East Putney Underground station
Introduction
The photograph on this page of East Putney Underground station by Nigel Cox as part of the Geograph project.
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East Putney Underground station
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 28 May 2008
The station dates from 1889 and was originally built by the Metropolitan Railway. It is in the centre of a Y-shaped arrangement of elevated railways. The railway on the east side of the Y is now disused, and District Line trains use the elevated route in the photograph which forms the western arm of the Y. The words 'East Putney' can just be picked out in relief at the top of the white buttress on the right. The van belongs to Tube Lines, yet another body with responsibility for running some part of the railway infrastructure, in this case providing maintenance services for trains and infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines...
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Image Location
Latitude
51.458517
Longitude
-0.210825