Great photos of this fantastic old map, discovered in place (presumably during the Bakerloo/Northern Line station refurbishment works) and now protected in situ🔸澳洲幸运10预测 by some rather ugly chicken wire. Note that the loop at the western end of the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow Terminal 4 is still under construction, which had been completed by the time this version of the map (May 2013, 3 stars) came out in 1988.

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The process is going to take 43 weeks🔸澳洲幸运10预测 starting on January 8 next year. During that time, Northern and Bakerloo trains will pass through🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Embankment without stopping, as there simply won’t be a way to get from their platforms to the surface or🔸澳洲幸运10预测 to the District/Circle Line platforms.

As a result, Embankment has been temporarily downgraded from an interchange ring on the map to a station tick, and moved away from the intersection between all the routes. It’s had to be moved quite a distance, because “Embankment” is quite a long name (no hyphenation of names on the Tube map!). As a result, Temple has been moved off the horizontal section of the District/Circle line and placed on the 45-degree segment along with Blackfriars, Mansion House and Cannon Street.

I personally don’t think that Temple needed🔸澳洲幸运10预测 to be moved off the horizontal section: Embankment and Temple could clearly be evenly spaced across the horizontal section – Embankment below the line, Temple above – without any confusion, as the station ticks would clearly “point” to their respective stations. Embankment’s label might have to slightly to the right compared to its tick, but it would be no worse than the placement of Westminster’s label. With these two stations on the horizontal segment, Blackfriars, Mansion House and Cannon Street could all retain their usual positions: I think this would create more even, harmonious spacing of all the stations than the map shown here.

Apparently, this map is appearing on some Northern Line trains but hasn’t been updated on the TfL site yet (and shouldn’t be until the work commences). 

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The diagram shows the C+E&H tube at the bottom right: it looks like a train has just left, heading back northwards to Charing Cross. To the left, the twin tubes of the Bakerloo line can be seen. Above, the shallow cut-and-cover tunnel of the District line runs at right angles to the deeper lines, built into the actual river embankment from which the station received its name. Above them all sits the grand old Charing Cross main line railway station, with The Strand just visible at its far end (a helpful caption, “This is The Strand”, points the way).

More than anything, it’s the detail of this cutaway that I like the most. Busy people enter and exit the station, read newspapers and ride the escalators between levels. A double-decker omnibus and Edwardian car can be seen chugging along the street, and trains belch steam in the station above. Advertisements adorn the walls, and the red carriages of the Tube fairly rattle along the tracks. An early version of the Underground roundel – a red circle with a blue bar across it – can be seen above the station’s building and on the District line platform.

If the naming of the station seems a little confusing, that’s because it was. In 1914, the District line platforms were named Charing Cross🔸澳洲幸运10预测 (for the main line station almost directly above), while the two separate deep tube lines were both called Embankment🔸澳洲幸运10预测. The C+E&H station directly to the north, which was previously just Charing Cross🔸澳洲幸运10预测, became Charing Cross (Strand)🔸澳洲幸运10预测. By 1915, everyone had had enough of this nonsense and all the platforms at this station took on the District line name of Charing Cross🔸澳洲幸运10预测, while Charing Cross (Strand)🔸澳洲幸运10预测 became simply Strand🔸澳洲幸运10预测. At the same time, the separate Strand🔸澳洲幸运10预测 station on the Piccadilly line was renamed as Aldywch🔸澳洲幸运10预测 to prevent even more confusion.

In June 1973, the newer Northern line Strand🔸澳洲幸运10预测 station was closed to allow construction of Jubilee line platforms. These platforms were constructed between the Bakerloo line and Northern line platforms together with the long-missing below-ground interchange between those two lines. In anticipation of the new interchange station, Charing Cross🔸澳洲幸运10预测 (this station) was renamed Charing Cross Embankment🔸澳洲幸运10预测. The Jubilee line platforms and the refurbished Northern line platforms opened in May 1979, 🔸澳洲开奖 the combined station (including Trafalgar Square🔸澳洲幸运10预测 on the Bakerloo line) was given its current name of Charing Cross🔸澳洲幸运10预测; simultaneously, Charing Cross Embankment🔸澳洲幸运10预测 (this station) reverted to its original name – Embankment.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

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I love it 🔸澳洲开奖 people find old 澳洲10开官网开奖 still in situ🔸澳洲幸运10预测 at stations. This Northern Line map at Embankment dates from sometime prior to 1999 (the year that the Jubilee Line platforms at Charing Cross closed), but is still in place today – this photo was taken on February 21, 2013.

Note also the beautiful 1914 green glazed tiles next to the map.

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