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<h4><a href='/locations/M/Manor_House'>Manor House</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>One of the stairwell entrances to Manor House station, LUL Piccadilly Line, on the Cockfosters extension that opened as far as Arnos Grove on 19th September 1932, seen here on 9th December 2010. The stations on the extension were designed by Dr. Charles Holden (1875-1960), the Underground's Chief Architect between the two world wars. When opened, there was an additional subway from the sub-surface ticket hall giving access to two loading platforms on Seven Sisters Road for the trams running north-east/south west. The subway and platforms fell into disuse when trolleybuses replaced trams in 1939 but the platforms remained in situ until 1951. Trams continued to serve Manor House along Green Lanes from the south until 1952 and I am just old enough to remember trolleybuses here before they were withdrawn in 1961. There was a magnificent kaleidoscopic spiders' web of overhead wires where the Seven Sisters Road routes crossed those on Green Lanes. The passing bus in this picture, not half as romantic nor as comfortable as the trolleys, is HW 2 on route 141 en route to Palmers Green North Circular Road, the latter day truncated successor to the 641 trolleybus route that used to go all the way to Enfield. 1/138</p><p>09/12/2010<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/D/Debden'>Debden</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/O/Ongar_Extension_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Ongar Extension (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Debden station, LUL Central Line, looking towards Epping on 1st July 2012. This was opened by the GER as Chigwell Lane in 1865 with the extension of the line from Loughton to Ongar and was first served by tube trains on 25th September 1949 with electrification to Epping. On the same date, it was renamed Debden after the vast new post war LCC estate that grew up in the fields to the north and north-east of Loughton. In 1973, the rather cramped Victorian station entrance (which I remember well as I grew up in Loughton) was replaced by a modern building but the former station house survives, out of view on the left. The canopy over the footbridge also dates from the same time. 2/138</p><p>01/07/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Balham'>Balham</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/West_End_of_London_and_Crystal_Palace_Railway'>West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway</a></small></p><p>One of two identical entrances, on either side of the street, to Balham station, LUL Northern Line (here in south London) on 10th November 2012. Balham opened on 13th September 1926 with the extension from Clapham Common to Morden but did not become known as the Northern Line until 1937. Designed by Dr. Charles Holden (1875-1960), the London Underground's Chief Architect between the two world wars, this is the only station on the Morden extension of the Northern Line to have an interchange with National Rail services. (NB: the Company detail is incorrect, it should be City & South London Railway (Morden Extension)). 3/138</p><p>10/11/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Morden'>Morden</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross_to_Waterloo_and_Morden_Extension_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Charing Cross to Waterloo and Morden Extension (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>From the moment the LUL Morden station opened on 13th September 1926, to the design of Dr. Charles Holden (1875-1960), the London Underground's Chief Architect between the two world wars (the office block above was added in the 1960s) its forecourt became a bus terminus for several routes fanning out in all directions. In this view bus PVL 229, on route 118 to Brixton, hovers outside the station on 10th November 2012. 4/138</p><p>10/11/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Morden'>Morden</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross_to_Waterloo_and_Morden_Extension_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Charing Cross to Waterloo and Morden Extension (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Morden station on 10th November 2012. It opened on 13th September 1926 with the extension of the City & South London Railway from Clapham Common. The line then became known as the Morden-Edgware Line until 1937 when it became the Northern Line. South of here, the tracks continue to Morden depot and some years ago I was on a special train of 1938 stock that took participants to the depot on a rare Open Day. Interesting to travel on a section of the Underground not normally used by passenger trains. 5/138</p><p>10/11/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Cockfosters'>Cockfosters</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>The LUL Piccadilly Line terminus at Cockfosters, opened in 1933, seen here on 16th November 2012. Designed by Dr. Charles Holden (1875-1960), the London Underground's Chief Architect between the two world wars. 6/138</p><p>16/11/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southgate'>Southgate</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>The platform for Piccadilly Line trains to Heathrow and Uxbridge at Southgate station, north London, opened in 1933, looking north, on 16th November 2012. This is the only deep-level 'tube' station on the London Underground where it is possible to see light at the end of the tunnel but only from this platform, not that to Cockfosters which is on a slight curve. 7/138</p><p>16/11/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Goodge_Street'>Goodge Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Goodge Street, LUL Northern Line, on 4th December 2012. This was opened by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway on 22nd June 1907 as Tottenham Court Road and renamed Goodge Street when the CCEHR's Oxford Street station, one stop south, was renamed Tottenham Court Road in conjunction with the Central London Railway platforms where the two lines intersected. In 1924, the City & South London Railway was extended north to a connection with the CCEHR at Camden Town while, at the same time, the CCEHR was extended south from its original terminus at Charing Cross (now Embankment) to a connection with the CSLR at Kennington. The two combined lines were then known as the Morden-Edgware Line until 1937 when it was further renamed as the Northern Line. 8/138</p><p>04/12/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Mill_Hill_East'>Mill Hill East</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware,_Highgate_and_London_Railway'>Edgware, Highgate and London Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of the LUL Northern Line station at Mill Hill East, on 19th December 2012. This station was opened in 1867 on the 'Northern Heights' line from Seven Sisters Road (renamed Finsbury Park in 1869) to Edgware and was first served by tube trains in 1941. Originally a through station, it was originally intended to extend electrification to Edgware and over a brand new extension to Bushey Heath but these plans were held in abeyance during World War Two and then never completed after 1945. Mill Hill East today is the terminus of the one-stop shuttle service to and from Finchley Central with a few peak hour trains to and from central London and on to Kennington via Charing Cross or Morden via Bank.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2268</a> 9/138</p><p>19/12/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Warren_Street_CCEHR'>Warren Street [CCEHR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>On the Northern Line platforms at Warren Street station can be seen the original name Euston Road under which it was opened with the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway on 22nd June 1907 and which it bore for less than a year, being renamed on 3rd May 1908. Obscured for many years by advertising hoarding, this has now been removed and this view is on the southbound platform on 28th April 2018. The station became an interchange with the LUL Victoria Line when it was extended here from Highbury & Islington in December 1968. 10/138</p><p>19/12/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bow_Road'>Bow Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Whitechapel_and_Bow_Railway_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway_and_District_Railway'>Whitechapel and Bow Railway (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and District Railway)</a></small></p><p>Bow Road station, east London, LUL District and Hammersmith & City Lines, looking east on 5th January 2013. This shows the start of the steep incline which takes trains out of the cut-and-cover tunnel and up to where they begin to run alongside the ex-LTSR tracks with Hammersmith & City Line trains terminating at Barking while District Line trains go all the way through to Upminster. From 1905 until 1939, District trains ran all the way from Ealing Broadway to Southend On Sea, over the LTSR, changing from District electric locomotives to LTSR (LMSR from 1923) steam locomotives at Barking. The service was withdrawn as a World War Two economy and never reinstated after 1945. The western end of the platforms are inside the tunnel, this section of the line having opened as the Whitechapel & Bow Railway on 2nd June 1902. 11/138</p><p>05/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Great_Portland_Street'>Great Portland Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Victorian brickwork at the west end of the eastbound platform at Great Portland Street station, on 13th January 2013. This station opened as Portland Road with the world's first Underground, the Metropolitan Railway from Bishop's Road, Paddington (now simply Paddington) to Farringdon Street (now Farringdon) on 10th January 1863, this photo being three days after the line and station's 150th birthday. 12/138</p><p>13/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Barbican'>Barbican</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Widened_Lines_Metropolitan_Railway'>Widened Lines (Metropolitan Railway)</a></small></p><p>The disused Widened Lines platforms at Barbican station, with the still extant Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan Lines platforms on the left, looking east in the snow on Sunday, 20th January 2013. This station opened as Aldersgate Street in 1865 with the extension of the Metropolitan Railway from Farringdon Street (now Farringdon) to Moorgate Street (now Moorgate) and was renamed Aldersgate & Barbican in 1923 (though it was never shown on the famous London Underground diagram as such, only as Aldersgate) and finally to just Barbican in 1968. The former all-over glass roof was destroyed in the London Blitz of World War Two and the frame was taken down in 1955 but it is still possible to see the support brackets on the walls of the two side platforms, above the replacement canopies. For many years, this station was closed on Sundays but is now open full-time again. 13/138</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Barbican'>Barbican</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Widened_Lines_Metropolitan_Railway'>Widened Lines (Metropolitan Railway)</a></small></p><p>The disused Widened Lines platforms at Barbican station, looking west, in the snow on Sunday, 20th January 2013. This station opened in 1865 and once boasted a magnificent all-over glass roof that disintegrated during the London 'Blitz' air raids and the frame was taken down in 1955. It is still possible to see the brackets that supported the roof all the way along the outer walls of the station. The signal box in the background has since been demolished. I would also refer you to Sir John Betjeman's delightful poem 'Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street station' (under which name the station opened in 1865) in which he describes his love for the London that once was and his horror for the changes that came after 1945. 14/138</p><p>20/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Harrow'>West Harrow</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Uxbridge_Railway'>Harrow and Uxbridge Railway</a></small></p><p>The halt-like buildings to the south side platform at West Harrow station, on the LUL Metropolitan Line's Uxbridge branch, on a snowy 22nd January 2013. At this time, this entrance had no mechanical rottweilers (oops! sorry, I meant automatic ticket gates) so passengers were able to enter and exit without having their tickets checked. It is a long time since I've been to West Harrow so I am not sure if this is still the case. There is a new modern entrance on the north side that does have the barriers. The Harrow & Uxbridge Railway, an offshoot of the Metropolitan, was opened on 4th July 1904 but West Harrow station was not opened until 17th November 1913. So 10 months short of its centenary in this photo. 