelcard Zone 1.
The station also has the title of the
deepest ever excavation in central London,
at 39 meter deep.
The Jubilee Line extension
was completely reconstructed and was
designed by Michael Hopkins & Partners. It
is also considered the most complex station
in the Jubilee line in terms of engineering,
even the last to reopen - at
December 22, 1999. To date, not a trace of
the old station remains, but
the sacrifice was worth it
as the new design was given the 2001 Royal
Institute of British Architects
(RIBA) award.
The Westminster Station, which was featured
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
(2007) film, shares the "space-age" features
of other stations on the Jubilee Line
extension such as the austere interior, with
large concrete beams and columns and
stainless steel escalators and floors.
The Westminster station has
a private passageway allowing Members of
Parliament and civil
servants to securely access
Portcullis House.
