Click the buttons below for full platform realizations of each railway
Since they opened in 1906/7 all stations have suffered to different degrees as to how much original tiling had been lost by the time the research work to create realizations was under way. Many stations had experienced areas of reconstruction - sometimes quite extensive. Though a few stations survived reasonably well, none were in any way complete. Furthermore, even at the better ones, vast expanses were covered by posters, signs and machines, or enclosed inside equipment rooms and cupboards. The realizations shown in this section of the website have been chosen from those where the research surveys were the most complete.
To experience what passengers would have seen back in 1906/07, realizations that are as complete as has been discovered, for all stations, can be viewed for each of the three railways. The height of the tiling was about 7ft 6ins and the vertical bands that separate the individual pattern and name panels and protrude upwards, projected over the ceiling vault and onto the trackside opposite.