15/138</p><p>22/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Clapham_North'>Clapham North</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Clapham North station, LUL Northern Line, on 13th April 2013. It was opened by the City & South London Railway on 3rd June 1900 as Clapham Road and was renamed Clapham North on 13th September 1926 when the line was extended from Clapham Common to its ultimate southern terminus at Morden. The line then became known as the Morden-Edgware Line until renamed Northern Line in 1937, notwithstanding that it has this lengthy section in south London! This station is one of only two surviving with a narrow island platform in a single tunnel, the other being Clapham Common, one stop south. The others, also on the Northern Line, at Euston (Bank branch) disappeared during the construction of the Victoria Line in the 1960s while that at Angel was completely rebuilt in 1992 which saw the replacement of the lifts with escalators and the closure of the original 1901 entrance on City Road, replaced by a modern and much more spacious ticket hall on Islington High Street. 16/138</p><p>13/04/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Clapham_Common'>Clapham Common</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>Original sign at the entrance to Clapham Common station, Northern Line, on 20th May 2013. This opened in 1900 with the first extension of the City & South London Railway, the world's first deep-level tube line that had opened between King William Street and Stockwell in 1890. Not until 1926 was the line further extended south to Morden. The line then became known as the Morden-Edgware Line until 1937 when the LPTB renamed it the Northern Line, notwithstanding that a lengthy section of the line is in SOUTH London, as here at Clapham Common. One of London Transport's little jokes that has persisted to the present day. 17/138</p><p>20/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chorleywood'>Chorleywood</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chesham_Branch_Harrow_and_Rickmansworth_Railway'>Chesham Branch (Harrow and Rickmansworth Railway)</a></small></p><p>Chorleywood, owned by TfL and served by Metropolitan Line Amersham and Chesham trains and also National Rail Chiltern Trains services between Marylebone and Aylesbury Vale Parkway, looking towards London on a glorious 27th May 2013. Note the southbound Platform 2 sign that is still showing British Rail, 16 years after privatisation. 18/138</p><p>27/05/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bayswater'>Bayswater</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/South_Kensington_Extension,_Minories_Extension_Metropolitan_Railway'>South Kensington Extension, Minories Extension (Metropolitan Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Bayswater station, on 18th January 2014. This was opened by the Metropolitan Railway's extension from Praed Street Junction, Paddington to South Kensington on 1st October 1868 but for decades now has been served by the Circle Line and the Wimbledon to Edgware Road service of the District Line. On 24th December 1868, a new Company, the Metropolitan District Railway, opened the first section of its line from an end-on junction with the Metropolitan Railway at South Kensington as far as Westminster Bridge (renamed Westminster in 1907.) 19/138</p><p>18/01/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Marble_Arch'>Marble Arch</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_London_Railway'>Central London Railway</a></small></p><p>Gaudy murals at Marble Arch, seen from eastbound train of LUL 1992 stock waiting to depart with a Central Line service to Epping, on 18th January 2014. This station, situated in the heart of London's West End, was opened on 30th July 1900 with the first stage of the Central London Railway from Shepherd's Bush to Bank. Now part of the much extended Central Line to which it was renamed by the LPTB in 1937. 20/138</p><p>18/01/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Lambeth_North'>Lambeth North</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Baker_Street_and_Waterloo_Railway'>Baker Street and Waterloo Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of the LUL Bakerloo Line station at Lambeth North, on 22nd February 2014. This station was designed by Leslie W. Green, the Underground's Chief Architect of the Edwardian period who died in 1908 aged only 34. It opened as Kennington Road, the temporary southern terminus of the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway, on 10th March 1906. It was renamed Westminster Bridge Road on 5th August 1906, when the line was extended one stop to its current south-east London terminus at Elephant & Castle, and yet again to Lambeth North on 15th April 1917. The name 'Bakerloo' is a corruption of BAKER Street & WaterLOO Railway and a belated extension to Lewisham is now being studied and open to public consultation. 21/138</p><p>22/02/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Epping'>Epping</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/O/Ongar_Extension_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Ongar Extension (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of the unspoiled Epping station, opened by the Great Eastern Railway with the extension of the branch from Loughton to Ongar on 24th April 1865 and first served by LUL Central Line trains on 25th September 1949 with electrification from Loughton, seen here on 7th June 2014. Electrification was extended to Ongar in 1957 but this section closed in 1994 and most is now the heritage Epping/Ongar Railway. This doesn't run quite as far as Epping (at the moment) so, standing proudly outside the station, is vintage RT 1700 offering a service to the line at North Weald before continuing on through Ongar and then all the way to Shenfield via Brentwood. This follows most of the route of the old 339 bus service I used frequently as a boy but which terminated at Warley and not Shenfield. If you like vintage bus rides through the Essex countryside, this is the service for you! 22/138</p><p>07/06/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Snaresbrook'>Snaresbrook</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Snaresbrook, LUL Central Line, looking towards central London, on 27th July 2014. This station, the prettiest in east London, was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 22nd August 1856 and first served by tube trains on 14th December 1947 with the extension of electrification from Leytonstone to Woodford. A bay platform once existed on the down side but was closed in 1949 and is now part of the car park. When I still lived at home with my parents and first started work, I went through this station every day on my daily commute from Loughton to Holborn in the then LU 1962 tube stock for about five years until I flew the nest. 23/138</p><p>27/07/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Snaresbrook'>Snaresbrook</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Eastern Counties Railway</a></small></p><p>The splendid Eastern Counties Railway entrance building to Snaresbrook station in east London, now part of the LUL Central Line. View south east from Station Approach on 27th July 2014. [Ref query 18 January 2019] 24/138</p><p>27/07/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wanstead'>Wanstead</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Line_Extension_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Central Line Extension (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>The rather plain exterior of Wanstead station, opened on 14th December 1947 with the Central Line extension from Leytonstone to Newbury Park, on 27th July 2014. The tunnels on this extension were complete before the start of World War Two and were converted into an underground factory for the manufacturing of aircraft components by the Plessey Company throughout the duration of the war. 25/138</p><p>27/07/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Buckhurst_Hill'>Buckhurst Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Buckhurst Hill station, Essex, LUL Central Line, looking towards central London on 10th October 2014. This line was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway from Stratford to Loughton on 22nd August 1856, becoming part of the Great Eastern Railway in 1862. The GER extended from Loughton to Ongar on 24th April 1865 and in 1892 opened the present station, just north of the original which was closed. The 1856 building can be seen in the far background and it has a short piece of low platform in front of it. Between the two was Queens Road level crossing, which was abolished when LU electrification was extended from Woodford to Loughton on 21st November 1948. Growing up in Loughton and still living at home with my parents, for the first few years after leaving school I travelled through this station every weekday on the LU 1962 stock trains when commuting to and from Holborn for work. 26/138</p><p>10/10/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Buckhurst_Hill'>Buckhurst Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Buckhurst Hill station in Essex, opened by the GER in 1892, replacing the earlier Eastern Counties station of 1856 and seen here looking towards Epping on 10th October 2014. Central Line tube trains began running through here when they were extended from Woodford to Loughton on 21st November 1948. Growing up in Loughton, I would pass through this station on my daily commute to Holborn and back and joining the train at Loughton station was always guaranteed a seat, not so easy for the homeward journey. In those days, the Central Line was in the hands of 1962 stock with their bay seating. These were much preferable to the 1992 stock now running on the line which, like other present day LUL trains, demonstrates TfL's whole-hearted mania for all longitudinal seating which I dislike intensely. 27/138</p><p>10/10/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kentish_Town_LUL'>Kentish Town [LUL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Kentish Town, LUL Northern Line, on 12th August 2015. This station was opened on the Highgate branch of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway on 22nd June 1907 and has a connection with the National Rail station on the Midland Main Line, out of view on the left. This is another of the many deep-level tube stations on the London Underground designed by Leslie W. Green who died in 1908 at the tragically early age of 34. 28/138</p><p>12/08/2015<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Golders_Green'>Golders Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Golders Green station, LUL Northern Line, in pouring rain on 24th January 2016. The station is an interchange with local buses that gather on the forecourt. It was opened by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway on 22nd June 1907, which was extended out to Edgware by 1924. After 1926, when the line also reached Morden in Surrey, it became known as the Morden-Edgware Line until 1937 when it was renamed the Northern Line, notwithstanding that a long section of the line is in SOUTH London! Obviously one of London Transport's little jokes that remains to this day. 29/138</p><p>24/01/2016<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Croxley'>Croxley</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Watford_Branch_Metropolitan_Railway_and_London_and_North_Eastern_Railway_Joint'>Watford Branch (Metropolitan Railway and London and North Eastern Railway Joint)</a></small></p><p>The attractive station entrance at Croxley on the LUL's short Metropolitan Line branch to Watford, on 22nd May 2017. This line was a latecomer to the outer London network, not opening until 2nd November 1925 as a joint venture between the Metropolitan and LNER and Croxley station was originally called Croxley Green. To avoid confusion with the LNWR Croxley Green station, it was renamed on 23rd May 1949. The branch runs from a triangular junction between Moor Park and Rickmansworth with originally Metropolitan trains taking the south curve toward Moor Park and on into London (as they still do) while a shuttle service of LNER trains operated between Watford and Rickmansworth over the north curve but these ceased in 1934 after only nine years, since when the north curve has only been used by empty stock workings and occasional steam specials, apart from a few ex-Chesham public trains at the beginning and end of the day. (I am indebted to Bob McIntyre for this last piece of information.) The scheme to link this line to the by then disused Croxley Green branch, relay as far as Watford High Street and run Metropolitan Line trains into Watford Junction, which would have seen the 1925 Metropolitan terminus closed, was talked about for decades and was eventually given the go-ahead, only for this to be cancelled a year or so later.