UNDERGROUND TRAFFIC

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 31 January 1936, Page 5

UNDERGROUND TRAFFIC

HEAVIEST ON PICCADILLY LINE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 29th January. The crowds that travelled by the services of the London Passenger Transport Board yesterday to witness the funeral procession in London exceeded in numbers those carried during the Jubilee celebrations last year. The heaviest underground traffic was on the Piccadilly line, and in four hours before the time at which the

procession began some 80,000 people arrived at Hyde Park Corner station. The traffic handled at the neighbouring stations of Green Park and Kniglitsbridge was also exceptionally heavy, but the main difficulty of the railway officials was to deal with the traffic at junctions. At times it was found necessary to divert passengers to streets so as to avoid excessive pressure in subways and on platforms. But the vast majority of the hundreds of thousands of people who thronged the Hyde Park section of the funeral procession route arrived on foot, and the congestion was at times so great that the police were unable to keep these station exits free. For a short period certain stations were closed.