Queens Park - ugly

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Is Queens Park really ugly tho.... I quite like the sheds as it gives it a mysterious feeling to it when you go through. The station itself is quite nice being next to the WCML with platforms 6 and 7 I believe being blocked years ago due to trains not needing to stop there. And then you go into tunnel till ECS. It is quite a quaint station I think and I like it. Thoughts?

[theblackferret]

Well, being sat together with non-Tube services gives the place a different feel to most Underground stations.

And I, for one, like a bit of variety in the stations, as long as the Tube services themselves are consistently reliable.

It does have a certain ambience & I trust that any station should give off its' own, regardless of strictly being a workaday,functional building.

[miff]

I like the unique character of this station with the shed over the tracks at one end and the 2-road brick built shed in the sidings at t’other. Does anyone know why the sheds ended up this way? Probably not built at the same time I guess. The station entrance on the bridge is a bit ugly I suppose, never really thought about it before but it’s certainly not one of the many architectural gems on the network

I also like wandering up Salisbury Road, there’s a few nice bars, shops etc. including a good butcher.

[spsmiler]

I only know the station at platform level (1 - 4). Its theme is not a million miles from Finchley Road (tube trains in the middle, full size trains on the outside).

Bearing in mind that Queens Park is often used as an interchange station where passengers wait for trains on the platforms I'm pleased that the full platform canopy is still extant.

The train sheds to the north and sound of the Bakerloo line are 'much of a muchness'. Typical structures (I suppose) for their era. I prefer brick buildings to what would (most likely) be built today - RSJ frame with steel cladding.

[trt]

I was changing at Harrow & Wealdstone the other day and with a few minutes to spare on a quite nice day started looking up nd noticed the canopy roof on platforms 1 & 2. Trying to work out the carpentry that had been employed to support the structure. It looks mostly timber, you know. Quite remarkable. Of course it would be typical of Bakerloo Line canopy construction I expect.

[spsmiler]

Nov 2, 2022 10:20:09 GMT trt said:

I was changing at Harrow & Wealdstone the other day and with a few minutes to spare on a quite nice day started looking up nd noticed the canopy roof on platforms 1 & 2. Trying to work out the carpentry that had been employed to support the structure. It looks mostly timber, you know. Quite remarkable. Of course it would be typical of Bakerloo Line canopy construction I expect.

The station was opened by the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) in 1837.

By the time that the jointly operated services with the Bakerloo line had began (in 1917) this was the London & North Western Railway (L&NWR) which was also known as the Premier Line.

Information source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_%26_Wealdstone_station

btw, by allowing the Bakerloo to use its tracks the L&NWR saved itself much expense by being able to cancel its plans to cope with high train frequencies by building an underground loop at Euston. (The plans for the loop were so that its suburban electric trains would not need to reverse direction of travel to return north again). The Bakerloo service was in addition to their Watford and Croxley Green services feeding into two London terminius stations - Euston and Broad Street via Hampstead Heath or Primrose Hill.

As far as I am aware the Bakerloo did not build any surface railway stations of their own - all their stations were underground.