File talk:London Underground circa 1900.jpg

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The picture claims to be a picture of the London Underground in the 1890's. This cannot be as the picture is of Queen's Road station which was on the Central London Railway (now the Central Line). The picture has been compared with a photograph known to be Queens Road station taken in early 1900 just before it opened. Interestingly, someone has even tagged the picture as a picture of Marble Arch (also on the Central London). It is unlikely as the passenger exit is in the wrong place.

Apart from the absence of the advertising all over the wall, the features are otherwise identical. The passenger 'bridge' over the platform and track; the location of the station name board under the bridge and the position of the 'Way Out' sign over the passenger exit and (most telling of all) the arrangement of the three conduits along the wall and the manner in which they avoid the bridge. One of the really big give-aways that it is on the Central London Railway are the spherical and very bright Crompton electric arc lights along the station. All undergound stations prior to the Central London were rather more dimly gas lit. Sufficiently dim that photography without additional illumination would have been impossible The photograph in question can be found in The Central Line A Short History by M A C Horne (ISBN 1-870354-01-X) on page 16. LiveRail (talk) 16:17, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

The above comment was copied verbatim from the discussion page of the file under its original title of "London Underground circa 1890". The current title is not in dispute, as it is known that the photograph was taken sometime after the station opened in 1900. LiveRail (talk) 13:18, 8 March 2015 (UTC)