I love that victorian tilework.
Moscow underground is amazing - the stations are like temples
RudeBoy -Sharee law is slang in India, it's used by Hindus to take the pi$$!
Besides if I quoted incorrect grammer or spelling from yourself I'd be here all day.
Unless the forum is going to use correct grammer and paragraphs then I don't really care about spilling a foo wurds.
Besides I should be working lol...
Covent Garden is a Leslie Green station - designed so that in the future somthing could be built over the top of it. there's some seriously big iron stantions in those stations - although some like Gloucester Road never had the "air rights" building constructed.
TJ - I'm afraid that quite a lot of the tiling is actually rather more recent than you might think. More like Elisabethan than Victorian I'm afraid.
The Northern Line extension stations in south london use very nice Vitreous Enamel tiles rather than ceramic ones, ie Clapham South, Tooting Broadway, etc
(Bows down to the Great Ap's vastly superior knowledge of the architecture of London's Tube)
[b]Zaskar- sorry, I'm no longer inertested! We're talking about Tube stations now. What's your favourite?
Bethnal Green is historically significant, as it's where 173 peopledied following a panic to get into the station, during WW2. The tragic events were caused not by a German air-raid, but the noise from nearby Victoria Park, where the army were testing some guns.
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[/url]The crush at Bethnal Green is the largest loss of civilian life in the UK in World War II and the largest loss of life in a single incident on the London Underground network.
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Some nice tiles down below. And there's a lot of older Underground styles; lots of original lettering and signage, and use of fonts. The ticket counters are the lovely old brass ones, original, I think.
A fave of mine, as it's near my old nursery, so I remember it from a very early age.
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173 dying in a tube station!! That's horrific!! Never knew about that. Can you imagine that now?
Just read the wiki link, quite extraordinary piece of history, thanks for that Rudeboy.
Try reading the Koran to get a better picture of what Muslims beleive and make your own mind up.
I did.
Take a look at what's underneath Clapham South tube......
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You're welcome, nickc! Always good to learn stuff. Like I've been doing, from aP's posts!
In fact, I think I'm in love with aP, and want his babies..
What is that thing, btw? Got a link to it? The pic links to an inertesting site, though, thanks.
[b]Zaskar- sorry, I'm no longer inertested! We're talking about Tube stations now. What's your favourite?
Wynyard?
Eh? What ****ing line is that on???
Not the Central Line is it? They like to reduntatify stations...