gazthomas
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That's a fair point! I was thinking of other lines, all arguably separate
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This thread reminds me of a fantastic photo book I picked up a few years ago by Stephen Durnin, simply called "London Underground Stations", which is just that: a photo of each one captured in time with daily life passing by outside. Published in 2010, even now some of the pictures look dated and stations/society has changed. Worth picking up if you like that sort of thing.
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Peter Boizot, the founder of Pizza Express, died recently. An obituary I read said that when he sold the group he kept Pizza on the Park and one other, I believe because he loved jazz and was involved with who got to play in the restaurant.
edwin_m
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Depends whether you count the old station building to the west, now a ventilation shaft, as part of the station. However HS2 will demolish that.
Also depends on whether the mainline concourse and platforms are part of the same station.
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The main Bakerloo/Northern line ticket hall is really at external street level as well, (although it’s access route disguises this well at the moment), it will become more obvious once the new accesses open via the former international terminal. But there is also a Bakerloo/Northern surface level ticket hall on the Shell Centre side of York Rd...
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As usual for stuff published by this individual, I have spotted a number of inaccuracies in this already!
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You are right I forgot about the Shell ticket hall and after the works have finished although I can remember when there was lifts and the old entrance that was lost for the International terminal.
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I don't look at his stuff anymore because of the errors.
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Does Bank now have a surface entrance which opened recently? I have not been and had a look yet.
Yes it does, it’s on Walbrook, although the building isn’t owned by LU (it’s in the Bloomberg building), it does have LU facilities rooms and other facilities at street level which would, in my eyes, take it off that list.
Personally I like Geoff Marshall. I think his stuff is interesting, amusing and very watchable. He's basically just a train geek doing what he loves and, presumably, getting paid for it. I'd forgive him the odd error. I'd wager he knows more about the Underground than many of the people posting on this sub-forum!
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Thanks for that I will have a look after the holidays.
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Only trouble is there are not a few errors perhaps as you are a fan you could tell him then more people might enjoy again. He may know more than some of the people on this sub-forum but remember he does not know everything.Personally I like Geoff Marshall. I think his stuff is interesting, amusing and very watchable. He's basically just a train geek doing what he loves and, presumably, getting paid for it. I'd forgive him the odd error. I'd wager he knows more about the Underground than many of the people posting on this sub-forum!
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I'm not sure all of those count to answer the thread question, seeing that some (e.g. South Kenton, Dollis Hill) are very much overground stations, but without buildings as they are so basic!
I don't think he claims to know everything. One of the joys of studying any subject is finding out something new for the first time. As a keen student of the historical geography and social history of railways, mainly those that are local or personal to me, I find the best thing about such an interest is learning something I didn't know before. If we knew everything it would make the pursuit of knowledge pointless, and also boring.
Anyway, Merry Christmas to everyone on here!
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Sorry I think it was the way you worded it about knowing more than people on here, came across wrong. A Merry Christmas to you and everyone.
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Nobody knows everything, least of all those who think they know everything. Cue C.L.R. James's quote on cricket, for those who are not familiar with it. I like his enthusiasm, but wouldn't describe myself as a fan, being too long in the tooth for such things.
Drifting sightly, but I think the other one was the Soho branch - that still has jazz nights.
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Please point out the errors so us lessor mortals can be informed better
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Please point out the errors so us lessor mortals can be informed better
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I’m on holiday, on my mobile phone, away from a computer which makes it difficult. I did actually have it in mind to check and provide a list when I get home.
Mutant Lemming
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It does kind of depend on what your criteria -if it is any kind of surface structure then would St.Pauls count ?
Manor house and Turnpike Lane certainly have surface buildings - Id doubt a few others on there too but no time to look
I seem to think Clapham Common has no surface building as such, just a (rather elegant) structure to cover the staircase. I might be quite wrong however as it is a long time since I was there.
It does kind of depend on what your criteria -if it is any kind of surface structure then would St.Pauls count ?
The stair-covering roundhouse abuts a small pizza restaurant, not sure whether it'd be considered the same structure or not, but it may well be a TfL freehold / rental situation. Similar to the St Pauls entrance and its coffee shop shown in @Mutant Lemming's photo.
Until fairly recently that pizza restaurant, named Joe Public, was a public toilet block - it used to be just a Ladies, then it was converted to a full set of toilets with a Gents and disabled toilets as well, and now it's a pizza place! There also used to be a separate underground Gents at the other side of the station entrance (which had been disused for many years, and it now appears to have been turned into a wine bar - appropriately named WC: Wine & Charcuterie! At first sight when you see the WC sign you might think it still is a WC!).
I also seem to recall that there used to be a second entrance to the station on the opposite side of Clapham Common South Side from the main entrance, but I don't think it's there anymore - I think it was removed some time in the 1980s or '90s.
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I think that Waterloo definitely is. I couldn't say about Bond Street, though.
However, if you wanted to be pedantic, Waterloo does have a station building ABOVE ground; it's on the station concourse of the National Rail station, but everything else is underground - no sub-surface lines or anything like that.
The older Bakerloo/Northern line ticket hall is actually also at street level with York Road/Leake Street, it's just well disguised because Cab Road in front of the station is elevated, and the main concourse at Waterloo is further elevated, on what you might consider the first floor as the whole station is on arches. Once the International side has been fully redeveloped, there will be ground level entrances that allow you to walk in to the underground station it on the flat, as you can see here. There is another Waterloo tube entrance across the road at the bottom of one of the Shell Centre towers, which is also on surface level, and will be reopening soon.
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