Eastcote Underground Station (Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Eastcote Underground Station (Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines) / hugh llewelyn
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Eastcote Underground Station (Metropolitan and Piccadilly Lines) 13 April, 2024. The original station, a very basic halt, was opened in May 1906 as Eastcote Halt by the Metropolitan Railway (MR) on its extension from Harrow-on-the-Hill to Uxbridge, which had opened in July 1904 with Ruislip as the only intermediate stop. In March 1910 the Metropolitan District Railway (commonly known as the District Railway - DR) extended its services from South Harrow via a new link to Rayners Lane and thence over Metropolitan tracks to Uxbridge, serving Eastcote Halt. In July 1932 Piccadilly Railway services were extended from Hammersmith to South Harrow, rather curiously leaving an isolated stub of District services to operate from South Harrow to Uxbridge via Eastcote until October 1933 when they were finally replaced by an extension of Piccadilly services to Uxbridge. As house building increased in what had been a very rural locality, the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB formed in 1933) decided to replace the halt with a new station. The replacement station, known simply as Eastcote, was completed in 1939. It was designed by the LPTB’s consulting architect Charles Holden in the European Moderne style, which Holden had adopted following his 1930 architectural tour to Scandinavia, Holland and Germany which had persuaded him to abandon his earlier style. In addition, the building has a large single window on the frontage and rear in conrast to the narrower windows Holden usually employed.Although influenced by his ‘prototype’ design for Sudbury Town, Eastcote represents an evolution of the Sudbury Town style, presenting a lighter and more Scandinavian character. Holden adopted a block or single cube shape for Eastcote rather than the double cube design of Sudbury Town station. Moreover, he improved on the construction technique employed for Sudbury Town where the brick walls were load-bearing by erecting a steel structure for Eastcote after which the brick walls were built, which had only a limited load-bearing function. The station is listed Grade II.Pictured is the frontage. Note the associated shops project out from the station rather than extend sideways as was usually Holden's style. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-04-13 15:11:32 |
| 撮影者 | hugh llewelyn , Keynsham, UK |
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| 撮影地 | Hillingdon, England, UK 地図 |
| カメラ | SM-A145R , samsung |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.2 |
| 焦点距離 | 51 deg 34' 35.25" N |