TUBE STATION.
TO BE REOPENED.
CLOSED NEARLY 40 YEARS.
WOW AIR RAID SHELTER.
(Special.—By Air MaU.»
LOXDOX, December 2,
The first tube station world— that at King William Street, London, which has been closed for nearly 40 years—will provide one of the safest air-raid shelter in London for about 1500 city office workers.
The station, the first of its kind ever built, was between 1890 and 1900 -.the busy terminus of the old City and South London Tube. Since 1900 the station, half dismantled, has mouldered in the darkness, it« onlv visitors occasional London transport officials concerned with pumping river seepage from the tunnel.
To make access easier and provide a second exit, a new 80ft shaft has been sunk. The final step will ibe the building of watertight bulkheads in the two tunnels which run from tfte station, to eliminate danger of flooding from the river should a bomb fracture the tunnels.
Then the tracks and platforms of the station will be floored over, and a second floor built. Air-conditioning equipment, auxiliary lighting and pumping plant will be provided. By the time the shelter is ready something like £20,000 will have been spent on it.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 5
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