Underground Extensions and Improvements : Supplement to the Railway Gazette : 18 November 1932 : cover
A special supplement, issued as part of the Railway Gazette for 18 November 1932, looking primarily at the Piccadilly line extensions undertaken by the then private London Electric Railways, part of the Underground Group. The scheme, that saw the Piccadilly line extended north in tunnels and on surface tracks from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters and westwards from Hammersmith along adapted District Railway tracks, was mostly funded by way of Government Treasury loans as part of Unemployment relief. There were also significant modernisations of certain extisting central area Piccadilly line stations in connection with the scheme as well as new, additional, trains.
The supplement looks as the construction and civil engineering of both tunnels and stations, fitting out of both railway and passenger infrastructure as well as architecture. There are numerous adverts for suppliers to the scheme such as on the cover; Charles Brand & Son were the main civil engineering contractors for the tunnelling north of Finsbury Park to Arnos Grove as seen here. This included stations at Manor House, Wood Green, Turnpike Lane and Bounds Green.
These works were the last major project delivered by the Underground Group prior to the formation of the London Passenger Transport Board - London Transport - in 1933.
Underground Extensions and Improvements : Supplement to the Railway Gazette : 18 November 1932 : cover
A special supplement, issued as part of the Railway Gazette for 18 November 1932, looking primarily at the Piccadilly line extensions undertaken by the then private London Electric Railways, part of the Underground Group. The scheme, that saw the Piccadilly line extended north in tunnels and on surface tracks from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters and westwards from Hammersmith along adapted District Railway tracks, was mostly funded by way of Government Treasury loans as part of Unemployment relief. There were also significant modernisations of certain extisting central area Piccadilly line stations in connection with the scheme as well as new, additional, trains.
The supplement looks as the construction and civil engineering of both tunnels and stations, fitting out of both railway and passenger infrastructure as well as architecture. There are numerous adverts for suppliers to the scheme such as on the cover; Charles Brand & Son were the main civil engineering contractors for the tunnelling north of Finsbury Park to Arnos Grove as seen here. This included stations at Manor House, Wood Green, Turnpike Lane and Bounds Green.
These works were the last major project delivered by the Underground Group prior to the formation of the London Passenger Transport Board - London Transport - in 1933.