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Post by mindthegap on Aug 9, 2021 18:32:19 GMT
Guys, Nowadays, Piccadilly Circus lies on the Bakerloo line and Piccadilly line, of which both lines were predominately designed by Leslie Green. Just wondering if the tile designs on each sets of platforms was the same? And from the following photo, when / which line was it just Piccadilly? ![]()  ![]()  |
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Post by goldenarrow on Aug 9, 2021 20:10:05 GMT
Both the Bakerloo and Piccadilly line platforms at Piccadilly Circus originally shared the same broad tiling colour scheme which continued in the connecting areas to the lift lobbies, the only part which survives intact albeit out of normal sight today. Piccadilly Circus disused area: www.flickr.com/photos/24772733@N05/49178309781/There where however minor detail differences at platform level especially around the tiled station name friezes with the Bakerloo having a crenelated border as shown in your latter photo and a 'pecked' border for the Piccadilly line which you can seen in this early illustration. Piccadilly Circus (Piccadilly line): www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/1998-85116 |
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Post by jimbo on Aug 10, 2021 5:37:30 GMT
The go-to resource for Yerkes line tile patterns is "Tiles of the Unexpected Underground" by Doug Rose, 2007. He mentions that the station was shown just as Piccadilly on line diagrams from 1928 to 1935, but post-War photos show the same on roundels and new platform name friezes. The photo you show still has Circus on the roundel! Perhaps a slow change in either way. Green Park station is also on the road called Piccadilly! I'm glad they reverted as, in my experience, a line and station both sharing the same name leads visitors astray. I can recall travellers for Victoria boarding the first Victoria line train on the apparently reasonable assumption that it would take them there. The fact that it was going away from there had misled them! This on more than one occassion, for different visitors of course!
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Post by brigham on Aug 10, 2021 7:14:48 GMT
What makes you think only 'Guys' are interested in railways? |
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Post by mindthegap on Aug 10, 2021 9:51:10 GMT
What makes you think only 'Guys' are interested in railways? "Guys" these days is more a generic term, apologies to any Gals that were offended by this term, will try not to use it in the future.  |
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