Thread: Victorian Tiling at Embankment
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Old February 17th 08, 10:36 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Victorian Tiling at Embankment
Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
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(lonelytraveller) 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?

Given that the Northern Line opened in 1907, I doubt it's actually
Victorian. Edwardian I might believe.

According to Tim Demuth's "The Spread of London's Underground" the
Charing Cross Euston & Hampstead Railway (later to be the Northern Line
Charing Cross branch) reached Embankment from Charing Cross (later
Strand) on 6/4/1914 - so not even Edwardian.

Peter Beale
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