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| This was a massive tiling project. For serious students,
the following statistics may be of interest. Though first of all I
must define what I regard as a ‘station’ in this context. A ‘station’
means the facility provided for one railway line. Most stations had
two platforms, though some had more. Piccadilly Circus (Bakerloo and
Piccadilly tubes) and Leicester Square (Piccadilly and Hampstead tubes)
have been treated as each having two stations, with two platforms
on each. Holborn (Piccadilly) has been regarded as one station though
it had four platforms. The same is true for Camden Town on the Hampstead
(now Northern) Line. |
| Trafalgar Square had two platforms but only one received
decorative tiling. South Kensington (Piccadilly) had three platforms
though only two came into service. The third platform (intended for
the abortive deep-level District Line) was only built to about a third
of its proposed length, though it was tiled. Finsbury Park station
was built by the Great Northern Railway and leased to the Piccadilly.
It had two platforms, neither of which therefore were designed by
Leslie Green and so did not receive decorative tiling. |
| Barons Court and Hammersmith (Piccadilly) were open-air
stations and have not been included in the calculations at all. Golders
Green (Hampstead) was also an open-air station but has been included
as it received decorative tiling on its platform staircases. |
| THERE WERE THEREFORE: |
11 Bakerloo stations
19 Piccadilly stations (excluding Finsbury Park, Barons Court and
Hammersmith)
16 Hampstead stations (including Golders Green)
46 stations in total |
| AND |
21 Bakerloo platforms (excluding the northbound
at Trafalgar Square)
40 Piccadilly platforms (four at Holborn but excluding the two at
Finsbury Park)
32 Hampstead platforms (four at Camden Town but none at Golders Green)
1 District deep-level platform
94 platforms in total |
| see Yerkes Network Map in Context
>> |
| PLATFORM LENGTHS AT OPENING |
these were nominally:
Bakerloo 291 feet*
Piccadilly 350 feet
Hampstead (Northern) 350 feet |
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