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Gants Hill station has an almost cathedral atmosphere, with the platforms in side aisles separated from the main body by a series of pillars. The station reminds me of pictures I have seen of stations on the Moscow underground system.

This is a pan east of Image The same story applies here. One of the high mast streetlighting installations can be seen in full here, with three disc-shaped lanterns on it. The grey lamp posts in the background with white (Philips Iridium) lanterns on them seen on the A1400 Woodford Avenue in the background were installed in March as part of the scheme, where the road had a new central reservation installed. The A12 Eastern Avenue has also seen the first five streetlight installations replaced with Philips Iridium lanterns, but with two lanterns installed on each column and on the central reservation rather than down the sides of the road. View taken looking northwest from Cranbrook Road North.

Construction of Gants Hill originally began in the 1930s but was suspended during the Second World War. The station was designed by Charles Holden. His design for Gants Hill was inspired by many of the stations on the Moscow Metro. During the war, the station was used as an air raid shelter and the tunnels as a munitions factory. The station opened on 14th December 1947. Gants Hill is the easternmost station on the London Underground system to be entirely below ground. Here the London-bound platform is to the left where the next station is Redbridge, and the Hainault-bound platform is to the right where the next station is Newbury Park.

View eastward, the London Underground station being on the underground section of the Central Line Hainault Loop, opened 14/12/47 but built before the Second World War and used as a linear factory by Plessey Electronics.

Clarence Avenue in Gants Hill, north east London, on a dull and wet May evening.