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Can you identify this tube station from this arty picture
A Canadian posts the following picture he
http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives...222_1471.shtml with the caption: "a metro station in london, england. unfortunately I don't remember the name of the station." And surprisingly none of the copmmenters so far have identified it. OK, there are not many clues to go on, but I thought someone here might have an idea. Vague suggestions so far have been Stamford Brook, Turnham Green, Ravenscourt Park, the "District and Circle line" or "Picadilly line". Have fun, Jonathan |
Can you identify this tube station from this arty picture
My first thought was Barons Court. I hadn't read your "clues" then but this
is in the likely area. Max B "Chailey" wrote in message oups.com... A Canadian posts the following picture he http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives...222_1471.shtml with the caption: "a metro station in london, england. unfortunately I don't remember the name of the station." And surprisingly none of the copmmenters so far have identified it. OK, there are not many clues to go on, but I thought someone here might have an idea. Vague suggestions so far have been Stamford Brook, Turnham Green, Ravenscourt Park, the "District and Circle line" or "Picadilly line". Have fun, Jonathan |
Can you identify this tube station from this arty picture
I think it's Richmond (or possibly Wimbledon). The platform build
looks LSWR/Southern Region to me and then there's the matter of the trainstop lights which you wouldn't get at a through station. THC |
Can you identify this tube station from this arty picture
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Can you identify this tube station from this arty picture
In message .com,
Chailey writes A Canadian posts the following picture he http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives...222_1471.shtml with the caption: "a metro station in london, england. unfortunately I don't remember the name of the station." And surprisingly none of the copmmenters so far have identified it. Without a doubt, it is the District line terminus at Wimbledon. Compare the wall features at the back of the photo with the following: http://ktransit.com/transit/unitedki...district01.jpg -- Paul Terry |
Can you identify this tube station from this arty picture
Its not Wimbledon, the trainstops are the wrong way round. From the
perspective of them it looks like there are three lines as well, Wimbledon only has two. Neill |
Can you identify this tube station from this arty picture
Neillw001 wrote: Its not Wimbledon, the trainstops are the wrong way round. From the perspective of them it looks like there are three lines as well, Wimbledon only has two. There are four Underground tracks at Wimbledon. If you are stood on one platform looking perpendicular to the tracks, you can only see three at any one time. (buffers to left) I--------------------------- track ================ platforms 1/2 I--------------------------- track I--------------------------- track ================ platforms 3/4 I--------------------------- track PhilD -- |
Can you identify this tube station from this arty picture
Paul Terry wrote: In message .com, Chailey writes A Canadian posts the following picture he http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives...222_1471.shtml with the caption: "a metro station in london, england. unfortunately I don't remember the name of the station." And surprisingly none of the copmmenters so far have identified it. Without a doubt, it is the District line terminus at Wimbledon. Compare the wall features at the back of the photo with the following: http://ktransit.com/transit/unitedki...district01.jpg -- Paul Terry But where's that shelter and its pillars? Although otherwise it does look the same though, and I'm sure there's a shelter at Richmond anyway. What's that at the top that looks like a bridge? And why is it just blank white above it? Is it maybe a trick composite? |
Can you identify this tube station from this arty picture
The wall looks the same, the smaller graffiti just above the far
trainstop looks similar and the yellow staining on the wall behind matches up. There should be at least one canopy support in shot though, just about where the vending machine object is. The girder at the top of the picture doesn't match the Wimbledon picture at all either. Neill |
Can you identify this tube station from this arty picture
In message .com, MIG
writes But where's that shelter and its pillars? The canopy is above the two elderly people - the dark brown bit is the inside of the canopy, behind the couple, while the white bit above that is the side of the canopy facing the photographer. The pillars would be immediately to the left and right of the image, just off camera (although it may be that on the left side the canopy attaches to the station building - it certainly does at some point). What's that at the top that looks like a bridge? And why is it just blank white above it? As above - its just the canopy. The two shots look different because of the foreshortening effect - this is very pronounced in the shot with the train, because it is almost head on. This makes the pillars look much closer than they really are. The perspective effect can be seen by comparing the wall in the two photos. In the train photo it is fairly clear that the concrete lower half is surmounted by a handrail - there is a walkway there, with a brickwall behind it. In the elderly-couple photo, there is no sense of distance perspective - it looks more as if the brick wall is built directly on top of the concrete portion. In addition to the points mentioned by Neill, look at the long pipe behind the couple, that gently slopes up from left to right, and then disappears at the right-most trainstop. This is the same pipe that you can see sloping up (and then dropping down) to the left of the train in the other photo. -- Paul Terry |
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