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b/w glass neg, disused King William Street Underground station, by Topical Press, 1930

© TfL

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Reference number
1998/75394
Description
King William Street Underground station, City & South London Railway (C&SLR) which opened 18 December 1890, closed 24 February 1900. Interior view taken at the now disused station looking along a narrow central island platform enclosed within a semi-cylindrical brick tunnel. In the midground, a narrow wooden signal cabin rises above the platform, supported on stilts with a wooden stairway leading to a single door. The top of the cabinreaches the roof of the tunnel chamber. Rusty semaphore signals hang from the ceiling in the foreground. A wheelbarrow stands foreground right.
Photographer
Dates
8 Jul 1930
Collection
Object type
  • B/w glass neg
Photograph number
U6868
Location
Topics
Completeness
58%