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Author: lonelytravellerlonelytraveller Date: Feb 15, 2008 15:07
At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator
leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian
tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the
escalator; why?
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Author: OfframpOfframp Date: Feb 16, 2008 01:33
On Feb 15, 11:07 pm, lonelytraveller
hotmail.co.uk> wrote:> At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator
> leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian
> tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the
> escalator; why?
I am going to go and have a look at it right now.
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Author: tim (not at home)tim (not at home) Date: Feb 16, 2008 04:23
> At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator
> leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian
> tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the
> escalator; why?
Surely there's Victorian tiling in all (most) underground stations,
undernath all of the modern shit that stuck on top
tim
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Author: lonelytravellerlonelytraveller Date: Feb 16, 2008 04:30
On 16 Feb, 12:23, "tim \(not at home\)" yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:>> At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator
>> leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian
>> tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the
>> escalator; why?
>
> Surely there's Victorian tiling in all (most) underground stations,
> undernath all of the modern shit that stuck on top
>
> tim
But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have
been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next
to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern
line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful.
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Author: MIGMIG Date: Feb 16, 2008 07:47
On Feb 16, 12:30 pm, lonelytraveller
hotmail.co.uk> wrote:> On 16 Feb, 12:23, "tim \(not at home\)" yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>>> At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator
>>> leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian
>>> tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the
>>> escalator; why?
>
>> Surely there's Victorian tiling in all (most) underground stations,
>> undernath all of the modern shit that stuck on top
>
>> tim
>
> But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have
> been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next ...
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Author: robinrobin Date: Feb 17, 2008 08:32
On 16 Feb, 12:30, lonelytraveller
hotmail.co.uk> wrote:>
> But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have
> been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next
> to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern
> line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful.
Don't forget that most deep stations had lifts in the beginning.
Staircases were converted to escalator machine chambers also.
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Author: Colin RosenstielColin Rosenstiel Date: Feb 17, 2008 14:06
> At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator
> leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian
> tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the
> escalator; why?
Given that the Northern Line opened in 1907, I doubt it's actually
Victorian. Edwardian I might believe.
--
Colin Rosenstiel
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Author: lonelytravellerlonelytraveller Date: Feb 17, 2008 14:35
On 16 Feb, 15:47, MIG doreenbird.co.uk> wrote:> On Feb 16, 12:30 pm, lonelytraveller
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> hotmail.co.uk> wrote:>> On 16 Feb, 12:23, "tim \(not at home\)" yahoo.co.uk>
>> wrote:>
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>>>> At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator
>>>> leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian
>>>> tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the
>>>> escalator; why?
>
>>> Surely there's Victorian tiling in all (most) underground stations,
>>> undernath all of the modern shit that stuck on top
> ...
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Author: Paul ScottPaul Scott Date: Feb 17, 2008 14:41
>> At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator
>> leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian
>> tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the
>> escalator; why?
>
> Given that the Northern Line opened in 1907, I doubt it's actually
> Victorian. Edwardian I might believe.
>
Built using a stockpile of Victorian tiles? Perhaps they bought a job lot
cheap after Victoria's death... But seriously, how quickly do architectural
styles/materials change?
Paul S
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Author: lonelytravellerlonelytraveller Date: Feb 17, 2008 14:44
> On 16 Feb, 12:30, lonelytraveller
>
> hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>> But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have
>> been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next
>> to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern
>> line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful.
>
> Don't forget that most deep stations had lifts in the beginning.
> Staircases were converted to escalator machine chambers also.
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