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Great Portland Street is a London Underground station near Regent's Park. It is between and on the Hammersmith & City, Circle and Metropolitan lines. Great Portland Street station is listed as a building of National Significance and lies in Travelcard Zone 1. ==History== The station was part of the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, which opened between "Bishop's Road" (now ) on the Hammersmith & City line and "Farringdon Street" (close to the present-day station). It was opened on 10 January 1863 as "Portland Road", renamed "Great Portland Street and Regents Park" in 1923 and changed to its present name on 1 March 1917. The current structure was built in 1930 on a traffic island on the Marylebone Road at its intersection with Great Portland Street and Albany Street. Its construction is a steel framed cream terracotta clad exterior, with the perimeter providing shops and originally a car showroom with office space over the station. Great Portland Street was at a major sales location for the motor industry. It was designed by the Metropolitan Railway's architect C.W. Clark and was Grade II listed in January 1987.〔London Underground Station Heritage Board, accessed 10 January 2013〕 The station lies at the northern end of Great Portland Street - a main road which marks the border between Marylebone and Fitzrovia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About us )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.marylebone.org/images/docs/Marylebone_Association_Constitution.pdf )〕 Local points of interest include Regent's Park, Marylebone's Holy Trinity Church, Fitzrovia's BT Tower and Regent's Place. The station lies across the street from the main building of International Students House, a student residence and hostel and is also near the Harley Street medical district, famous for its doctors and surgeons.〔Orientation of the station above ground may be accessed via these videos of (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Great Portland Street Station exterior and surroundings )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great Portland Street tube station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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