West Street subway station in 1966
Introduction
The photograph on this page of West Street subway station in 1966 by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
West Street subway station in 1966
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 24 Mar 1966
An incredible difference from Image which shows the same station in its modern guise. In 1966 the original 1896 stock was still in service; although the condition of the visible paintwork is commendably smart, it was always said that the side next to the wall was never repainted, as no-one ever saw it. All the stations had a central (island) platform so it was always the same side of the train the passengers saw. The diminutive size of the train is readily apparent from the size of the driver in his cab. The quality of lighting on the station was very poor in comparison so that the only chance of a picture was to use flash - bulbs in those days of course, and expensive on top of the meagre allowance of film which a student could afford.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
55.849193
Longitude
-4.26652