Shepherd's Bush on the Central Line - another platform?
For the first time ever I entered the Central Line at Shepherd's Bush. Just
before I went down the last set of stairs to the platform, I saw a closed exit and what looked like a tunnel going across a set of tracks. As I got down to the eastbound platform, I could see thru the metal grating what looked like another platform/tunnel but about 6/ feet higher than the platform I was on. Could see power cables etc. Any idea what this is? Thanks, G |
Shepherd's Bush on the Central Line - another platform?
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:46:34 +0100, "Gerard McGovern"
wrote: For the first time ever I entered the Central Line at Shepherd's Bush. Just before I went down the last set of stairs to the platform, I saw a closed exit and what looked like a tunnel going across a set of tracks. As I got down to the eastbound platform, I could see thru the metal grating what looked like another platform/tunnel but about 6/ feet higher than the platform I was on. Could see power cables etc. Any idea what this is? I would hazard a guess that they're the old lift landings. SB/C had two extra electro-hydraulic lifts added at the rear of the ticket hall a couple of years after the station first opened. -- Nick Cooper [Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!] The London Underground at War: http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...ra/lu/tuaw.htm 625-Online - classic British television: http://www.625.org.uk 'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic: http://www.thingstocome.org.uk |
Shepherd's Bush on the Central Line - another platform?
"Gerard McGovern" wrote in message
... Any idea what this is? I asked this same question a couple of years ago. http://tinyurl.com/r9m4 -- John Rowland - Spamtrapped Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood. That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line - It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes |
Shepherd's Bush on the Central Line - another platform?
For the first time ever I entered the Central Line at Shepherd's Bush. Just before I went down the last set of stairs to the platform, I saw a closed exit and what looked like a tunnel going across a set of tracks. This is the access to one of the two former lift landings. The other lift landing now serves as a passageway leading to the emergency staircase, which (unusually) are built in part of a former *lift* shaft. The original emergency staircase shaft, and some of the lift shafts, have been severed by the escalator shaft, which runs right through where they used to be. As I got down to the eastbound platform, I could see thru the metal grating what looked like another platform/tunnel but about 6/ feet higher than the platform I was on. Could see power cables etc. Any idea what this is? This is a draught-relief heading, which connects to the disused passageway you mentioned initially, and, therefore, to one of the former lift shafts which hasn't been cut through by the escalator shaft. |
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