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Southbound platform: This was the first Yerkes
station to receive tiling; the northbound was tiled, conventionally
for its day, entirely in white. Waterloo was then chosen as the prototype
for the coloured tile pattern scheme and, in an evolved form, both
platforms at Embankment and the southbound at Trafalgar Square were
next. The cross-passage doorways here (unique at Yerkes stations)
reveal the fact that this was a very early station to be constructed.
Decorative mural panels were fixed in front of the original tiling
when the station was modernized from early 1982, though the new panels
were not visible until 13th December 1983. The station was renamed
Charing Cross when it was linked to the Northern Line and the newly
opened Jubilee Line on 1st May 1979.
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