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2195</a> 30/138</p><p>22/05/2017<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Holloway_Road'>Holloway Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern,_Piccadilly_and_Brompton_Railway'>Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Holloway Road station, opened by the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway (now part of the much extended LUL Piccadilly Line), seen on 22nd September 2018. On the right can just be seen the GNR viaduct of 1850 into and out of King's Cross. This station opened with the line on 15th December 1906 and the initials GNPBR can be seen on the right side of the building. The only entrance to the station nowadays is that behind the bus stop. During the London Blitz of WWII my late mother, when a child, and grandparents sheltered from the bombs in this station although Mum was later evacuated to Darlington. 31/138</p><p>22/09/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Angel'>Angel</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>Going down the first of two escalators at Angel station, LUL Northern Line, on 30th November 2018. This first of the escalators is now the longest on the London Underground, following the rebuilding of the station, replacement of the lifts with escalators and re-siting of the entrance from City Road to Islington High Street, in 1992. Prior to then, the longest escalator on the Underground had been at Leicester Square station (Northern and Piccadilly Lines). 32/138</p><p>30/11/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Borough'>Borough</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>View down the spiral staircase (with 102 steps) at Borough station, LUL Northern Line, on 1st January 2019. Only to be used in an emergency, on this occasion my friend also named David and I had no choice but to walk down as the lifts were out of action so that, in TfL's view, presumably constitutes an emergency. Although as it was just after 8.30 p.m. on New Year's Day, we were the only passengers using the station at that time. This is the most northerly of the stations of the original City & South London Railway that opened on 18th December 1890 between King William Street and Stockwell, another 'first' for London being the world's first deep-level underground line. (King William Street station was abandoned and replaced by Bank when the line was extended north to Moorgate on 24th February 1900 via new tunnels diverging from the original north of Borough station, however the old terminus served as an air raid shelter during World War Two.) 33/138</p><p>01/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Borough'>Borough</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southwark_Subway'>London and Southwark Subway</a></small></p><p>Foot of the spiral staircase at Borough station, LUL Northern Line, on 1st January 2019. For the view from the top of the stairway see image <a href='/img/68/650/index.html'>68650</a>. 34/138</p><p>01/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Borough'>Borough</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southwark_Subway'>London and Southwark Subway</a></small></p><p>The northbound platform at Borough station, LUL Northern Line, looking south, on 1st January 2019. This is one of the original stations on the world's first deep-level Underground, the City & South London Railway (originally to have been called the City of London & Southwark Subway) that opened on 18th December 1890. The station and line closed for two years between 1922 and 1924 to enable the tunnels to be enlarged (with replacement bus services running) and at the same time, the line was connected to the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, opened on 22nd June 1906, at Camden Town in the north and at Kennington in the south. When reopened in 1924, the combined line became known as the Morden-Edgware Line until 1937 when somebody at the LPTB decided to rename it the Northern Line, notwithstanding that a large portion of the route lies in SOUTH London! Obviously one of London Transport's little jokes which has remained to the present day. 35/138</p><p>01/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Mornington_Crescent'>Mornington Crescent</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Mornington Crescent station, now part of LUL Northern Line, opened on 22nd June 1907 and one of many 'tube' stations designed by Leslie W. Green, the London Underground's Chief Architect of the Edwardian period who died in 1908 aged only 34, on 5th January 2019. 36/138</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Mornington_Crescent'>Mornington Crescent</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Ticket hall at Mornington Crescent station, LUL Northern Line, on 5th January 2019. The station was closed between 1992 and 1998 for refurbishing and rebuilding of the lifts. 37/138</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Mornington_Crescent'>Mornington Crescent</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Subterranean passageway from foot of lift shafts to platforms at Mornington Crescent station, LUL Northern Line, on 5th January 2019. 38/138</p><p>05/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Farringdon'>Farringdon</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Entrance to Farringdon station, as rebuilt in 1923, on 22nd January 2019. This was the original city terminus of the world's first Underground, the Metropolitan Railway, opened on 10th January 1863 as Farringdon Street. At the time of its 1923 rebuilding, it was also renamed Farringdon & High Holborn (which can still be seen engraved on the wall on the right) but the suffix was dropped in 1936, which is somewhat odd as there is no actual district called Farringdon. The station is actually in the district of Clerkenwell and there have been suggestions over the years to rename it but, so far, to no avail. 39/138</p><p>22/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/North_Ealing'>North Ealing</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_South_Harrow_Railway'>Ealing and South Harrow Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of North Ealing station on 9th February 2019. This was opened by the Metropolitan District Railway on 23rd June 1903 when trains began running from a connection with the Ealing Broadway line at Hanger Lane Junction as far as Park Royal & Twyford Abbey in connection with that year's Royal Agricultural Show. Five days later trains were extended to South Harrow. North Ealing was the only station on this line not to be rebuilt in Holden style for the takeover by Piccadilly Line tube trains in 1933 and remains today as a pleasant example of a turn-of-the-19th/20th Century District station. (The original Park Royal & Twyford Abbey station was re-sited to the south in 1931 with an entrance on the A40 Western Avenue. The new station was called Park Royal (Hanger Hill) but the suffix was later dropped.) 40/138</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/North_Ealing'>North Ealing</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_South_Harrow_Railway'>Ealing and South Harrow Railway</a></small></p><p>Original Metropolitan District Railway sign to the Uxbridge platform at North Harrow, now the Piccadilly Line, on 9th February 2019. 41/138</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/North_Ealing'>North Ealing</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_South_Harrow_Railway'>Ealing and South Harrow Railway</a></small></p><p>View from the Uxbridge platform across to the Cockfosters platform at North Ealing, opened as the Ealing & South Harrow Railway section of the Metropolitan District Railway in 1903 and part of the Piccadilly Line since 1932, on 9th February 2019. The footbridge is a very distinctive feature. This is the only station on the Ealing & South Harrow line that was not rebuilt for when tube trains took over. 42/138</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Acton'>West Acton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_Shepherds_Bush_Railway'>Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway</a></small></p><p>Some cosmetic work is urgently needed on the interior of the entrance hall of West Acton, on the LUL Central Line, as seen here on 9th February 2019. It is a disgrace. 43/138</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Acton'>West Acton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_Shepherds_Bush_Railway'>Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway</a></small></p><p>The shabby interior of the entrance hall at West Acton, LUL Central Line, on 9th February 2019. 44/138</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Clapham_North'>Clapham North</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>Clapham North, Northern Line, looking north from the steps on 16th February 2019. There were originally four stations of this type, with a narrow island platform in a single tunnel, all on what was originally the City & South London Railway. Only two remain, here at Clapham North and also at Clapham Common, the next stop south. That at Euston (Bank branch) disappeared during the construction of the Victoria Line in the 1960s and a new station at Angel was opened in 1992. 45/138</p><p>16/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Cockfosters'>Cockfosters</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>The ticket hall at Cockfosters, terminus of the LUL PIccadilly Line, opened in 1933, on 18th April 2019. The passimeter office is no longer in use but has been retained as a feature of the station. 46/138</p><p>18/04/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Hyde_Park_Corner'>Hyde Park Corner</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern,_Piccadilly_and_Brompton_Railway'>Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway</a></small></p><p>Original tiled wall sign on the eastbound platform at Hyde Park Corner, Piccadilly Line, dating from the line and station's opening in 1906, on 6th May 2019. For many years, these signs at this and other deep-level London Underground 'tube' stations were covered up by advertising hoardings but those have happily now been removed. These also include stations that were later renamed, e.g. also on the Piccadilly Line at Arsenal, renamed in 1932 after some football club, apparantly, the original 1906 tiled wall name Gillespie Road is now also back on display. 47/138</p><p>06/05/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Blackhorse_Road_LTPB'>Blackhorse Road [LTPB]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/V/Victoria_Line_London_Transport_Board'>Victoria Line (London Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>A view down the escalator at the LUL Victoria Line station at Blackhorse Road, on 12th August 2019. This opened with the first stage of the line from Walthamstow Central to Highbury & Islington on 1st September 1968 and down which I travelled on that very first day. When opened, this was the only station on the new line that did not have a direct connection to a British Rail station. This was rectified when the separate 1894 station, across the road on the Gospel Oak to Barking line was closed and re-sited with new platforms on the west side of the road bridge, allowing direct interchange with the Victoria Line, on 14th December 1981. 48/138</p><p>12/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Blackhorse_Road_LTPB'>Blackhorse Road [LTPB]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/V/Victoria_Line_London_Transport_Board'>Victoria Line (London Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>One of the features of the new Victoria Line, as it was in 1968, (hard to believe its more than 50 years now since the first section opened) was a series of murals at each station, repeated the length of the platform, that had some kind of link, however tenuous, with the station name. This one at Blackhorse Road is fairly obvious and dates from the station's opening, looking towards Walthamstow Central on 12th August 2019. 49/138</p><p>12/08/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Archway'>Archway</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>A view down the spiral staircase at Archway station, LUL Northern Line, on 14th September 2019. With 113 steps, it is supposed to be used only in an emergency. However, during Autumn 2019, there is no down escalator at this station while renewals take place, so passengers must make their way down the staircase. Great fun in the morning peaks, no doubt. 50/138</p><p>14/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Colindale'>Colindale</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Edgware Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Colindale station, originally opened on 18th August 1924 on the Edgware branch of what became the Northern Line in 1937, on 14th September 2019. According to an item in the October 2019 issue of 'Today's Railways' magazine, Barnet Council has approved a £22 million rebuild of the station with work expected to start in 2021 and be completed in 2022. But as with Crossrail, it would be wise not to hold your breath. 