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Description: | This is the exterior view of Wanstead Underground station in May 1950. The station is on the Central line extension from Leytonstone to Newbury Park. Built of grey concrete, it was one of the last on the Underground to be designed by Charles Holden and is very different from his earlier designs. It has been compared to a large ship.
This station was planned before the Second World War, but in 1940 the tunnels below Eastern Avenue built for the Central line extension were converted into a Plessey Company factory for making aircraft components. One of the access shafts was on the site where Wanstead station now stands. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Cityscape | Temporal: | May 1950 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Walter A Curtin | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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