PICCADILLY CIRCUS.
A WONDERFUL TUBE STATION. LONDON, December 10. Piccadilly Circus underground sta iion, the most wonderful in (he world ipens to-day. It is a city of light in London clay, with seven subways, vhich occupied four years in being built. Tin' circus is a hollow shell, over hich teeming traffic swirls around in i circle. It has often be< n called th. centre of the world, borne on the diouiders of a subterranean Atlas. There is an imposing array ot auto matic ticket machines change kiosks liais indicating the trains, telephone cabinets, lamp columns, eleven escalators, and numerous staircases. The station cost half a million sterling, and will handle fifty million pa s‘ligers yearly. Every spadeful of clay was handing, and removed through a shaft only eighteen feet wide, ninety-two deep, it the rate of a thousand tons month
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Grey River Argus, 12 December 1928, Page 3
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