UNDER PICCADILLY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 December 1928, Page 5

UNDER PICCADILLY

A WONDERFUL STATION. i CITY OF LIQpST IN CLAY. TOOK FOUR. YEARS TO BUILD. ! United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright..) —United Service). Received 9.40 a.m. to-day. LONDON. Dec. 10. Piccadilly Circus underground station, the most wonderful in the world, opens to-day. It is a city of light in London clay, with seven subways which occupied four years in being built. The circus is a hollow shell over which teeming traffic swirls round in a circle. It has often been called the centre of the world borne on the shoulders a subterranean Atlas. There is an imposing array- of automatic ticket machines, change kiosks, dials indicating trains, telephone cabinets, lamp columns, Id escalators and numerous staircases. It was stated that the cost was half a million sterling, and the station will handle fifty million passengers yearly. Every spadeful of clay was hand dug and removed through a shaft only eighteen feet wide and ninety-two feet deep at the rate of a thousand tons per month.