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Location Profile: EARL'S COURT |
Earl's Court is probably one of the most complicated and busy interchanges, certainly on the sub-surface sections of the London Underground network as it serves the District line which from here splinters into five different directions. In addition there is the Piccadilly Line below and of course the Earl's Court Exhibition Centre outside the Warwick Road entrance.
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Substantial amounts of money have recently been poured
into Earl's Court to restore original features and install lift access to the platforms
from the surface. One major benefactor of this work is the lovely original Earl's
Court Road entrance seen left and above left. This opens out onto the busy Earl's Court Road itself (above right) which is one way and usually seems to consist of utter traffic chaos! |
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Enter through the Earl's Court Road entrance and you will find the impressive airy ticket hall (above left) which leads to the massive train shed serving the four platforms of the District Line (above right with two trains of unrefurbished 'D' type stock present) .
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The west end of the platforms (above left with another unrefurbished 'D' stock type train departing) are out in the daylight which makes photography a lot easier. With a large range of possible destinations from Earl's Court District Line services, there exists a now rare feature, the light box destination indicators (above right) which are now a listed feature and have to be preserved in situe despite the advent of more modern technology, but if it works, don't fix it....
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Earl's Court is also served by the Piccadilly Line as it heads out
of the west end and disappears off towards Hammersmith and Heathrow. Like many of the original Piccadilly Line stations from Green Park westwards
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Most of the traffic to Earl's Court is generated by events at the adjacent Exhibition Centre (above right) which is served by a separate exit at the west end of the station in Warwick Road (above left) an example of 1930's Underground architecture and not one of the best examples of its type with its rather top heavy looking structure.
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If you want to walk from Earl's Court Road to Warwick Road without
going through the Station, there is a remarkably quiet side road, Treborvir Road that runs
down the north side. In contrast to the traffic chaos of the two roads at either end, this is an idyllic peaceful little side street with some very nice classic architecture. |