Show Notes
In our first episode, we’ve opened our bag of London Underground station names and drawn out Hatton Cross. Opened in 1975 on the Piccadilly line extension towards Heathrow Airport, it was at the time the 279th station on the Underground, the highest number ever on the network.
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References
The Piccadilly Line - A Brief History by Charles Edward Lee (London Regional Transport 1973)
The Piccadilly Tube: The First Hundred Years by Mike Horne (Capital Transport Publishing 2007)
The Piccadilly Line an Illustrated History by Desmond Croome (Capital Transport Publishing 1998)
Rails Through the Clay: A History of London's Tube Railways by Alan Arthur Jackson and Desmond F. Croome (Capital Transport Publishing; 2nd edition 1993)
A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land by Joshua Abbott (Unbound Publishing 2020)
Underground Movement by Paul Moss (Capital Transport Publishing 2000)
Building London's Underground by Antony Badsey-Ellis (Capital Transport Publishing 2016)
Underground Architecture by David Lawrence (Capital Transport Publishing 1994)
Tube Station Trivia by Geoff Marshall (Capital Transport Publishing 2018)
The Moving Metropolis: A History of London's Transport Since 1800 by David Lawrence (Laurence King Publishing; second edition 2015)
Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Tamsin Dillon, Will Self, Mark Wallinger, Marina Warner, Christian Wolmar, and Louise Coysh (Art/Books 2014)
Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam (The History Press 2015)
What's in a Name?: Origins of Station Names on the London Underground by Cyril M Harris (Capital Transport Publishing; 4th edition 2001)
The London Underground - A Diagrammatic History by Douglas Rose (Capital Transport Publishing; 2nd edition 2007, latest edition 2016)
Extension of the Piccadilly Line from Hounslow West to Heathrow Central by D.G.Jobling and A.C.Lyons (Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers May 1976)
Pastscape: https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1311086
Modernism in Metroland: http://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/hatton-cross-station.html
Underground Idiom guide: http://content.tfl.gov.uk/station-design-idiom-2.pdf
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