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I assume that the date of 1946 came from the LT Museum, but it is wrong. The new Aldgate East station pictured here came into use in October 1938, so I suspect this was taken just prior to that.

On the header page for the collection it states The images in this set were taken from ZSPC 11/256: The Railway Gazette: Improving London's Transport (Special Number of the Railway Gazette) dated 1946

The date of 1946 is obviously the date of publication in Railway Gazette, but it cannot be the date the photo was taken. Aldgate East station was rebuilt on a new site and brought into use in October 1938. The rebuiling involved lowering the track through the station. While the work was going on the tracks were carried on a tressle. In this photo you can see the old track on the tressle in the background, with the new track at a lower level in the foreground. Thus, the photo must have been taken while the lowering of the track was in progress, so cannot be later than October 1938 and was probably not much earlier.

Yes, one of the 1930s style escalators built by Waygood-Otis for the Underground. I'll need to think hard if this is one of the reconstructed central area stations, where these replaced lifts, or one of the new extension stations (such as the Piccadilly line north of Finsbury Park in 1932/2). The design was wonderful - bronze toned metalwork, and varnished timber side panels, and those wonderful Charles Holden designed uplighters. Very few now survive on the system - the uplighters were sadly mostly removed in the 1970s and '80s but a few stations do still have them, including St Johns Wood and Southgate. The timber panels and step pallets were replaced, wholesale, following the tragic Kings Cross escalator fire of 1987 and subsequent new fire legislation.

**great shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing

beautiful composition. incredible shot

The more I consider this it could be Leicester Square station, the escalators here went into service in early 1935.

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