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(Now Marylebone) Northbound platform: This
station opened as Great Central and was renamed Marylebone on 15th
April 1917, the day before the Bakerloo was extended beyond Willesden
Junction (it originally terminated at Edgware Road). Panel 1 (at the
left-hand end) had its tiling destroyed long before I started my site
surveys in 1981 and no information has been found elsewhere. Many
of the later Yerkes stations had their patterns clipped off at the
bottom and the lower panels formed of concrete (with wooden formers
above and below). This was an economy measure as posters were by then
being affixed to the lower areas of the platforms walls. The adaptations
required to make the patterns fit can be noted at panels 6, 7 and
9, where cut-width tiles have been used. The original tiling was completely
replaced from autumn 1989 by an inaccurate pastiche, though one name
panel was preserved at the the right-hand end.
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