51/138</p><p>14/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Colindale'>Colindale</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Edgware Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Colindale station, LU Northern Line, on the afternoon of Saturday, 14th September 2019. T.E. Lawrence, (better known as Lawrence of Arabia), used this station when he was stationed at Hendon Aerodrome in the late 1920s. 52/138</p><p>14/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Mill_Hill_East'>Mill Hill East</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware,_Highgate_and_London_Railway'>Edgware, Highgate and London Railway</a></small></p><p>Mill Hill East, opened by the Edgware, Highgate & London Railway (later absorbed by the GNR) in 1867 and a London Underground station since 1941. Now mainly served by shuttle Northern Line tube trains from Finchley Central, with through trains only in peak hours, and seen on 14th September 2019. (Since writing that caption, the shuttle service has been abolished and Mill Hill East now has through services to and from central and south London throughout the day, 7 days a week, concurrently with the opening of the Battersea Power Station branch in south London on 20th September 2021.) 53/138</p><p>14/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Mill_Hill_East'>Mill Hill East</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware,_Highgate_and_London_Railway'>Edgware, Highgate and London Railway</a></small></p><p>View from the west end of the single platform at Mill Hill East station, LUL Northern Line, towards the abandoned section to Edgware, on 14th September 2019. The line opened throughout from Seven Sisters Road (renamed Finsbury Park in 1869) to Edgware in 1867 with branches from Finchley (Church End) (now Finchley Central) to High Barnet opened in 1872 and from Highgate to Alexandra Palace in 1873. Under the 1935 New Works scheme, the Finchley to Edgware line was to be doubled with both Mill Hill East and Mill Hill (The Hale) receiving an extra platform, plus a brand new extension north of Edgware to Bushey Heath. Work began on these and in order to facilitate the doubling of the Finchley to Edgware line, passenger services were temporarily withdrawn in 1939. On 18th May 1941, tube trains were extended on one track only from newly renamed Finchley Central to Mill Hill East, principally to serve the barracks, but the rest of the scheme was cancelled after 1945 and trains never again ran between Mill Hill East and Edgware, though the line remained open for freight until 6th June 1964. 54/138</p><p>14/09/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Embankment_LPTB'>Embankment [LPTB]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_District_Railway'>Metropolitan District Railway</a></small></p><p>South side entrance to Embankment Underground station, known as Charing Cross until 1979, on 7th December 2019. Originally opened by the Metropolitan District Railway with its extension from Westminster Bridge (now Westminster) to Blackfriars in May 1870 where the tracks and platforms are shared between Circle and District Line trains. The deep level lines, now known as the Bakerloo and Northern, did not arrive here until Edwardian times. 55/138</p><p>07/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Snaresbrook'>Snaresbrook</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Snaresbrook station, on the eastern section of the LUL Central Line, originally opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1856, looking towards Epping, on Friday 13th December 2019. On the left there was once a bay platform that was removed in 1949, two years after the line was taken over by London Transport. The goods yard, now a car park, survived until 1966, reached by BR steam trains via the original section of the ECR line between Stratford (Loughton Branch Junction) and Leyton and for a further four years was served by early morning DMU staff trains which ran over the electrified tracks as far as Loughton but did not go on to Epping nor round the Hainault Loop. After these ceased, the track between Loughton Branch Junction and Leyton rusted over and was removed in 1973, severing the link between the eastern part of the Central Line and the then BR network. Much of its site has been taken by the M11 Link Road at a lower level, bulldozing part of the embankment away, and which has done more damage to the east London landscape than the railway ever did. 56/138</p><p>13/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Snaresbrook'>Snaresbrook</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Snaresbrook station in east London on Friday the 13th December 2019. This station was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 22nd August 1856 and first served by London Underground Central Line trains on 14th December 1947.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2217</a> 57/138</p><p>13/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harrow_and_Wealdstone'>Harrow and Wealdstone</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Birmingham_Railway'>London and Birmingham Railway</a></small></p><p>Looking across the platforms at Harrow & Wealdstone station on 18 December 2019. View from 710257 calling with a London Overground Watford Junction to Euston service.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2219</a> 58/138</p><p>18/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Finsbury_Park_GNPBR'>Finsbury Park [GNPBR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern,_Piccadilly_and_Brompton_Railway'>Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway</a></small></p><p>South side entrance to Finsbury Park Underground station on Seven Sisters Road, on 29th December 2019. This is now open only on weekdays between 06.45 and 22.00. Before the mechanical rottweilers - sorry ticket gates - were installed just inside the entrance, non passengers wanting to get from one side of the station to the other could use this subway as a short cut. Now they are faced with a lengthy walk around three quarters of the station site, which is also an interchange with National Rail services. 59/138</p><p>29/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Finsbury_Park_GNPBR'>Finsbury Park [GNPBR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern,_Piccadilly_and_Brompton_Railway'>Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway</a></small></p><p>New north side entrance to Finsbury Park Underground station, LUL Piccadilly and Victoria Lines, on 29th December 2019. This opened on 17th December 2019, almost a year late and there is still currently no direct access to and from Wells Terrace Bus station. Since 2016 when the original north side entrance closed, bus passengers have had to make a long detour under Stroud Green Road bridge to the Station Place entrance. From what I could see, when the hoarding (behind me when I took this photo) is removed, there will still be a short walk to Wells Terrace for bus interchange (at the moment, a longer walk via Fonthill Road is required) whereas the old north side entrance led directly to and from the bus station to the tube lines. The long sloping subway of the old entrance with its original Edwardian tiles has disappeared for good. 60/138</p><p>29/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Covent_Garden'>Covent Garden</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern,_Piccadilly_and_Brompton_Railway'>Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior (exit only) of Covent Garden station, LUL Piccadilly Line, on 7th March 2020. Opened by the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway with the original section of the line from Finsbury Park to Hammersmith on 15th December 1906, it was designed by Leslie W. Green, the London Underground's Chief Architect of the Edwardian period who died in 1908, aged only 34. In 1958, London Transport (as it then was) wanted to close this station completely but it was reprieved, although it was closed on Sundays for many years, but is now open full time again. It is only 280 yards from Leicester Square station, the next Piccadilly Line station when heading towards Heathrow or Uxbridge. 61/138</p><p>07/03/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Brent_Cross'>Brent Cross</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Edgware Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Brent Cross, LUL Northern Line, looking north towards Edgware on 26th August 2020. On the left is the formation of the former loop (with a similar one on the southbound side) which in early days allowed semi-fast trains to overtake here. These semi-fasts ceased around the time the LPTB was formed in 1933 and the tracks were removed. Highfield Avenue bridge immediately south of the station still demonstrates the wider line at this location but then narrows down to a two-track railway. 62/138</p><p>26/08/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Brent_Cross'>Brent Cross</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Edgware_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Edgware Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Brent Cross, LUL Northern Line, on 26th August 2020. This station opened on 13th November 1923 as Brent with the first stage of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway Edgware extension from Golders Green to Hendon Central, completed to Edgware the following year. The line then became known as the Morden-Edgware Line until 1937 when it was renamed Northern Line, even though a large section lies in south London! Brent was renamed Brent Cross on 20th July 1976, concurrent with the opening of the Brent Cross shopping centre, the first of its kind in the UK. The station is now a Grade II Listed Building. 63/138</p><p>26/08/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Turnpike_Lane'>Turnpike Lane</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Original Tickets & Trains sign, with more modern sign above, at one of the stairwell entrances to Turnpike Lane, LUL Piccadilly Line, on 16th September 2020. This station, designed by Dr. Charles Holden (1875-1960), the Underground's Chief Architect between the two World Wars, opened on 19th September 1932 with the first stage of the Cockfosters extension from Finsbury Park to Arnos Grove. 64/138</p><p>16/09/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Woodside_Park'>Woodside Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/High_Barnet_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>High Barnet Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>The GNR origins of Woodside Park station are apparent in this view of the building on 24th April 2021. Originally opened in 1872 on that company's High Barnet branch, it became a London Underground Northern Line station 68 years later in 1940. 65/138</p><p>24/04/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Woodside_Park'>Woodside Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/High_Barnet_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>High Barnet Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Woodside Park station, now part of the LUL Northern Line but originally opened by the GNR on 1st April 1872, looking north towards High Barnet on 24th April 2021. The extension of tube trains from East Finchley to High Barnet on 1st April 1940 and from Finchley Central to Mill Hill East on 18th May 1941 were the only parts of the GNR Northern Heights lines to be successfully converted to London Underground tube trains operation as envisaged in the 1935 New Works Plan. 66/138</p><p>24/04/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/High_Barnet'>High Barnet</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/High_Barnet_Branch_Great_Northern_Railway'>High Barnet Branch (Great Northern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of High Barnet station, LUL Northern Line, with the original GNR building in the background, on 24th April 2021. Passengers disembarking at this terminus are confronted with a steep climb up a footpath and even then the climb is not over as the gradient is just as steep along the street into the town centre. 67/138</p><p>24/04/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wood_Green'>Wood Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Wood Green station, Piccadilly Line, on 11th May 2021. This was opened with the first stage of the Cockfosters extension from Finsbury Park to Arnos Grove on 19th September 1932 and designed by Dr. Charles Holden (1875-1960), the Underground's Chief Architect between the two world wars. This, however, is where the money started to run out: the first two stations on the extension at Manor House and Turnpike Lane all had stairwell entrances to the street corners whereas Wood Green is boxed into a corner site without pedestrian subways to the other corners of the crossroads, on the north-east side of which it is situated. 