TUBE TREASURE TROVE - APPENDIX
TUBE TREASURE TROVE Well, that was much more fun than I expected. My initial idea was to check out the 100 most interesting Underground stations on my way to other destinations. But I soon found myself doing the opposite, rapidly visiting 118 stations, some of them quite remote. Since completing this enjoyable mission, I've returned to some of the stations to find some interesting features I missed the first time around - adding the following updates to my previous posts: LIVERPOOL STREET The oldest surviving signal box on the Underground can be found at Liverpool Street on the Circle/Hammersmith & City eastbound platform. I t was opened in 1875 for an extension of the Metropolitan Railway, then converted in the 1950s t o electrically lock a platform out when a train had arrived in it. HAMMERSMITH ( District/Piccadilly) Illuminated roundels (unveiled 2024) celebrate the 150th anniversary of ...
