- Sudbury Town tube station
Sudbury Town is a
London Underground station on the Uxbridge branch of thePiccadilly Line . The station is between Sudbury Hill and Alperton. It is located on Station Approach a short distance from the junction of Bridgewater Road (A4005) and Harrow Road (A404). The forecourt of the station is known as Station Crescent. The station is inTravelcard Zone 4 .About 350m to the north is Sudbury & Harrow Road
National Rail station.History
Sudbury Town station was opened on
28 June 1903 by the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR, now theDistrict Line ) on its new extension to South Harrow from Park Royal & Twyford Abbey.cite book
last=Rose
first=Douglas
title=The London Underground, A Diagrammatic History
year=1999
publisher=Douglas Rose/Capital Transport
isbn=1-85414-219-4]This new extension was, together with the existing tracks back to Acton Town, the first section of the Underground's surface lines to be electrified and operate electric instead of steam trains. [http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/district.html#dates Clive's Underground Line Guides, District Line, Dates] ] The Deep level tube lines open at that time (
City & South London Railway ,Waterloo & City Railway andCentral London Railway ) had been electrically powered from the start.The original station building was demolished in 1930 and 1931 and replaced by a new station in preparation for the handover of the branch from the District Line to the Piccadilly Line. The new station was designed by
Charles Holden in a modernEurope an style using brick,reinforced concrete and glass. Like the stations at Sudbury Hill to the north and Alperton to the south as well as others that Holden designed elsewhere for the east and west Piccadilly Line extensions such as Acton Town and Oakwood, Sudbury Town station features a tall block-like ticket hall rising above a low horizontal structure that contains station facilities and shops. The brick walls of the ticket hall are punctuated with panels ofclerestory windows and the structure is capped with a flat concrete slab roof. Some of the original station signage uses a variation of the standard London Underground Johnstontypeface with smallserif s. This 'petit-serif' typeface was developed by Holden withPercy Delf Smith .On
4 July 1932 , the Piccadilly Line was extended to run west of its original terminus at Hammersmith sharing the route with the District Line to Ealing Common. From Ealing Common to South Harrow, the District Line was replaced by the Piccadilly Line.The station has recently been refurbished.
ervices
The typical off-peak service is a train in each direction every ten minutes. Half of northbound trains terminate at
Rayners Lane tube station and the other half continue to the terminus of the line at Uxbridge.External links
* [http://photos.ltmcollection.org London Transport Museum Photographic Archive]
**ltmcollection|6e/i0000k6e.jpg|Sudbury Town station, 1926
**ltmcollection|73/9884373.jpg|New station building after opening, 1931
**ltmcollection|20/9911920.jpg|Booking hall, 1931
**ltmcollection|37/9931937.jpg|View of platforms and main building, 1932
**ltmcollection|ye/i00001ye.jpg|Station sign showing 'petit-serif' variant of Johnston, 2001
* [http://www.charlesholden.com CharlesHolden.com]
** [http://www.charlesholden.com/html/charlesholden_gallery_pages/SudburyTown_1.htm Sudbury Town station]
** [http://www.charlesholden.com/html/charlesholden_gallery_pages/SudburyTown_3.htm View of platform]References
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