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?

On Feb 15, 11:07 pm, lonelytraveller
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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?

I am going to go and have a look at it right now.

"lonelytraveller" wrote in
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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?

Surely there's Victorian tiling in all (most) underground stations,
undernath all of the modern **** that stuck on top

tim

On 16 Feb, 12:23, "tim \(not at home\)"
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"lonelytraveller" wrote in
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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?

Surely there's Victorian tiling in all (most) underground stations,
undernath all of the modern **** that stuck on top

tim

But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have
been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next
to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern
line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful.

On Feb 16, 12:30*pm, lonelytraveller
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On 16 Feb, 12:23, "tim \(not at home\)"
wrote:

"lonelytraveller" wrote in
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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?

Surely there's Victorian tiling in all (most) underground stations,
undernath all of the modern **** that stuck on top

tim

But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have
been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next
to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern
line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful.

I'm not quite picturing all this. There would be nothing at Bakerloo/
Northern level till about 1906 or so would there?

Do you mean that there was a deep passageway predating those lines?

On 16 Feb, 12:30, lonelytraveller
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But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have
been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next
to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern
line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful.

Don't forget that most deep stations had lifts in the beginning.
Staircases were converted to escalator machine chambers also.

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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.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On 16 Feb, 15:47, MIG wrote:
On Feb 16, 12:30 pm, lonelytraveller



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On 16 Feb, 12:23, "tim \(not at home\)"
wrote:

"lonelytraveller" wrote in
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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?

Surely there's Victorian tiling in all (most) underground stations,
undernath all of the modern **** that stuck on top

tim

But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have
been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next
to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern
line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful.

I'm not quite picturing all this. There would be nothing at Bakerloo/
Northern level till about 1906 or so would there?

Do you mean that there was a deep passageway predating those lines?

No. It would have appeared with the Northern line there. From a
distance it looks like the tiling is similar to the bakerloo line
station at Edgeware road - those decorative green tiles about mid way
up the walls - it would look glorious if it was cleaned up and on
show.

But it definitely looks older than the escalator. Anyway, I'm fairly
certain the escalator isn't original, on account of the very awkward
access to the clearly old spiral staircase adjacent to it at the top
landing.

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message
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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.


Built using a stockpile of Victorian tiles? Perhaps they bought a job lot
cheap after Victoria's death... But seriously, how quickly do architectural
styles/materials change?

Paul S

On 17 Feb, 16:32, " wrote:
On 16 Feb, 12:30, lonelytraveller

wrote:

But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have
been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next
to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern
line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful.

Don't forget that most deep stations had lifts in the beginning.
Staircases were converted to escalator machine chambers also.

A lift is possible, but where would it have gone? The passage is
directly beneath the westbound platform of the circle/district, and a
lift shaft there would have to have cut through the platforms, making
them rather awkward. Now there clearly used to be a lift of some sort
on the northern side, as the escalator on the northern side from the
under-circle-line passages to the ticket hall passes through a space
that is clearly circular, and cut-through lift-shaft like. But I can't
fathom where the lift could have gone to, since there doesn't appear
to be any passage on the northern side of the northern-bakerloo link.

Its more like it goes somewhere that could then go to a lift perhaps.
Perhaps it linked up with the other side of the spiral staircase?

That spiral staircase is a bit of a curiosity really - why is it
situated so far to the south of the passage linking bakerloo to
northern line, but only go high enough to emerge beneath the circle
line platforms; if it was intended to only go that high, it would have
been better to put it next to the linking passage, if it was set so
far south for the purpose of reaching the surface, why doesn't it.