68/138</p><p>11/05/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bond_Street_LTB'>Bond Street [LTB]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/J/Jubilee_Line_London_Transport_Board'>Jubilee Line (London Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>Stratford-bound platform at Bond Street, in the heart of London's West End, on 29th May 2021. This section of the Jubilee Line opened in 1979 and is an interchange with the Central Line that had opened here 79 years earlier. Eventually, and goodness knows when, Bond Street will also become a Crossrail station but, even when that opens, there are mutterings that its Bond Street station will still not be ready on opening day and may have to open later. 69/138</p><p>29/05/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Mornington_Crescent'>Mornington Crescent</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Mornington Crescent on 5th June 2021. This station was opened on 22nd June 1907 with the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway that now forms part of the much extended Northern Line. In 1958 London Transport wanted to close it permanently but it was reprieved, although from 1970 it was closed at weekends for several decades. It is now open full-time again, to relieve pressure on nearby Camden Town station whose traffic has grown enormously in recent years with the popularity of Camden Market. 70/138</p><p>05/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Waterloo'>Waterloo</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Waterloo_and_City_Electric_Railway'>Waterloo and City Electric Railway</a></small></p><p>An announcement on LBC Radio on 7th June 2021 informed listeners that the Waterloo & City Line would reopen that day, having closed with the first covid lockdown in March 2020. What LBC did NOT say is that it would only be open in peak hours as I found out when I was confronted by gates and this notice at Waterloo. With time to kill before the beginning of the evening peak at 15.23, I had a short trip to Wandsworth Town and back, from the former Waterloo International Eurostar terminus, now reopened as platforms 20 to 24 of the National Rail Waterloo station. 71/138</p><p>07/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Camden_Town'>Camden Town</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>East side exterior of Camden Town station on Kentish Town Road on 22nd June 2021, the 114th Anniversary of its opening with the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway on 22nd June 1907 and which now forms part of the much-extended Northern Line. This side of the station is now used for entry only, passengers leaving by the west side on Camden High Street. 72/138</p><p>22/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chalk_Farm'>Chalk Farm</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Chalk Farm station, LUL Northern Line, unusually triangular in shape due to its siting between Adelaide Road on the left and Haverstock Hill on the right. In the background on the right, a so-called New Routemaster is descending on trans-Thames route 168 from Hampstead Heath, South End Green to Old Kent Road. This view is on 22nd June 2021, the 114th Anniversary of the station's opening as part of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (renamed Northern Line by the LPTB in 1937) and designed by Leslie W. Green who died in 1908 aged only 34. 73/138</p><p>22/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Belsize_Park'>Belsize Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Belsize Park station, Northern Line, on 22nd June 2021, the 114th Anniversary of its opening as part of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway and designed by Leslie W. Green. 74/138</p><p>22/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Hampstead'>Hampstead</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Hampstead station, LUL Northern Line, originally to have been called Heath Street, seen here on 22nd June 2021, the 114th Anniversary of its opening as part of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway. The Heath Street side on the left is now used for exit only with passengers entering from the Hampstead High Street side on the right and with its platforms 192 ft. below the ground, reached via lifts, this is the deepest station on the London Underground. It is another of the splendid deep-level 'tube' stations in ox blood red designed by Leslie W. Green, the Underground's Chief Architect of the Edwardian era who died in 1908, aged only 34. 75/138</p><p>22/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Becontree'>Becontree</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking_to_Upminster_Quadrupling_London,_Midland_and_Scottish_Railway'>Barking to Upminster Quadrupling (London, Midland and Scottish Railway)</a></small></p><p>Becontree, looking west towards London, on 24th June 2021. This replaced the LTSR Gale Street Halt that had been opened in 1926 and is the only four-platform station built when the LMS provided two extra tracks alongside the LTSR tracks from Barking to Upminster in 1932 for the exclusive use of District Line trains. These were eventually transferred to London Transport in 1969. Main line trains from Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness, however, had ceased to call in 1962 when the line was electrified, resulting in the platforms on those tracks becoming disused. These are visible on the left and now fenced off from the surviving District Line platforms. The dark maroon colour scheme of the canopies is a nice touch, as it acts as a memorial to the London, Midland & Scottish Railway who originally opened the station nearly 90 years ago. 76/138</p><p>24/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/U/Upminster_Bridge'>Upminster Bridge</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking_to_Upminster_Quadrupling_London,_Midland_and_Scottish_Railway'>Barking to Upminster Quadrupling (London, Midland and Scottish Railway)</a></small></p><p>The history of Upminster Bridge station, LU District Line, on the wall of the westbound platform, seen here on 24th June 2021. It is slightly misleading as the LMSR's Southend services were not electrified in the 1930s, they had to wait until 1962 in BR Eastern Region days, but the LMSR did provide the extra set of tracks, electrified from the outset, between Barking and Upminster for LU District Line trains in 1932. And all the stations between Bromley-by-Bow and Upminster remained in main line ownership until 1969 as part of British Rail Eastern Region (apart from Barking and Upminster which are still part of the National network), even though some of those stations had not been served by BR trains for seven years while others, like Upminster Bridge, were never served by them at all. 77/138</p><p>25/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Plaistow'>Plaistow</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Campbell_Road_to_Barking_Quadrupling_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Campbell Road to Barking Quadrupling (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>Despite BR trains ceasing to call at Plaistow in 1962, leaving it with two disused platforms, out of view on the right, these Eastern Region UP and Down signs at the foot of the stairwell to the surviving westbound LUL District and Hammersmith & City Lines platforms survive, 53 years after the station passed from BR to London Transport control. The station had remained in BR ownership until 1969. Similar Up and Down signs are still in situ at the top of this stairwell and at the top and bottom of the stairwell to and from the surviving eastbound LU platform. This view is on 2nd July 2021. 78/138</p><p>02/07/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bow_Road'>Bow Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Whitechapel_and_Bow_Railway_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway_and_District_Railway'>Whitechapel and Bow Railway (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and District Railway)</a></small></p><p>Bow Road, opened by the Whitechapel & Bow Railway on 2nd June 1902, looking west on 8th July 2021. This station is at the foot of the steep incline down from the surface sections of the line and is partly in the open and partly in tunnel. The platforms can be seen curving round as they go into the tunnel beneath Bow Road and its continuation Mile End Road too to Whitechapel, where they briefly surface again. The tracks are shared between District and Hammersmith & City Lines trains but this is NOT a tube line as it was built on the cut-and-cover method and runs just below the surface among the mains and drains. 79/138</p><p>08/07/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bow_Road'>Bow Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Whitechapel_and_Bow_Railway_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway_and_District_Railway'>Whitechapel and Bow Railway (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and District Railway)</a></small></p><p>A short distance west of the disused ex-GER Bow Road station is the still open LUL District and Hammersmith & City Lines station, seen here on 8th July 2021. This was opened on 2nd June 1902 by the Whitechapel & Bow Railway that extended District trains east from Whitechapel to a connection with the LT&SR at Cambell Road Junction, west of Bromley-by-Bow. This station entrance is now a Grade 1 Listed Structure, identical almost to Stepney Green station on the same line, but which is not listed. 80/138</p><p>11/07/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Plaistow'>Plaistow</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Campbell_Road_to_Barking_Quadrupling_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Campbell Road to Barking Quadrupling (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>Despite the fact that Plaistow station in east London has had only London Underground services since 1962, when main line trains ceased to call following the electrification of the ex-LTSR, this British Railways Eastern Region Ticket Office sign was still inside the station 59 years later, seen here on 13th July 2021. 81/138</p><p>13/07/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Whitechapel'>Whitechapel</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_London_Railway'>East London Railway</a></small></p><p>New walkway at Whitechapel, from a spacious new concourse to the Overground platforms, recently opened, looking north on 27th August 2021. The whole station had been marred by hoardings while the work was going on but these have now been removed, in readiness for when the station becomes an interchange with Crossrail (to be reached via escalators) that is now scheduled for spring 2022. With so many delays since the setback with the original opening date of December 2018, Londoners are not holding their breath. 82/138</p><p>27/08/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Whitechapel'>Whitechapel</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/East_London_Railway'>East London Railway</a></small></p><p>The spacious new concourse above the District and Hammersmith & City Lines at Whitechapel, looking from the top of the steps from the new walkway to the Overground platforms (here below those of the Underground) towards the steps and lift that lead down to a revamped entrance, on 27th August 2021. To the right, steps and lifts lead to the new island platform (on surface) used by Underground trains. The almost wholesale rebuilding of this station is in connection with its forthcoming interchange with Crossrail which will be reached via escalators when it does eventually open. 83/138</p><p>27/08/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Whitechapel_Metro'>Whitechapel [Metro]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Whitechapel_Line_Metropolitan_Railway_and_Metropolitan_District_Railway_Joint'>Whitechapel Line (Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan District Railway Joint)</a></small></p><p>The new circulating area at the Underground platforms at Whitechapel, looking east, on 27th August 2021. Originally two narrow island platforms, served by District and Hammersmith & City Line trains, a new single wide island platform has been created by linking the far outer edges of each over the site of the two lifted tracks that previously ran through the centre. These changes, recently revealed after being stuck behind hoardings for a long time, are in connection with Whitechapel's forthcoming role as an interchange with Crossrail, now due to open in spring 2022. 84/138</p><p>27/08/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/South_Woodford'>South Woodford</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>LU roundel at South Woodford, east London, seen from a Central Line service from Epping to West Ruislip on the evening of Sunday, 5th September 2021. This station was opened as George Lane by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1856 and renamed South Woodford (George Lane) by the LNER in 1937. It was first served by Underground trains when electrification was extended from Leytonstone to Woodford on 14th December 1947. According to Alan A. Jackson and Desmond F. Croome in their excellent tome 'Rails Through the Clay', the station lost the George Lane suffix in 1948 but some roundels, like this one, are still bearing the legend over seventy years later. (When I still lived with my parents and first started work after leaving school, I went through this station every day on my daily commute between Loughton, where we lived, and Holborn.) 