Empty Carriage - Piccadilly Line

I always enjoy taking photography of empty places that are usually populated. This shot was taken at South Ealing London Underground station around midday, so it was a huge surprise that half the carriage was empty. I had to take a shot.

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Fly The Tube, by the agency FCB, 1978 (credit: London Transport Museum) #london #londonunderground #piccadillyline #heathrow

"Late for dinner!"

Took a trip along the #PiccadillyLine the other night. I love these #charlesholden stations. #londonunderground #pixel5 #phonephoto #london #tube

South Kensington was opened by the Metropolitan and the District railways jointly in 1868 as part of thi Inner Circle route. Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opened deep level platforms in 1906. #walkthetube #piccadillyline

Brompton Road was another station which fell victim to lack of footfall. Having opened in 1906, with the enlarged Knightsbridge eating into its catchment area, it closed in 1933. Part of the Leslie Green façade, on Cottage Place, survives. #WalkTheTube #PiccadillyLine.

Hyde Park Corner opened in 1906. The typically Leslie Green building was vacated in the 1930s following the installation of Escalators accessed via a an underpass. The abandoned building is now a hotel.

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Down Street opened in 1907 between Dover Street (now Green Park) and Hyde Park Corner and was closed, due to low patronage, in 1932. If anything it had the opposite problem to York Road - the wealthy Mayfair denizens were not inclined favourably towards public transport #WalkTheTube #PiccadillyLine

Green Park opened as Dover Street in 1906 (the Bakerloo line got here first). It is another Leslie Green joint rebuilt by Holden, in this case in 1933. A feature is made of the many fossils in the stone used by Holden for the above ground shelter #WalkTheTube #PiccadillyLine

Piccadilly Circus. It's entirely underground and not really somewhere you want to hang about. Opened in 1906, it originally had above ground buildings by Leslie Green. Holden redeveloped the site - beneath the statue of Eros - in the late 1920s. #WalkTheTube #PiccadillyLine

Leicester Square, busy, sprawling, Leslie Green. Redundant parts of the original above-ground structure are occupied by an Angus Steak House and well, just don't. Points if you spot the unique Wisden tile. #WalkTheTube #PiccadillyLine

Covent Garden would like you to know that it can't even with your tourist bullshit and could you walk from Holborn or Leicester Square instead, where there are actual escalators mmkay? Also the LT Museum is here and you must go, you must. Covent Garden you see, being on a cramped site, is stuck with lifts for the foreseeable. Many of the Leslie Green stations had flat rooves to permit vertical extension - this is the first encountered today where this has been done #WalkTheTube #piccadillyline

The Aldwych branch is an interesting footnote in the history of the Piccadilly Line. A merger of partially completed schemes resulted in this little branch served by a separate platform at Holborn. It is all a bit complicated. Aldwych was, despite the name on the façade, the name of this station for most of its life. The history of tube stations called Strand will melt your noggin. Closed in the 90s (lifts needed replacing, uneconomical) it is used a lot for filming

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Holborn was another Leslie Green station design opening in 1906. Because of a planning regulation requiring that Southampton Row buildings be stone, Green's usual terracotta was not used. Holborn was remodelled by Holden in the 30s, when escalators were installed. #WalkTheTube #PiccadillyLine

Russell Square. Opened with the other GNP&BR stations in 1906. Designed by you-know-who. #WalkTheTube #PiccadillyLine

The adjacent London Terminii Kings Cross and St.Pancras are served by six tube lines including the Piccadilly. The GNP&BR opened its platforms in 1906. #WalkTheTube #PiccadillyLine

York Road opened in 1906, another Leslie Green design. Traffic levels in what was then a poor industrial area were never high and it was closed in 1932. This remarkable survivor may one day reopen. #WalkTheTube #PiccadillyLine

Caledonian Road, instantly recognisable, with its oxblood tiled façade, as a Leslie Green design. It opened in 1906. #WalkTheTube #PiccadillyLine

Holloway Road ticket windows ♥️♥️♥️ #WalkTheTube #PiccadillyLine

Holloway Road, opened 1906, designed by Leslie Green. It retains many original features including the iconic oxblood tiled façade and two beautiful (and hella rare) ticket hall windows. #WalkTheTube #PiccadillyLine

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