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Description: | This 1921 photo shows the old British Museum station in Bloomsbury.
The station was opened by the Central London Railway (C.L.R.) in 1900 and was originally to be called Bloomsbury station. Because the museum was such a tourist attraction, the company changed its decision.
For many years, it was suggested that new platforms could be built at Holborn station to remove the need for an interchange at the British Museum station.
Work finally started on this plan in the 1930s. The reconstruction work at Holborn was completed in 1933 and the British Museum station closed. The surface level building was demolished in 1989. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Cityscape | Temporal: | Aug 1921 - Oct 1921 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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