85/138</p><p>05/09/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Battersea_Power_Station_Northern_Line'>Battersea Power Station [Northern Line]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_Line_Extension_TfL'>Northern Line Extension [TfL]</a></small></p><p>The concourse towards the escalators at Battersea Power Station terminus of the new Northern Line branch from Kennington, seen here in the morning on the Opening Day, Monday, 20th September 2021. On the right, a train of LU 1995 stock (that I travelled on from Archway) is waiting to return to High Barnet. 86/138</p><p>20/09/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Battersea_Power_Station_Northern_Line'>Battersea Power Station [Northern Line]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_Line_Extension_TfL'>Northern Line Extension [TfL]</a></small></p><p>First Day of passenger services to Battersea Power Station station, terminus of the new LU Northern Line branch from Kennington (here in south-west London), on Monday, 20th September 2021. 87/138</p><p>20/09/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Nine_Elms_Northern_Line'>Nine Elms [Northern Line]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_Line_Extension_TfL'>Northern Line Extension [TfL]</a></small></p><p>A nice welcome from TfL staff at the new Nine Elms station on the LU Northern Line Battersea Power Station branch from Kennington, on the First Day of passenger services, Monday, 20th September 2021. 88/138</p><p>20/09/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Nine_Elms_Northern_Line'>Nine Elms [Northern Line]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_Line_Extension_TfL'>Northern Line Extension [TfL]</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Nine Elms station, the only intermediate station on the new LU Northern Line branch (here in south London) from Kennington to Battersea Power Station, on its First Day of passenger services, Monday, 20th September 2021. After 173 years, this station has put the district of Nine Elms back on the passenger railway map of London following the extension from the original 1838 Nine Elms terminus of the London & Southampton Railway to Waterloo in 1848. After only 10 years as a passenger station, Nine Elms became a goods station and motive power depot but closed in 1967 and the site is now occupied by the New Covent Garden Market. 89/138</p><p>20/09/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/Nine_Elms_Northern_Line'>Nine Elms [Northern Line]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_Line_Extension_TfL'>Northern Line Extension [TfL]</a></small></p><p>Nine Elms station, looking towards Battersea Power Station, on the new LU Northern Line branch from Kennington, on the First Day of passenger services, Monday, 20th September 2021. 90/138</p><p>20/09/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Battersea_Power_Station_Northern_Line'>Battersea Power Station [Northern Line]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_Line_Extension_TfL'>Northern Line Extension [TfL]</a></small></p><p>The sub-surface ticket hall above the platforms at the new Northern Line branch terminus at Battersea Power Station, on the afternoon of 26th October 2021. Less busy than it was on opening day five weeks earlier, 20th September 2021. 91/138</p><p>26/10/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/O/Oxford_Circus_CL'>Oxford Circus [CL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_London_Railway'>Central London Railway</a></small></p><p>Original exterior of Oxford Circus station, designed by Leslie W. Green (1874-1908) for the Central London Railway, opened on 3rd July 1900 and seen here on 28th October 2021. The station became an interchange with the Bakerloo Line in 1906 and was completely rebuilt below ground and enlarged for the Victoria Line which arrived here on 7th March 1969. (This view is through the lower windows of a TFL bus on route 98 to Willesden Garage that my friends and I travelled on as far as Marble Arch.) 92/138</p><p>28/10/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Battersea_Power_Station_Northern_Line'>Battersea Power Station [Northern Line]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/Northern_Line_Extension_TfL'>Northern Line Extension [TfL]</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Battersea Power Station, terminus of the new Northern Line branch from Kennington, seen from across the road with the former power station in the background, on 13th November 2021. This latest addition to the London Underground had opened seven weeks earlier on 20th September 2021. 93/138</p><p>13/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Archway'>Archway</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross,_Euston_and_Hampstead_Railway'>Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway</a></small></p><p>Archway station, Northern Line, looking north on 20th November 2021. This opened as Highgate in 1907, the terminus of a branch from Camden Town of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway and was renamed in 1939 when the line was extended to the surface at East Finchley. Tube trains were extended over former LNER lines, replacing steam, to High Barnet in 1940 and from Finchley Central to Mill Hill East in 1941. The rest of the Northern Line 'Northern Heights' extensions were never completed. Until 20th September 2021, the Mill Hill East branch had just a one-stop shuttle service to and from Finchley Central, supplemented by a few through peak hour trains, but when the new Northern Line branch to Battersea Power Station opened on that day, this was abolished and Mill Hill East now has through trains to and from central and south London all day, seven days a week. As can be seen on the indicator board in this view at Archway. 94/138</p><p>20/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Angel'>Angel</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>The 1992 entrance on Islington High Street to Angel station on the Northern Line, which replaced the original City & South London Railway entrance of 1901 on City Road which still stands (<a href='/img/77/20/index.html'>77020</a>), seen here on 20th November 2021. The entire station was rebuilt at the same time with escalators replacing lifts and, as a result, Angel now has the longest escalator on the London Underground (<a href='/img/68/747/index.html'>68747</a>), superseding that at Leicester Square. 95/138</p><p>21/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Angel'>Angel</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>The wide southbound platform at Angel, Northern Line, on 20th November 2021. But it wasn't always so as, when opened by the City & South London Railway in 1901 and for the next 91 years, it had a narrow island platform in a single tunnel. By the end of the 1980s this had become totally inadequate and the whole station was rebuilt, the new being unveiled in 1992. The northbound platform on the south side of the island was abolished and built over, while the southbound on the north side was retained, leaving a very wide southbound platform. A new tunnel for northbound trains was constructed, leaving and rejoining the 1901 track either side of Angel station, to accommodate a new northbound platform which is of normal width with new passageways driven through the former tunnel wall to connect them. The old entrance on City Road was abandoned and replaced by a new one on Islington High Street. The former CSLR platforms at Euston also included a single island platform which disappeared during the construction of the Victoria Line in the 1960s but two examples of how Angel once looked survive at Clapham North and Clapham Common on the southern section of the Northern Line. 96/138</p><p>20/11/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Paddington_Met'>Paddington [Met]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/S/South_Kensington_Extension,_Minories_Extension_Metropolitan_Railway'>South Kensington Extension, Minories Extension (Metropolitan Railway)</a></small></p><p>Praed Street entrance to Paddington Underground station - Bakerloo, Circle, District and Hammersmith & City Lines - before dawn at 6.03 a.m. on Saturday, 11th December 2021. 97/138</p><p>11/12/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/O/Old_Street_CSLR'>Old Street [CSLR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>View from pedestrian subway leading from the ex-GNCR platforms at Old Street station towards the Northern Line with the northbound platform visible in the background on 14th January 2022. These platforms opened as part of the City & South London Railway in 1901 with the extension from Moorgate Street (renamed Moorgate in 1924) to Angel. The GNCR platforms were opened in 1904. 98/138</p><p>14/01/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Brixton_LTB'>Brixton [LTB]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/V/Victoria_Line_London_Transport_Board'>Victoria Line (London Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>Entrance to Brixton station, southern terminus of the LU Victoria Line, in pouring rain on the afternoon of Saturday, 19th February 2022. This station opened on 23rd July 1971, with the extension from Victoria, and I travelled on it on that very first day, all those decades ago. There are no direct connections to the National Rail station which is a short walk away to the north (left of photo). 99/138</p><p>19/02/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wood_Green'>Wood Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Interior of Wood Green ticket hall, Piccadilly Line, on 20th April 2022, during a lull in passenger flows. This Charles Holden designed station will celebrate its 90th Anniversary on 19th September 2022, opening with the first stage of the London Electric Railways Cockfosters extension from Finsbury Park as far as Arnos Grove in 1932. That became known as the Piccadilly Line in 1937 under a general renaming of lines by the LPTB. 100/138</p><p>20/04/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Highgate'>Highgate</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Highgate_Link_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Highgate Link (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>As part of the LPTB 1935 New Works programme, Highgate was to become a two-level interchange for the Northern Line with trains extended from what is now Archway to the High Barnet line at East Finchley while the surface station was also to be served by tube trains, principally to and from Alexandra Palace. A brand new ticket hall was built immediately beneath the surface station with access between the two while a new escalator, seen here on 30th April 2022, descended for 210 ft. to the new deep-level platforms. The surface station was rebuilt too and although Northern Line trains reached High Barnet in 1940 and Mill Hill East in 1941, everything else was abandoned after 1945 although steam trains continued to run to Alexandra Palace until 1954, after which the stairways between the then closed High Level and deep-level Low Level sections at Highgate were sealed off. 101/138</p><p>30/04/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Highgate'>Highgate</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Highgate_Link_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Highgate Link (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>The lower concourse at Highgate station, LU Northern Line, deep beneath the abandoned surface station, on the afternoon of Saturday, 30th April 2022. Passageways lead left and right to the lengthy platforms. Built as part of the only partially completed LPTB 1935 New Works scheme for the Northern Line, trains were extended from what is now Archway station to a connection with the LNER at East Finchley on 3rd July 1939 but Highgate station was not ready on that date and had to wait until 17th January 1941 before receiving its first passengers. However, it had been been opened up for use as an air raid shelter from 3rd October 1940 as the London Blitz of World War Two intensified. Tube trains were extended over former steam tracks from East Finchley to High Barnet on 14th April 1940 and from Finchley Central (renamed from Finchley (Church End) to Mill Hill East on 18th May 1941 and that was all that was completed. The rebuilt surface station at Highgate, which would have seen tube trains between Finsbury Park and Alexandra Palace, still stands, crumbling away, although steam trains continued to run to Alexandra Palace until 1954. 