About 25 years in the past, Barons Court docket tube station in west London was painted the fallacious color, and approval has been granted to repaint it the right color — inexperienced.
Station entrance (c) ianVisits
The station opened in 1905 for the District line, and a yr later the Piccadilly line began calling there as nicely. Contained in the ticket corridor, it’s very inexperienced, and the platforms must also be painted in District line colors, however in 1996-97, the station was repainted in a terracotta and maroon paint scheme.
Transport for London (TfL) needs to restore broken and worn elements of the station platforms and, on the identical time, appropriate the paint color mistake from the Nineteen Nineties.
Peeling paint on the platform reveals the unique inexperienced underneath the brown (c) ianVisits
Amusingly, as that required a planning software to allow adjustments to a railway station, TfL needed to be consulted to verify if TfL objected to TfL making adjustments to a TfL property.
TfL expressed no objection to the plans.
The officer’s report stated that the proposed refurbishments of the staircases and platform areas, comprising like-for-like substitute of the timber components within the cover, related works to strengthen the columns, substitute of cracked glazing and polycarbonate sheeting with new glass within the staircase, and common restore and refurbishment, wouldn’t lead to any vital alterations to any heritage belongings.
Following a planning assembly final week, Hammersmith and Fulham Council has accredited plans so work can go forward, and are more likely to happen subsequent yr.
Stairs between platform and ticket corridor (c) ianVisits
There’s additionally an unrelated however more likely to be carried out a the identical time software so as to add cameras within the cover above the platforms — as a part of the Piccadilly line improve programme.
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