Holloway Road tube station, Holloway Road, N7

Image: © Mike Quinn Taken: 18 Jan 2017

The station was constructed by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway and was built with two lift shafts, but only one was ever used for lifts. The second shaft was the site of an experimental spiral escalator which was built by the American inventor of escalators, Jesse W. Reno. The experiment was not successful and was never used by the public. In the 1990s, remains of the escalator equipment were excavated from the base of the lift shaft and stored at the London Transport Museum Depot in Acton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holloway_Road_tube_station . This is one of the best surviving examples of the underground stations designed by Leslie Green for Charles Tyson Yerkes, the entrepreneur responsible for what became the core of the Piccadilly, Bakerloo and Northern (Charing Cross) lines; it also has one of the best surviving interiors. It is Grade II listed https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1195635 . My photos of the tube station are at http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=69223265 .

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