102/138</p><p>30/04/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bank_C_and_SLR'>Bank [C and SLR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>Although the new southbound Northern Line platform at Bank station was opened to traffic on schedule on 16th May 2022, there is still more reconstruction work to be done improving facilities and better links to the Central, Waterloo & City and DLR lines as well as the District and Circle Lines via the connection to Monument station, as detailed in this poster on display at Bank station. 103/138</p><p>16/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bank_C_and_SLR'>Bank [C and SLR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>The new and lengthy walkway between the northbound and new southbound platforms at Bank station, looking south, on the day it reopened, 16th May 2022, following a temporary closure since January for the reconstruction. The new wide southbound platform is beyond the wall on the right, reached via separate walkways, while this particular walkway is on the site of the former southbound platform (left) and southbound track (right). 104/138</p><p>16/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bounds_Green'>Bounds Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Bounds Green, Piccadilly Line, on the scorching morning of Saturday, 9th July 2022, two months short of the station's 90th birthday, seen from the upstairs side windows of a number 221 bus to Edgware. This station opened with the first stage of the Cockfosters extension from Finsbury Park to Arnos Grove on 19th September 1932. Like the other stations on the extension, which reached Cockfosters the following year, Bounds Green was designed by Dr. Charles Holden (1875-1960), the London Underground's Chief Architect between the two world wars. On the right, waiting at the traffic lights, is a single decker WVS bus on TfL route 299 from Cockfosters to Muswell Hill. 105/138</p><p>09/07/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Willesden_Junction_Low_Level_New_Lines'>Willesden Junction Low Level [New Lines]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/N/New_Lines_London_and_North_Western_Railway'>New Lines (London and North Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Willesden Junction Low Level looking towards Euston, on Saturday, 6th August 2022. See image <a href='/img/39/164/index.html'>39164</a> taken here in 1989. 106/138</p><p>06/08/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Whitechapel_Metro'>Whitechapel [Metro]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Whitechapel_Line_Metropolitan_Railway_and_Metropolitan_District_Railway_Joint'>Whitechapel Line (Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan District Railway Joint)</a></small></p><p>Modern style example of the London Underground roundel on the westbound platform at Whitechapel, District and Hammersmith & City Lines, on 23rd September 2022. This part of the station originally comprised two island platforms but on rebuilding the two centre tracks were abolished and the platforms extended to form one large new island. 107/138</p><p>23/09/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Morden'>Morden</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Charing_Cross_to_Waterloo_and_Morden_Extension_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Charing Cross to Waterloo and Morden Extension (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>Morden, southern terminus of the Northern Line, looking north from the footbridge with a train of LU 1996 stock waiting to depart for Edgware via Bank, on the evening of Saturday, 22nd October 2022. This station, designed by Dr. Charles Holden (1875-1960), opened with the extension of the City & South London Railway from its 1900 terminus at Clapham Common on 13th September 1926. The line was then renamed the Morden-Edgware line until 1937 when the LPTB renamed the whole line as the Northern Line, notwithstanding that a long section of it, as here, is in SOUTH London! 108/138</p><p>22/10/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/K/Kennington'>Kennington</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/London_and_Southwark_Subway'>London and Southwark Subway</a></small></p><p>The City & South London Railway (originally to have been called the City of London & Southwark Subway) was the world's first underground electric railway opened on 18th December 1890 from King William Street (replaced by Bank in 1900) and Stockwell. Now part of the much-extended Northern Line, but here in south London, Kennington station survives largely unchanged, the only one of the original stations to do so and seen here on the afternoon of Wednesday, 30th November 2022. The dome is not for decorative purposes, though it could be, but houses the mechanism for the lifts from the ticket hall to the deep level platforms. Kennington became the junction for the Battersea Power Station branch of the Northern Line when this opened on 20th September 2021. 109/138</p><p>30/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Harrow-on-the-Hill_Met'>Harrow-on-the-Hill (Met)</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Rickmansworth_Railway'>Harrow and Rickmansworth Railway</a></small></p><p>Two different ways of displaying Harrow-on-the-Hill on LU roundels, as seen here on 31st December 2022. The one on the left has been there since at least the 1960s, the days when my cousin and I used to explore the Underground with a half price Twin Rover ticket; the roundel on the right is of more recent appearance. 110/138</p><p>31/12/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Ruislip'>Ruislip</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Uxbridge_Railway'>Harrow and Uxbridge Railway</a></small></p><p>Ruislip, Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines, remains substantially as opened in 1904 and a great reminder of a Metropolitan Railway turn-of-the-20th Century country station and a guide to the appearance of the original Uxbridge terminus, which was replaced by the present station in 1938. This was the only intermediate station on the Harrow & Uxbridge Railway when it opened. This view is towards central London on New Year's Day afternoon, 2023. 111/138</p><p>01/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/U/Uxbridge'>Uxbridge</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Uxbridge_Railway'>Harrow and Uxbridge Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Uxbridge station, terminus of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines, as resited on the High Street in 1938 from the original 1904 terminus on Belmont Road, and designed by Dr. Charles Holden, seen here on New Years Day afternoon, 2023. 112/138</p><p>01/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/U/Uxbridge'>Uxbridge</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/H/Harrow_and_Uxbridge_Railway'>Harrow and Uxbridge Railway</a></small></p><p>Spectacular original London Underground signs with UndergrounD in initial and final enlarged letters and a 'tunnel' effect in between. Seen here outside the 1938 Uxbridge station, terminus of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines, on 1st January 2023. 113/138</p><p>01/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Turnpike_Lane'>Turnpike Lane</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Turnpike Lane station, Piccadilly Line, on 9th January 2023. It celebrated its 90th birthday on 19th September 2022, having opened with the first stage of the line's extension from Finsbury Park as far as Arnos Grove. Designed by Dr. Charles Holden and now a Grade II Listed Structure. When the Cockfosters extension was in the planning stage, this station was to have been called Wood Green and what is actually Wood Green station, one stop towards Cockfosters, was to have been called Lordship Lane. However, at that time there was a station of that name on the Crystal Palace High Level branch so rather than risk confusion, even though on opposite sides of the Thames, what was to have been Wood Green became Turnpike Lane and Lordship Lane became Wood Green. (The Crystal Palace High Level branch closed on 20th September 1954 and a housing estate now covers the site where the actual Lordship Lane station once stood.) 114/138</p><p>09/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Arnos_Grove'>Arnos Grove</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Former passimeter ticket booth in the hall at Arnos Grove, Piccadilly Line, on 9th January 2023. It is no longer in use for its original purpose but displays details of the station's history in its windows. Looking nowhere near its age, this Dr. Charles Holden designed station was 90 years old on 19th September 2022, having opened as the temporary terminus of the first stage of the Cockfosters extension from Finsbury Park. 115/138</p><p>09/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/A/Arnos_Grove'>Arnos Grove</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>One of Dr. Charles Holden's most iconic designs, the circular entrance tower building to Arnos Grove, LU Piccadilly Line, seen here as the night begins to descend around it, on 9th January 2023. Now a Grade II Listed Structure, it looks nowhere near its 90 years of age which it achieved on 19th September 2022, such was the genius of Dr. Holden. 116/138</p><p>09/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/O/Oakwood'>Oakwood</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Oakwood station, LU Piccadilly Line, opened 13th March 1933 as Enfield West (Enfield West (Oakwood) from 1934 and just Oakwood from 1946) and designed by Dr. Charles Holden. Seen here on 9th January 2023, two months short of its 90th birthday, this is a Grade II Listed Structure. According to Alan A. Jackson and Desmond F. Croome in their 'Rails Through the Clay', this is 'the highest station in Europe in a direct line west of the Ural Mountains of Russia'. So when it all goes quiet in the pub ..... 117/138</p><p>09/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Cockfosters'>Cockfosters</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Cockfosters station, eastern terminus of the Piccadilly Line, opened on 31st July 1933 and where Dr. Holden designed a more modest building than his rather dramatic examples at Oakwood, Arnos Grove and the District station rebuild at Sudbury Town on the Uxbridge branch. This view is on 9th January 2023, six months short of the station's 90th birthday. It is now a Grade II Listed Structure. 118/138</p><p>09/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Cockfosters'>Cockfosters</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/P/Piccadilly_Extension_London_Electric_Railways'>Piccadilly Extension (London Electric Railways)</a></small></p><p>Original 1933 passimeter ticket booth, dating from the opening of Cockfosters. No longer used as such but perfectly preserved as seen on 9th January 2023. These were an American invention with the name derived from the devices that counted passengers as they passed through the turnstiles below the windows. Dr. Charles Holden incorporated them into his Piccadilly Line stations but, as time went by, the name came to be applied to any free-standing ticket both. 119/138</p><p>09/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Great_Portland_Street'>Great Portland Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Great Portland Street station, as rebuilt in 1930, on 10th January 2023, the 160th anniversary of its opening as Portland Road with the first stage of the Metropolitan Railway. It was renamed 100 years ago in 1923 but in fact fronts onto Marylebone Road. 120/138</p><p>10/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Baker_Street_Met'>Baker Street [Met]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Chiltern Court, the luxury block of flats built over the entrance to Baker Street station in 1929, seen here on 10th January 2023, 160 years to the day since the station opened with the first stage of the world's first Undergound, the Metropolitan Railway. 121/138</p><p>10/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Baker_Street'>Baker Street</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Baker Street, on the World's First Underground, the Metropolitan Railway, looking east on its 160th birthday on 10th January 2023. It was restored in 1983 to resemble as closely as possible how it looked in mid-Victorian times. The vents above the walls on both platforms were once open to the sky, letting in natural daylight, but were filled-in before the refurbishment with lights installed later to help resemble daylight and the Victorian effect. Note also the widened platforms over the site of the lifted GWR broad gauge rails. 122/138</p><p>10/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Baker_Street_Met'>Baker Street [Met]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Unlike the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Railway in 2013, where all kinds of events were held, this was TfL's only nod to the 160th anniversary, seen here at Baker Street station on the day, 10th January 2023. Of course the Metropolitan is NOT and never has been a tube (by rights it is a cut-and-cover subway). The term originated from the City and South London Railway but is now applied, quite wrongly, to the entire London Underground system. 