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Single Return Open Return. Return journey time. Add another railcard. Buy tickets. Before it opened in , there was a competition to name it. This was, apparently, the winning entry, despite the station being lower than Northwood.
Inside the bookshop the archway to the platforms is still visible, but blocked off, and the platforms behind are still in place. The first railway station to employ electrified tracks in London. The track running towards Bayswater passes under Leinster Road — a facade constructed to match neighbouring terrace houses. Was designed under the supervision of John Wolfe Barry, the man who designed Tower Bridge and whose father designed the Houses of Parliament.
A world map in the station ticket hall, dating from the s, contains a linear clock that shows the time in all parts of the world. Originally named after Ben Pimlico, a Hoxton brewer famous for his nut brown ale. It was so insanely popular with the residents of the area, the place became named after him. In , a Pyrenean Mountain Dog named Rufus became a minor celebrity for his daily commute from Pinner to Baker Street due to his enormous size.
Afterwards, it took less than half an hour. The name Queensbury did not, when it was chosen, refer to any pre-existing area. It was coined by analogy with the adjacent Kingsbury station. The least Instagrammed station in London, with zero posts for the whole of When the station first opened, there was only one single house nearby, owned by a farmer named Daniel Rayner. During WW2, the train tunnels at Redbridge were used as an aircraft parts factory.
Is a surprising hub for film locations: scenes for both Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the Last Crusade were filmed literally two minutes north of the station, as well as Bridget Jones and the Edge of Reason, and Blackadder. The quietest tube station on the line, transporting the same number of passengers in a year as Waterloo does in one day. Named after a nearby pub still there, but now called The Porchester. The sign lists the number of steps as There as in fact, Quite why no-one double checked is a mystery.
Named after seven elm trees which have stood in the neighbourhood since the s. The current trees were planted by five families of seven sisters. The River Westbourne literally runs through the station — it was redirected through its own little bridge suspended over the main platform.
The train actually travels over a marsh north of the station. It crosses it via aquaduct. Between South Kensington and Knightsbridge, the tube steers away from following the road above it in order to avoid a large plague pit. Its platform was built too high for the trains, and never corrected. In , an aeroplane with ice on its wings crashed into a nearby house, but thanks to the skill of the pilot, essentially landed neatly on the roof.
Despite their being 5 people aboard, and a toddler asleep in the top floor of the house, no-one was even injured. Opening in , the originally proposed name was Merton Grove, but it was renamed South Wimbledon to try and sound classier. The station platform undergoes a makeover each year to coincide with the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
When it first opened, local residents were given a free return ticket to Piccadilly Circus to encourage them to use the service. Is a Grade 1 listed building, making station improvements considerably difficult. During the Second World War, the electricity grid control room for the entire of London and Southeast England was housed here, in the lift shaft.
The first tube station to have an automatic ticket barrier installed on 5 January Was a secret outstation for Bletchley Park during WW2 — in fact, the crosswords decorating the station house are a reference to the test WW2 codebreakers had to pass to qualify for consideration: completing the Times crossword in under 12minutes.
A Tudor-era bowling ball was unearthed during the Crossrail excavations under the station. Just below the station platforms, there is an air raid shelter comprised of two tunnels, both six times the length of the platforms themselves. The booking hall is the only original feature — the rest has been destroyed by WW2 bombing, and two major fires. Has the shortest escalator on the network, with a vertical rise of 4.
Staff often have to chase large numbers of the birds out of the ticket hall. On the columns at Temple station, there are small temple-shaped emblems at the bases. Is the only part of Theydon Bois that has street lighting — the rest of the town has none in order to maintain ambiance. The big statue of Edward VII at the entrance was paid for entirely by the public when it was made in Was originally called Oxford Street before Oxford Circus opened.
Which, apparently, had flowers in them. And of course, the tube barriers there now techincally are a toll gate, meaning the name is still accurate. The speed of sound was first accurately measured from the church next to the station. Displayed a swastika in its ticket hall when it was built in They took it down a few years later for, well, understandable reasons. The Gunpowder Plot was hatched in a manor house next to the station.
They would pull into the station, and pour their contents into a discharge pipe that led directly to the creamery. The tunnels between Wanstead and Gants Hill to the east were turned into munitions factories during WW2. Used as the location for the British horror film, Death Line, which featured a family of cannibals living on the London Underground.
A song named after it by singer Duffy reached number 3 in the charts. Has 23 escalators, the most of any station on the network. Due to not being in the centre of town, has been threatened with closure since Despite servicing Wembley Stadium, is only the nd busiest station on the line. Was originally constructed to serve Wembley Pleasure Grounds, which were to be centrepieced by a tower taller than the Eiffel Tower.
The Overground lines here were built in before the district line as part of the West London Line — which was closed between and due to WWII bombing. Made predominantly from fittings taken from other stations in the North of England. The bridge apparently came from Yorkshire. Has more platforms 8 than Charing Cross 6. The longest journey you can take without a change on the entire Underground network is the 37 miles from West Ruislip to Epping.
Was the first station to be demolished. It was relocated in Excavations for creating the deep level Jubilee line platforms caused Big Ben to move 35 millimeters. Any more, and the tower would have cracked and possibly collapsed.
Surely it was worth trying to haul back a bit of that wasted space. Hard though it might be, changing how commuters behave is an ever more important part of a barrage of efforts to increase the capacity of the Tube, efforts that draw in equal parts on social psychology and fluid dynamics: the best model for the movement of a crowd through a warren of tunnels is the movement of a torrent of water through pipes.
London is growing faster than any other European city; its population of 8. And so TfL has to extract every last ounce of capacity from its underground network, the oldest in the world. In a system operating so close to capacity, the obedience of its users is also vital. The stand-on-the-left controversy is no exception. In order to make their plan work, they had to be ingenious — and persuasive.
So we went for encouragement. It even meant asking amenable couples to hold hands across the escalator, the better to thwart those who wished to slalom through the line. Harrison is a year veteran of the Underground, and even if she mostly cycles herself, she loves it, above all for the people.
Through it all, she says, she has remained an optimist, and perhaps she has a better sense of perspective than most. During the three weeks of the Holborn project, those who disapproved of the idea voiced their opinions with alacrity, as a preliminary internal report diligently records. A customer who was asked to stand still replied by giving the member of staff in question the finger. One man, determined to stride to the top come what may, pushed a child to one side.
It is not yet clear whether a Putinesque future awaits us. If the stand-on-the-left experiment is to be adopted permanently at Holborn, and potentially be extended to other comparable stations, it will have to get through more testing and analysis. It worked. Through their own observations and the data they gathered, Harrison and her team found strong evidence to back their case. An escalator that carried 12, customers between 8.
These results, you might imagine, would be enough to see the model introduced instantly at any station where the escalator was sufficiently steep to discourage people from walking up.
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