PHOTO HANGER LANE UNDERGROUND STATION (CENTRAL LINE) THE INTERIOR OF THE WAITIN

Description: EXTRA INFOPHOTO HANGER LANE UNDERGROUND STATION (CENTRAL LINE) THE INTERIOR OF THE WAITING ROOM OF THE ISLAND PLATFORM . INCLUDED IN THE LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARDS 1935-40 NEW WORKS PROGRAMME WAS A NORTH-WESTWARDS EXTENSION OF THE CENTRAL LINE FROM NORTH ACTON TO DENHAM VIA GREENFORD AND WEST RUISLIP PARALLELING THE GWRS NEW NORTH MAIN LINE (NNML) AS FAR AS NORTHOLT AND THENCE THE GWR/GCR JOINT LINE. CONSTRUCTION HAD ONLY JUST BEGUN WHEN WWII BROKE OUT WHEN ALL WORK WAS SUSPENDED. WHEN IT RESTARTED POST-WAR THE LINE TO GREENFORD WAS OPENED IN JUNE 1947 AND TO WEST RUISLIP IN NOVEMBER 1948 BUT THE ONWARD EXTENSION TO DENHAM WAS ABANDONED BECAUSE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LONDON GREEN BELT WHICH MEANT THAT THE LARGE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS HOPED FOR COULD NOT BE BUILT. THERE HAD BEEN NO GWR STATION AT HANGER LANE. HANGER LANE STATION WAS THE FIRST STATION AFTER NORTH ACTON AND OPENED IN JUNE 1947 IN AN INCOMPLETE STATE WITH TEMPORARY BUILDINGS IT NOT BEING FINALLY FINISHED UNTIL JANUARY 1949 PARTLY DUE TO A SHORTAGE OF MATERIALS POST-WAR. IT WAS BUILT BY THE GWR AND BR(WR) FOR THE PICCADILLY LINE BUT OWNERSHIP WAS NOT TRANSFERRED TO THE LONDON TRANSPORT EXECUTIVE UNTIL JANUARY 1948 (WHEN BR WAS ESTABLISHED). DESIGN OF THE STATION WAS BEGUN IN 1938 BY BRIAN LEWIS - THE GWRS ASSISTANT ARCHITECT 1938-40/42-44 AND CHIEF ARCHITECT 1944-46 WHEN HE RESIGNED AT THE END OF 1946 TO BE REPLACED BY DR FREDERICK CURTIS IN 1947 WHO HEAVILY REVISED LEWISS DESIGN. WITH THE FORMATION OF BR IN JANUARY 1948 CURTIS BECAME BR (WESTERN REGION)S ARCHITECT BEFORE BECOMING BRS CHIEF ARCHITECT IN 1949. CURTIS WAS ASSISTED IN THE DESIGN BY HOWARD CAVANAGH ASSISTANT ARCHITECT TO THE GWR AND THEN BR(WR) 1944-49 (AND ARCHITECT TO THE WR 1949-60) AND PETER MACIVER (AN ARCHITECT WITH WR). THE SUB-SURFACE TICKET HALL FORMS THE CENTRE OF THE A40/A406 HANGER LANE GYRATORY SYSTEM AND CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED BY PEDESTRIAN SUBWAYS UNDER THE COMPLEX OF ROADS. SURPRISINGLY THE STATION IS NOT STATUTORILY LISTED AND NOT EVEN LOCALLY LISTED. PICTURED IS THE INTERIOR OF THE WAITING ROOM OF THE ISLAND PLAYFORM - CLOSED BECAUSE OF ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR. A SIGN OF THE TIMES UNFORTUNATELY. LOVELY BISCUIT-CREAM TILES ARE ON SHOW. COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) H LLEWELYN PHOTO PAPER THICKNESS NORMAL PHOTOGRAPH THICKNESS NOTES REF NO HL-28638 PHOTO SIZE SIZE 6 X 4 inches CONDITION: SOME CROPPING OR WHITE LINES TOP/BOTTOM MAY OCCUR DUE TO PHOTO RATIO WATERMARK IF PRESENT ON THE IMAGE WILL NOT APPEAR ON ITEM SENT TO YOU: NOTES This is a print and supply service for an image that is copyright (PHOTO AND TEXT) V obtained from FLICKR and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License details available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ MANY OTHER ITEMS ARE BEING ADDED TO MY SHOP DAILY

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