123/138</p><p>10/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Edgware_Road'>Edgware Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/M/Metropolitan_Railway'>Metropolitan Railway</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Edgware Road station, as rebuilt in 1925, seen here on 10th January 2023, 160 years to the day after its opening with the first stage of the Metropolitan Railway. There are two stations of this name on the London Underground, the other being about 150 metres away on the Bakerloo Line. That at least is sited on Edgware Road whereas the Metropolitan station is round the corner on Chapel Street. Suggestions that one or other is renamed, and the Met station would be the prime candidate, have all fallen on deaf ears. It is surprising that a low level pedestrian subway between the two has never been considered. 124/138</p><p>10/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/East_Putney'>East Putney</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Wimbledon_and_Putney_Line_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Wimbledon and Putney Line (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Looking towards Point Pleasant from East Putney, District Line, along tracks that have not seen regular passenger trains since 5th May 1941 when the Southern Railway withdrew the Waterloo to Wimbledon via East Putney service, though the line between East Putney and Wimbledon stayed in main line ownership until 1994. National Rail does, however, still use this for engineering trains and occasional passenger diversions. Just beyond here, the line used to split with the up track crossing on a viaduct above all four of the Richmond line tracks before curving and descending to join the line towards Waterloo but was abandoned in 1990 when the viaduct became unsafe although its remains are still standing. The few special workings now use the down track bi-directionally, I travelled from Wimbledon to Waterloo via East Putney on a return railtour some years ago. The still extant District Line platforms are out of view on the left, the former up platform on this spur can be used if at any time it is necessary to terminate District trains from Wimbledon here. This photo was taken on Sunday, 15th January 2023. 125/138</p><p>15/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southfields'>Southfields</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Wimbledon_and_Putney_Line_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Wimbledon and Putney Line (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>The absolutely delightful entrance building to Southfields station on 15th January 2023. Opened in 1889 by the LSWR, but since 1941 served only by the LU District Line's Wimbledon branch trains (when the Southern Railway withdrew the Waterloo to Wimbledon via East Putney service as a wartime economy and was never reinstated after 1945) and not actually handed over to London Transport control until 1994. 126/138</p><p>15/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wimbledon_Park'>Wimbledon Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Wimbledon_and_Putney_Line_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Wimbledon and Putney Line (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>Wimbledon Park, originally opened by the LSWR in 1889 and served at first by LSWR trains and LU District Line trains until 1941 when the ex-LSWR service from Wimbledon to Waterloo via East Putney was withdrawn by the post-Grouping Southern Railway. This view looking towards central London is on Sunday, 15th January 2023. In every respect, this station is the exact double of Southfields station (they could be twins!) on the same line, except that Wimbledon Park faces in the opposite direction, i.e. north whereas Southfields faces south. 127/138</p><p>15/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/East_Putney'>East Putney</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Wimbledon_and_Putney_Line_London_and_South_Western_Railway'>Wimbledon and Putney Line (London and South Western Railway)</a></small></p><p>East Putney, looking towards Wimbledon, on 15th January 2023. The Wimbledon & Putney line was opened by the LSWR on 3rd June 1889 from Wimbledon to a connection with their Richmond line at Point Pleasant junction, west of Wandsworth Town. The LSWR also provided a spur from this station, with its own platforms (seen here), across the Thames to an end-on junction with the District Line at Putney Bridge which enabled these trains to be extended to Wimbledon with running powers but no LSWR trains ever used this connection. Passenger services between Wimbledon and Waterloo via Point Pleasant were withdrawn by the Southern on 5th May 1941 but the line remained in main line ownership until 1st April 1994 when it was transferred to London Transport and is still used by National Rail for empty stock workings and occasional passenger diversions, as at the time of the Clapham Junction rail crash in 1988. The original buildings on the left were destroyed in a fire some years ago. 128/138</p><p>15/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Tottenham_Court_Road_CL'>Tottenham Court Road [CL]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_London_Railway'>Central London Railway</a></small></p><p>The spacious new ticket hall at Tottenham Court Road, rebuilt for the Elizabeth Line, that opened on 24th May 2022 but originally opened for the Central London Railway (now part of the Central Line) in 1900. This is now a massive interchange between the Central, Northern & Elizabeth Lines in the heart of the Capital and seen here on 13th February 2023. 129/138</p><p>13/02/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Bank_C_and_SLR'>Bank [C and SLR]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/City_and_South_London_Railway'>City and South London Railway</a></small></p><p>The new entrance to Bank on Cannon St opened on 27th February 2023 and seen here on the following day. The multi-million pounds upgrade of this station, served by the Northern, Central, Waterloo & City and DLR lines, as well as a connection with the District and Circle Lines at Monument, started in 2015 and is now complete. This is now one of the largest Underground stations, a vast and deep catacomb of intersecting lines and passageways, escalators and a new travelator between the Northern and Central Lines. (For a view of the latter, see my image no. 83754, 3.12.22.) 130/138</p><p>28/02/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Cannon_Street_Met'>Cannon Street [Met]</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/A/Aldgate_-_Mansion_House:_City_Lines_and_Extensions_Metropolitan_Railway_and_Metropolitan_and_District_Railway_Joint'>Aldgate - Mansion House: City Lines and Extensions (Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan and District Railway Joint)</a></small></p><p>Cannon Street station, LU Circle and District Lines, originally opened by the Metropolitan District Railway on 6th October 1884, seen here looking east at lunchtime on 28th February 2023. 131/138</p><p>28/02/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Stepney_Green'>Stepney Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Whitechapel_and_Bow_Railway_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway_and_District_Railway'>Whitechapel and Bow Railway (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and District Railway)</a></small></p><p>'To the Trains' sign at Stepney Green station, LU District and Hammersmith & City Lines which, judging by the look of it, is probably original dating from the station's opening in 1902 and seen here on Saturday, 4th March 2023. 132/138</p><p>04/03/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Stepney_Green'>Stepney Green</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Whitechapel_and_Bow_Railway_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway_and_District_Railway'>Whitechapel and Bow Railway (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and District Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Stepney Green station, LU District and Hammersmith & City Lines, on the north side of the busy Mile End Road in east London, on Saturday, 4th March 2023. It was opened on 2nd June 1902 by the Whitechapel & Bow Railway, which extended the District Line east to a connection with the LT&SR at Campbell Road junction, west of Bromley (now Bromley-by-Bow) and which was the nucleus by which District trains eventually reached Upminster. District trains also ran from Ealing Broadway to Southend-on-Sea via this route at one time, changing from District electric locomotives to LT&SR steam ones at Barking but this service ceased at the outbreak of WWII, never to be resumed. 133/138</p><p>04/03/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Watford'>Watford</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/W/Watford_Branch_Metropolitan_Railway_and_London_and_North_Eastern_Railway_Joint'>Watford Branch (Metropolitan Railway and London and North Eastern Railway Joint)</a></small></p><p>Watford Metropolitan Line station is remote from the town centre but serves a well-populated residential catchment area. The terminus, lovely in restored pre-LPTB Metropolitan Railway colours, was opened jointly between the Metropolitan and the LNER from a triangular junction between Moor Park and Rickmansworth, on 2nd November 1925. Metropolitan Line trains ran, as they still do, to Baker Street and Aldgate via the south spur but the LNER shuttle service between Watford and Rickmansworth via the north spur was withdrawn in 1934. This view is on the quiet Sunday afternoon of 12th March 2023, with a train of LU S8 stock just arrived from Aldgate on the left and waiting to form a return service to Baker Street. 134/138</p><p>12/03/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chesham'>Chesham</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chesham_Branch_Harrow_and_Rickmansworth_Railway'>Chesham Branch (Harrow and Rickmansworth Railway)</a></small></p><p>Looking more like a country branch line station (which, of course, it is) than a London Underground station, the exterior of Chesham, terminus of the single-track branch from Chalfont & Latimer, with LU S8 stock train just arrived on left, on the afternoon of Sunday, 12th March 2023. It opened on 8th July 1889 with the extension from Rickmansworth. When the Metropolitan Railway opened its main line through Amersham to Aylesbury on 1st September 1892, it diverged from the Chesham branch at Chalfont Road (now Chalfont & Latimer) and Chesham then rightly became a branch line and remains single track to this day. 135/138</p><p>12/03/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chesham'>Chesham</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chesham_Branch_Harrow_and_Rickmansworth_Railway'>Chesham Branch (Harrow and Rickmansworth Railway)</a></small></p><p>Chesham, Metropolitan Line, with preserved but disused signal box, resplendent in pre-LPTB Metropolitan Railway colours, on left, looking towards Chalfont & Latimer as a train of LU S8 stock arrives on the afternoon of Sunday, 12th March 2023. The space in front of the signal box is the site of the lifted run-round track used until 1961 when electrification replaced steam. 136/138</p><p>12/03/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/C/Chesham'>Chesham</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Chesham_Branch_Harrow_and_Rickmansworth_Railway'>Chesham Branch (Harrow and Rickmansworth Railway)</a></small></p><p>LU S8 stock, Metropolitan Line, just arrived at the idyllic terminus at Chesham, which still has the air of a country branch line station rather than a London Underground one, with the disused but preserved water tower from steam days in the background, on 12th March 2023. The station was opened by the Metropolitan Railway on 8th July 1889. 137/138</p><p>12/03/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Holloway_Road'>Holloway Road</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Northern,_Piccadilly_and_Brompton_Railway'>Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway</a></small></p><p>View from a class 700 Thameslink service to Horsham, between Finsbury Park and St. Pancras International Low Level, crossing Holloway Road bridge on Saturday, 1st April 2023. The LU Piccadilly Line Holloway Road station entrance can be seen at street level, opened as part of the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway on 15th December 1906, now part of the much-extended Piccadilly Line to which it was renamed by the LPTB in 1937. See image <a href='/img/72/339/index.html'>72339</a>. 138/138</p><p>01/04/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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