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post updated 14 June 2025

Jenny Hamilton awarded MBE in King’s Birthday Honours 2025 for her innovative work that transformed London’s iconic Tube stations.

In a career spanning more than 30 years, Jenny has helped improve accessibility and travel through stations such as Victoria, Bank, Elephant & Castle, Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road – opening up the Tube network for millions of people in the capital.

Jenny Hamilton, Lead Sponsor at Transport for London (TfL) has been recognised with an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for her work master-planning some of London’s busiest and most complex Tube stations, helping millions get around the city with ease.

Jenny, who is from Canterbury and started working at TfL in 1990, has helped guide major engineering projects through from beginning to end to ensure their success. She has led on the development of a number of landmark London Underground stations, including Bank, Elephant & Castle and Paddington. Jenny also took the lead in the delivery planning of Victoria, Tottenham Court Road and Bond Street stations, which both originally opened in 1900, to connect to the 21st century designs of the city’s newest railway, the Elizabeth line.

Through her work, crowded passageways that had become an accepted part of travel at several stations were removed, improving the daily commute for millions of Londoners and increasing station capacity across several stations. Wayfinding at stations was also improved, making it easier for customers to navigate through stations and helping to reduce journey times.

Her work has also particularly helped those with accessibility needs find step-free routes from street to train – journeys which may have been impossible before her innovative design solutions.

Ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games, Jenny was key to the development of the Hammersmith and City line station at Paddington, integrating the station with the improved taxi ranks and helping the millions of people coming to London to travel through easily to make London the first public transport Games.

At Bank, in the face of financial pressures when it may have been easier to rely on tried and tested measures that wouldn’t have delivered the benefits to their fullest, Jenny went the extra mile to bring customers the best transformation of the station. By helping to develop and then leading a brand-new pioneering procurement process where the supply chain was incentivised to think innovatively, she achieved significant journey-time savings for customers and relieved congestion, whilst removing £100m of costs from the overall station project. The moving walkway at Bank now provides fast and efficient interchange between the Central line and Northern line and wouldn’t have been possible without the process she designed.

Most recently, she has been leading work to integrate TfL’s services into the new proposed HS2 station at Euston where, working with a range of partners, she provides valuable advice, insight, creativity and experience which will undoubtedly help achieve the best, affordable solution.

Jenny Hamilton, Lead Sponsor at Transport for London, said: “I am very happy, but also honoured to receive this award and I would like thank all the amazing people I have worked with across TfL who are vital to the successfully delivery of these schemes. It is a privilege to work on these projects and to then get this recognition for what I’ve done is such a surprise. I’ve spent most of my career in sponsorship, and I see my role as being about making stations safer and more accessible. Our stations see thousands of people travelling through them every day and I’m really happy to see so many enjoying the results of what I do.”

Andy Lord, London’s Transport Commissioner, said: “I’m incredibly proud that Jenny has been awarded this commendation for her tireless work to improve our stations and help make London better for everyone. Millions of people who travel from across the capital every day have Jenny to thank for her tireless efforts to make Tube and rail journeys easier and more accessible. Her work to promote inclusive design solutions to make stations as accessible as possible in the face of challenges, including financial, is second to none.

“Her positive and determined approach, always looking to go above and beyond, is known by all who work with her, and this commendation is richly deserved.”
Seb Dance, Deputy Mayor for Transport, said: “I’m delighted that Jenny’s incredible work throughout her TfL career has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours. Her dedication to making it easier for people to travel around our transport network has led to transformed stations and millions of improved journeys. From Bank to Bond Street, she has delivered projects with accessibility and inclusion at their heart, in the face of multiple challenges. Huge congratulations to Jenny on this fantastic achievement.”

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Underground Stations London

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of London Underground Station Architecture. We aim to include projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both. We cover completed Tube buildings and proposed building designs.

31 Oct 2022
Bond Street Station, Hanover Square and Davies Street, Central London, England, UK
Design: John McAslan + Partners / Engineer: WSP

photo : John McAslan + Partners
Bond Street Station London Elizabeth Line
A new point of arrival into London’s West End designed by John McAslan + Partners with engineers WSP creates an uplifting passenger experience that celebrates the urban realm of Bond Street station.

23 May 2022
Two Elizabeth Line stations
Design: Weston Williamson + Partners Architects

photo : Morley von Sternberg
Two Elizabeth Line Stations
Weston Williamson + Partners are the architects behind two new Elizabeth Line stations at Paddington and Woolwich, now revealed as London’s largest infrastructure project in decades opens to the public. The Elizabeth Line is a transformational new railway line for London, and will stretch more than 100km from Reading and Heathrow in the west through central London to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east.

Tottenham Court Road Underground Station, Oxford Street, Central London
Design: Stanton Williams Architects

photo © Jack Hobhouse
Tottenham Court Road Underground Station

Jubilee Line Station Buildings
Jubilee Line Buildings

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Borough Tube Station – Northern Line, Southwark

photo © Adrian Welch
Modern building located on the Bank branch of the Northern Line between Elephant & Castle and London Bridge stations.

Canary Wharf Station – Jubilee Line Extension, Isle of Dogs
Design: Foster + Partners

photo © Adrian Welch
Canary Wharf Station
Canary Wharf Underground station is on the Jubilee line, between Canada Water and North Greenwich. The building was opened on 17 September 1999 as part of the Jubilee Line Extension.

Over 40 million people pass through the station each year, making it second busiest on the London Underground outside Central London after Stratford, and also the busiest that serves only a single line. Above ground there is little sign of the vast interior: two curved glass canopies at the east and west ends of the station cover the entrances and allow daylight into the ticket hall below.

Crossrail Stations – proposed developments
Design: various Architects

picture from Crossrail
Crossrail Stations
Plans by Crossrail to develop 30,000 sqft of residential space in Holborn have been approved by Camden Council. The building development will sit above the Fisher Street shaft – a single storey structure that provides access and ventilation to the below ground Crossrail tunnels.

Finsbury Park Railway + Tube Station, north London
Design: unknown

photograph © Adrian Welch

Knightsbridge Underground Station, southwest London

photo © Nick Weall

Osterley Park Tube Station

photos © Nick Weall

Park Royal Underground Station

photo © Nick Weall

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