The annual tradition of posting a different vintage image each day during advent, and this year, it’s of London’s old railway stations.

Bank Station

Bank Station

Bank tube station opened on 30th July 1900 as the original terminus of the Central line on the London Underground.

Built underneath the main road junction, the central section is surrounded by a corridor, seen above, which links to the staircases up to the pavements.

The station was seriously damaged during WW2 by a direct hit from a bomb.

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2 comments
  1. Andrew says:

    That alignment looks familiar. The sign in the corridor says “keep to the right”. I think the custom these days is generally to walk on the left in corridors, but to stand to the right on escalators.

    • Trevor Haynes says:

      There was a supervisor at this station who was seriously concerned that if KEEP RIGHT signs faced both directions, then people would walk into each other!

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